Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking carefully he crossed the room and pulled it clear of what lay beneath it . |
| 2 | The glassy grain of water looking upward I see the bed |
| 3 | just , he lives in somebody 's basement of a house , and like , in return for living there he fills the guy 's freezer up with lobster , crab , you know |
| 4 | Trembling violently he swallowed the brandy and ate the food like a hunted animal , looking around him all the time for danger . |
| 5 | Now if you 're a rheumatism person you will know that you have difficulty getting out of bed in the morning unless you do something , and this is the way of doing it , move in the bed before , get the circulation going so it moves the acid so that you can move . |
| 6 | 1.6 There are special rules of pleading in RSC Ord 18 , r7A ( see Appendix C ) that must be observed : the party who is facing a pleaded conviction can not simply traverse his opponent 's pleading otherwise he runs the risk of having his own pleading struck out . |
| 7 | Clinging together they followed the line of the keelson to the forward hatch . |
| 8 | In the past China had been plundered by westerners eager to exploit large markets and in doing so they brought the nation to its knees . |
| 9 | The resulting contract was contingent upon the society 's decision to proceed with obtaining a valuation , and by doing so they purified the contract . |
| 10 | This results in the open field lines convecting polewards under the magnetic ‘ tension ’ force , and in doing so they accelerate the magnetosheath ions that flow along them and cross the magnetopause . |
| 11 | Bakewell bred not only for meat but for as much tallow as possible and in doing so he improved the Longhorn but at the same time destroyed its future prospects . |
| 12 | In doing so he reduced the influence of the Takeshita faction , hitherto the largest internal faction within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) . |
| 13 | In doing so it saves the dieter from the common curse of constipation , mainly caused by lack of bulk in normal slimming diets . |
| 14 | Interestingly , although neoclassicism allowed individual differences to influence punishments on the grounds of justice , in doing so it paved the way for the later , positivist conception of the causes and treatment of crime . |
| 15 | It shifts interaction between pupils away from casual social conversation in the direction of discussion about the task in hand , and in doing so it reduces the amount of time spent by the teacher on matters of routine . |
| 16 | your movements coming outwards you stretch the skin and you make even more lines come around that area . |
| 17 | It was quite a long way , and coming home she let the pony trot while she ran beside me . |
| 18 | And of course when he was coming home in the middle of the night from afternoons , biking it and the one night they came he was coming home you know the finger post at Pelsall ? |
| 19 | Erm the the er Professor Lock was saying well you know the way you get your footloose industry is to present them with an absolute guarantee of planning permission . |
| 20 | When the milk began coming again he hoped the aberration was over . |
| 21 | Singing loudly he entered the living-room and called for his wife to bring him something to drink . |
| 22 | Nodding absently he opened the palm of his hand to gesture towards Tran Van Lung 's sea-green gown . |
| 23 | Before adding or taking away we get the number on the bottom to be the same right . |
| 24 | In playing together we re-found the freedom and spontaneous creativity of our wise-child-selves . |
| 25 | The priest and all on the altar need to be seen singing otherwise it gives the impression that singing does not matter . |
| 26 | And er , it went wrong so she took her daughter 's out of her bedroom and using hers and when our John came down she were telling about it so he said oh I 'll take it this Sunday and I 'll fix it for you , of course with John working away he took the television |