Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People seem to want health economists , up to a point , and even epidemiologists because they boast a set of tools to offer managers and doctors for opening what you called the black box . |
| 2 | Perhaps even more surprising is to meet a Syrian taxi driver in Damascus describing what he heard the other day on Israel Radio . |
| 3 | Moore says that those who try to identify good with some complex property are committing what he calls the naturalistic fallacy . |
| 4 | It happened with the same naturalness that had first drawn them together , and in taking her he felt the greatest fulfilment of his life . |
| 5 | The whole world fell away beneath us as we soared upwards , and leaning back and enjoying it I watched the little valley unfold along its twisting length until I could see away into the main Dale with the great hills billowing round and white into the dark clouds . |
| 6 | ‘ When , some time later , he and I discussed who might take over the responsibility for producing it I rejected the traditional drama types , who did the children 's serials , and said that I wanted somebody , full of vinegar , who 'd be prepared to break rules in doing the show . |
| 7 | Two thousand years ago , the biblical farmer was tormented by tares and Virgil was denouncing what he called the lazy thistle . |
| 8 | They follow a common scriptural tradition , Christians seeing what they call the Old Testament fulfilled in the New Testament , and Islam seeing both fulfilled in the Qur'an . |
| 9 | People had been telling him he had the wrong attitude since he was potty trained . |