Example sentences of "[indef pn] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone using a Scanner who could not afford the high prices demanded by commercial Optical Character Recognition packages will be delighted with this . |
| 2 | He could touch — he could caress — Meh'Lindi in this murderous alien guise like someone stroking a kitten , as though he was absolved from the normal punctilios of duty and common sense . |
| 3 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 4 | Note the offence of obstructing someone assisting a constable . |
| 5 | In China today you only very occasionally hear someone using a baby voice or baby language when speaking to a child . |
| 6 | Perhaps , if Pascoe had n't arrived , she would have gone first to her knees , then sat down , her tongue out like dead meat , with Zeno kneeling up behind her using his hands like someone binding a bale . |
| 7 | At first it was n't too bad but soon his finger was prodding right inside her and that hurt , a sharp , squeaky sort of pain like someone drawing a fingernail across a sheet of plastic . |
| 8 | In order to reassure the House and the public , perhaps the Minister can explain what is the procedure when a police officer uses the powers given in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to stop someone in the street or someone driving a car . |
| 9 | Someone driving a laundry cart found him . |
| 10 | Sometimes you see someone painting a door or something and get that little bit done there and then they step back to make sure they have n't missed something cos they could be it could be so obvious to anyone who 's just standing , What 's he doing there he 's left a big piece in the corner there that |
| 11 | It applies also to someone signing a document with the blanks for the particular transaction not filled in but agreeing to , or authorising , another to fill in those blanks later , United Dominions Trust v. Western ( 1975 C.A. ) . |
| 12 | … The whole scene is in fact a kind of shorthand , since the film can not take ten real minutes to show someone smoking a cigarette to the last , which is the more natural behaviour of a worried man trying to think out a problem . |
| 13 | The kinetic treatment of crystallization from the melt is based on the radial growth of a front through space and can be likened to someone scattering a handful of gravel onto the surface of a pond . |
| 14 | We followed the tweed skirt into a kitchen where its owner motioned us to sit , in the manner of someone training a dog . |
| 15 | Otherwise information is filtered through other books : for example , an archaeologist studying the archaeology of a particular region might publish a book which includes a summary of the site information , and which in turn is used as a source by someone writing a school textbook . |
| 16 | Someone pushing a barrow would not be all that conspicuous . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Like someone pushing a meat market barrow in the direction of Smithfield . ’ |
| 18 | At least , it does if the force on the object is someone pushing a wheelbarrow . |
| 19 | She struggled to look over her shoulder at him , but her arms were tied too tightly for that so she lifted her shoulders and thrust her chin up , like someone attempting a headstand . |
| 20 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
| 21 | At the Snack Shack , chef Kevin Polson , 24 , admits to having seen a fair bit of violence , ranging from someone pulling a gun on him to rugby fans forming a scrum in his shop and going through the glass counter . |
| 22 | Snack attacks : chef Kevin Polson has seen a fair bit of violence , ranging from someone pulling a gun to rugby fans forming a scrum in his shop and going through the glass counter |
| 23 | For all we knew it could have been 12 feet , since the weather was so bad at the top we could see no further than someone wearing a ski anorak and wellingtons sitting beside us . |
| 24 | For example , an older person with a fractured femur or requiring a hip replacement will be cared for by an orthopaedic surgeon ; someone requiring a cateract operation will be under the care of an ophthalmologist . |
| 25 | He wrote as someone perceiving a breakthrough . |
| 26 | OVER the years I have learned to stop wincing at the description of someone having a drink problem . |
| 27 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 28 | It was , I concluded , someone having a driving lesson . |
| 29 | The hospital spokesman said it was believed a smoke alarm was set off by someone having a cigarette in a toilet . |
| 30 | Someone starting a business up , selling double glazing . |