Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [v-ing] they [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
| 2 | The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road . |
| 3 | The red glow from the furnaces fell across the treadmills , turning the steel mesh to angry crimson , bathing the creatures inside them to eerie , unnatural life , blending and merging them with the machinery , until it was very nearly impossible to tell where the treadmills ended and the human creatures began … |
| 4 | Urgently Ramsay directed them , all but physically pushing and prodding them into the approximate shape of a great wedge . |
| 5 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
| 6 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 7 | In a busy laboratory large numbers of Petri dishes can accumulate quite rapidly and the most convenient and safest way of storing and retrieving them from the incubator is to stack the dishes on narrow Perspex trays which extend the depth of the incubator . |
| 8 | The record at the LEA level is , as we have seen earlier , not a promising one , since LEAs have been much more effective at producing curriculum policies than at monitoring and implementing them at the school level . |
| 9 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |