Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say , you wanted find out something and you , you 've got ta one , one 's got ta give so much weight away to something well gallop me galloping them in extraordinary ways to find out whether he 's any good or not . |
| 2 | This illusion was achieved by slightly blinding them with blue lamps facing them and lowering dummy bodies from the flies . |
| 3 | He wanted to finish reading the works of Walter Machin that were available , perhaps have a good look at Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's autobiography and other writings , talk to people who knew Machin — grilling senior citizens in pubs , as he put it to himself : filling them with weak beer to stimulate their weaker memories . |
| 4 | Having got rid of his shirts in this way , he was reduced to replacing them with crude garments made out of sacking . |
| 5 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 6 | The most sophisticated cooks use lemon grass whole or coarsely cut when preparing the stock for a soup or sauce and remove it when the dish is almost complete , replacing it with fine slices to focus and refresh the flavour . |
| 7 | Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home . |
| 8 | In fact , Owen misinterpreted the remains of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon , presenting them as gigantic lizards standing on four legs . |
| 9 | Mr Morgan and his organ releasing them into hysterical laughter had anaesthetized the horror of the past . |
| 10 | Even so , the image of Chung Hu-yan waking him with awful news persisted , until he realised what it was . |
| 11 | He goes to great lengths to maintain these contacts , telephoning them at regular intervals to find out how things are going , to express a genuine interest in their welfare , to see if he can help in any way . |
| 12 | Providing them with decent mountains to look at , and bacteria to , to , to , to make cheese with . ’ |
| 13 | Having the opportunity to do some work from home is of great assistance providing me with extra flexibility to help balance and organise my professional and domestic commitments . ’ |
| 14 | A series of publications subjecting him to merciless ridicule appeared in 1691 — note the date . |
| 15 | The fact that the efficiency of rivets was in no way improved by capping them with precious metal provides another indication of the limitations of material factors in accounting for technical innovation . |
| 16 | It can be extended for the specific purpose of retraining you for new work provided that any agreement to do so : |
| 17 | D is not required to prove any of this : in a murder trial , if there is sufficient evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , the judge is bound to leave provocation to the jury , and the burden of disproving it beyond reasonable doubt lies upon the prosecution . |
| 18 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 19 | If the advantages of the relative detachment of non-executives are to be maximised , there is merit in distancing them from non-contractual issues involving directly managed units . |
| 20 | Not until after the last Ice Age had remodelled the valleys north of the plain , overdeepening them , then damming them with morainic debris to form the great lakes of Maggiore , Como and Garda , did man evolve to the point where he left a permanent imprint on the landscape . |
| 21 | Easily Accessible : Several walks taking you through unspoilt countryside begin near the hotel . |
| 22 | It was a bulky volume to carry around and my RAF friends used to rib me about my " vest pocket edition " , but I had resolved to keep reading it in spare moments to remind me of my real life . |
| 23 | ‘ I congratulate myself , in fact , on the idea of nominating him as head boy designate , ’ pursued Edward Crumwallis . |
| 24 | The apothecary 's rose grows at Provins in France and has the property that it keeps its perfume even when the petals have been dried and powdered , thus making it of great use to add to medicinal compounds and ensuring that they are pleasant and soothing . |
| 25 | As he spoke , he was drawing back slightly , capturing her hand and carrying it to tumescent flesh pulsing with vigorous life . |
| 26 | Paul Keywood , 13 , and his 11-year-old brother Nathan saved the little boy 's life after discovering him in freezing conditions wrapped in only a towel . |
| 27 | The dependency structure representing the reading was converted into a network form , and enriched by conflating it with definitional information associated with the word senses it contained . |
| 28 | They called a protest strike for Aug. 21-23 , leaving it to individual parties to decide on a boycott . |
| 29 | So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning . |
| 30 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |