Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 32 | Passing him in the cramped area of the cockpit , her bare leg brushed against the coarseness of his knee . |
| 33 | He paused , eyeing her in the clinical way she 'd come to recognise . |
| 34 | Reagan was shown a picture of Calero meeting him in the Oval Office ; he did not know who he was . |
| 35 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
| 36 | She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " . |
| 37 | Right : Protect your outdoor pool from the rigours of winter by enclosing it in a Norwegian log chalet . |
| 38 | I took the other half , inspecting it in a similar manner . |
| 39 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 40 | Nevertheless , she set about searching it in a methodical fashion , discovering in the process just what she had expected : nothing . |
| 41 | The committee looks forward to seeing you in the coming year . |
| 42 | Well thanks very much for that Dave I 'll look forward to seeing you in the near future . |
| 43 | Tissues respond to the presence of tubercle bacilli by forming a fibrous wall round the organisms and encasing them in the small nodules called tubercles . |
| 44 | Some of the prescribed topics may not at first seem particularly appealing , especially if they have not been covered in school before , but avenues can be explored for presenting them in an interesting way . |
| 45 | State any biases you would expect to find , and what measures you would suggest ( either in the planning of the enquiry or in the statistical analysis ) for remedying them in the following situations . |
| 46 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 47 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 48 | The manipulation of this internal world may provide a safe basis for trying out combinations and ideas prior to , and sometimes instead of , attempting them in the real world . |
| 49 | He had a gift for coming up with innovative ideas , suggesting links that others would never dream of , and testing them in a rough way to see if they were flawed or might instead lead somewhere . |
| 50 | As there are four men surrounding you in a close semicircle , you must aim for their weak point — the smaller of the two end men . |
| 51 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 52 | On occasions a fortunate , or bemused , beneficiary received no less than three charters each confirming him in the legitimate enjoyment of the same right . |
| 53 | At this point , the trustees decided that the future of the church would be best secured by vesting it in the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 54 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 55 | In its origin [ Christianity ] presents to man and woman a glorious picture of sexual integrity : the Son of God who has become man and flesh , knowing from inside his Father 's work and perfecting it in the total self-giving of himself , not only of his spiritual but precisely also of his physical powers , giving not only to one individual but to all . |
| 56 | Anyway a plant , we think , for bigger gardens but if you can get away with growing it in a small space where cutting it back by all means do because it is quite a pretty thing . |
| 57 | The writer of the previous essay plan has demonstrated advanced skills by selecting the information or facts relevant to the question and presenting it in a logical argument . |
| 58 | Manipulations can vary from simple windowing of the video , presenting it in a small area of the screen , to sophisticated visual processing to produce the spectacular special effects familiar from broadcast television . |
| 59 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
| 60 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |