Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our timber floor is made of attractive boards in good condition , so I 'm wondering if there are any problems with staining them and then finishing them using a clear varnish . |
| 2 | So all they 're asking really as you 're the landlords , do you have any objection to them building a new er mower store ? |
| 3 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 4 | Of course , we could scatter many billions of spores , thereby reducing the odds , but even so the possibility of even one of them encountering a suitable receiving planet anywhere in the Universe is vanishingly small . |
| 5 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 6 | More touching was the sad list of names in Sasbach churchyard , each of them representing a large loss in a small community . |
| 7 | Overthrown Tsar Nicholas II , his wife Alexandra and three of their five children were slaughtered on July 17 , 1918 , to stop them becoming a focal point for opposition to communist leaders Lenin and Trotsky . |
| 8 | It 's also rather annoying if you 're on your own , a bit like watching someone eating a three-course meal when you have some dry toast and a pickled onion . |
| 9 | I think it must have been added later by someone using a dud typewriter ribbon . ’ |
| 10 | To the best of my knowledge there has been only one sustained examination of mass production undertaken by someone using a psychoanalytic perspective . |
| 11 | Ages ago I saw on television someone using a special space with a lever action behind it , to help people with bad backs to be able to dig the garden . |
| 12 | The tied-up human went to sleep after a while , and snored like someone sawing a thick log with a thin saw . |
| 13 | I had always been appalled by the ease with which men seemed able to separate sex and love and now here was I building a high wall around myself and saying , ‘ I will let you into my body but stay out of my mind . ’ |
| 14 | It was n't that I was doubting my faith or denying the reality of my becoming a Christian , but rather that , though I had genuinely believed ten years earlier , my commitment had been intertwined with the emotional comfort of sharing the beliefs and way of life of my family and certain friends . |
| 15 | Oversize exters bulging with weapons — an in the middle of em looking a thousand years old , Ten-huc himself . |
| 16 | On the other hand , in the perspectival sense of ‘ appears ’ an object can present a certain appearance to someone occupying a certain point of view and he may not know it . |
| 17 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 18 | We have even found ourselves teaching a little bit of linguistics , since some of the comrades seemed interested . |
| 19 | For example , someone buying a French property which is the security for a French franc mortgage , who obtains rental income in French francs to cover the cost of his borrowings can sleep reasonably easily at night . |
| 20 | Harbury joined them , keen to hear what they were saying but with the excitement of someone nurturing a good story of his own . |
| 21 | He took my head between his hands carefully , gently , like someone holding a precious vase . |
| 22 | Allen studied the Neolithic revolution and became convinced that it was not a matter of someone having a bright idea and beginning to plant seeds . |
| 23 | I having a bloody |
| 24 | It had never proved satisfactory , and as she grew older she was beginning to recognise and make sense of the repeating pattern , like someone unrolling a flamboyant wallpaper . |
| 25 | I do n't look down on arts students , though I do moan about their empty timetables , but then , someone doing a German degree , no way could I do that , I have the greatest respect for them . |
| 26 | Alice hid her love like someone hiding a precious jewel under their dress . |
| 27 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 28 | Your lecturer will be delighted to find someone taking a positive and active interest in his subject , and will be willing to help — if you do n't take up too much of his time . |
| 29 | These could show some activity going on in the garden — someone weeding a flowerbed , say , or children playing in the sand-pit . |
| 30 | Her hands slapped the wall , like someone drumming a loose rhythm on a tom-tom . |