Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leaving videos aside , I wo n't sign a band without seeing them perform live , if that is possible . |
| 2 | Other ways we find bands include : ( a ) being recognized in the industry as a company that is worth approaching ( managers with new artists drop in to play a tape to me or any of the other A&R people ) ; ( b ) demo tapes ( they all get heard eventually , but to get your tape picked out of the pile for special attention is difficult ) ; ( c ) seeing them play live on the London circuit . |
| 3 | We provide rich sensory experiences — wrapping them in soft towels , letting them squelch in mud or helping them identify different tastes or the sound and smells of the countryside . |
| 4 | Secondly , children in care , we 're helping them get out of care as fast as they can , and we 're helping them get set up properly , with proper support and so on . |
| 5 | The worker should make strenuous efforts to help parents exercise their rights fully , for example by helping them obtain legal advice , and only after these steps have been taken , should a final agreement be signed . |
| 6 | Nat West is to spend £1.5M on training branch managers and Small business Advisers with the aim of helping them understand small firms ' needs more clearly . |
| 7 | What you have learned is a sophisticated procedure for helping you solve difficult problems . |
| 8 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 9 | Instead the system connects computers made by only one firm — Apple — so letting them share expensive disc files , printers and so on . |
| 10 | Where users only access one LIFESPAN Process , there is no harm in letting them have direct access to the command files in SYS$LIFESPAN . |
| 11 | In order to try and get a resident 's permit for the car you are so generously letting me have temporary use of , I need a mass of bumf for the Regional Council in due course — they require sight of , and in original , car registration documents , MOT certificate , insurance certificate , driving licence , evidence of ownership or tenancy lease of this house ( ! ) plus evidence of payment of property tax ! |
| 12 | Maggie smiled and he bent his dark head and kissed her , holding her hand and simply letting her fall asleep . |
| 13 | What are your parents thinking of , letting you travel alone ? ’ |
| 14 | He could imagine her fighting to hold her own in the orphanage instead of letting herself become meek and mousy . |
| 15 | That eruption of passion had blinkered her to the risks she was taking , letting herself get involved with a man like this … |
| 16 | And they 're letting him keep linear . |
| 17 | ‘ It is raining , she has small children , I am not letting her walk alone , ’ I said firmly . |
| 18 | Ginger 's character was too erratic to risk letting her have complete control so Barbara was the appropriate choice . |
| 19 | He undid the buttons of his shirt and shrugged it from his shoulders , letting it fall unheeded to the floor . |
| 20 | He did not bother to shut it , letting it swing open behind him . |
| 21 | Similarly , within ATE areas testing could be supported by intelligent diagnostic information systems capable of guidance and support to the test engineer helping him assimilate complex failure history data and useful testing procedures . |
| 22 | And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned . |
| 23 | No good making them feel awkward , they just do what they 're going to do and that 's it . |
| 24 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 25 | Learn how to disagree with the arguments put forward by others without making them feel small . |
| 26 | ‘ It is a poor motivation to ask people to change by making them feel bad or unworthy . |
| 27 | She brushed them with a brush that was kept in the summer-house , making them stand still , with their heads up . |
| 28 | I 'd start by shooting a few people I know and making them stop digging holes in the road . ’ |
| 29 | They have roughly the same diameter down their whole length , but instead of being straight they have many short undulations , making them appear crimped or crinkled when viewed under a magnifying lens . |
| 30 | Additional revenue could be obtained by the Exchequer from this source and it would deter demand for imported goods by making them appear expensive in our shops . |