Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make a start , drill a number of holes close together then join them using a chisel which can be tapped with a mallet . |
| 2 | You switch between them using a memory — resident utility . |
| 3 | Even having formatted column C to show dates you have to enter them using a date function . |
| 4 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 5 | with the thought of them using a saucepan . |
| 6 | ‘ Designing a ring is always a lengthy process which involves me producing a number of drawings until the customer and I get it right between us . |
| 7 | ‘ It would appear there is every chance of them maintaining a relationship in the future . ’ |
| 8 | On the other hand , employers who value the services of key individual employees and are dependent on them accepting a transfer may give them more generous relocation packages . |
| 9 | Indeed , utilitarianism and Kant 's ethic of duty for duty 's sake are usually seen as the two great extremes of moral theory , the line between them representing a continuum on which most moral philosophies with a positive theory of what is right and wrong can be placed . |
| 10 | If even she has difficulty , the chances of me adopting a child are negligible , I suppose . |
| 11 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 12 | My lad took me blackberryin' a month or two back , up above the quarry , and I seen'em . ’ |
| 13 | There was not a weakness to be seen and no-one at the game would back against them ending a 26-year wait for the Championship . |
| 14 | She was about to find herself a seat when she caught sight of him , in conversation with a rather pretty dark young woman , both of them laughing a lot . |
| 15 | In the first of four topics , Father Harry Stratton , parish priest of St Alban 's , Macclesfield , spoke of the development in the Church 's teaching on baptism , seen as a movement away from the congregation being virtually spectators at the liturgy , to them becoming a parish community worshipping together . |
| 16 | Most of the federal judges appointed by President Reagan are so convinced the market has its own fail-safe mechanisms for everything that it is hard to imagine them upholding a challenge to any merger . |
| 17 | Like it will crack you up like when you see everybody else out driving in a car like , look at Terry and all and Debby , see all them driving a car . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about me becoming a burden on you , you know . |
| 19 | Someone else pissed over my shoes , and all my Dad thought about was me becoming a doctor . |
| 20 | ‘ Am I interrupting a fight ? ’ he asked with interest . |
| 21 | To this end I compiling a list of Smallholders and retired farmers countrywide with a view to forming a register detailing accommodation , stock levels , facilities etc . |
| 22 | Ant : If I 'm lying , then why am I wearing a bin-liner ? |
| 23 | Oh dear , I think I 'm , I think I getting a bit boring . |
| 24 | Am I compounding a felony , or acting as an accessory before the fact ? ’ |
| 25 | That , I remember , caused humorous embarrassment one evening when Graham , sipping a beer on his balcony , spotted through frosted glass Suzie and I taking a shower together . |
| 26 | Was I making a monster more evil than the first creature ? |
| 27 | I thinking a table how |
| 28 | He says : ‘ I used to do all my own stunts , then one day I thought , ‘ Why am I depriving a stuntman of an honest day 's work ? ’ |
| 29 | reset and that 's how I met up with bleeding Tony he came to visit me meeting a friend , it 's only me he said oh go round and see this girl I know and she was related to my best mate , it 's a complicated story and we sort of went from there really |
| 30 | I did n't want her walking out on me , leaving me looking a fool ! |