Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly the blue metal deposit , cobalt , was so named by miners because it was useless and troublesome , reminding them of harassment suffered at the hands of these GOBLINS . |
| 2 | When you need to put pressure on someone , reminding them of time limits can increase their stress level and make them capitulate sooner rather than later . |
| 3 | An occasional shaft of sunlight penetrated the foliage and lit up the bronze trunks of the pines , touching them with fire . |
| 4 | They 'd been designing tube amps for decades , and manufacturing them on site , whereas other companies were perhaps wanting to get into the tube amp market from scratch . |
| 5 | It is ironic that the present undiscriminating reverence for exotic mysticism risks misunderstanding such beliefs for the opposite reason ; that of accepting them at face value uncritically and out of context . |
| 6 | The police team had gone from her house , she had managed to avoid seeing them at work by her long session with Gabriel and John Coffin in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 7 | Select committees have had substantial coverage , but all the evidence suggests — and this is my own impression , having served or attended many committees over the years and now seeing them on television — that , with a few minor modifications , the ways these committees work is little changed . |
| 8 | It meant a new way of looking at reading errors , seeing them as evidence of children 's use of linguistic knowledge . |
| 9 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 10 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 11 | He was fun with the children when they were younger , too , telling them stories about life in the countryside , taking them out — ‘ go all over the place with him , yes ’ — and seeing them to bed : ‘ he always give us a piggyback up the stairs to bed . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Still keen on films after seeing them in action for a day ? ’ |
| 13 | Yeah they , they 've played in red and white , red , white , red shirts white shorts , but they , they used to play in claret and blue I can remember seeing them in claret and blue when I was a small boy but erm |
| 14 | He probably just assumed that you were seeing me in connection with my work . ’ |
| 15 | Silas 's emotional affairs are not your problem , so why are you allowing them to snake about in your mind ? |
| 16 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 17 | This requires cutting the instructions to a bare minimum , so that you are , in effect , just providing them with the seed of an idea , and allowing them to culture it . |
| 18 | In Western Europe legislators have ceded sweeping powers to make detailed regulations to central government executives , allowing them in effect to write up the law ‘ as they go along ’ in a discretionary way . |
| 19 | Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) is an American attorney turned corporate pirate , who wo n't find time for his children ( Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott ) and sees no irony in accusing them of childishness . |
| 20 | Liberal writers ( including the poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky ) attacked Russian nationalists in the Union 's leadership ( including Valentin Rasputin and Yuri Bondarev ) , accusing them of anti-Semitism , and threatened to resign . |
| 21 | Ali Rajavi , a first secretary at the Iranian embassy in London , was ordered to leave the United Kingdom by Aug. 25 , as announced on Aug. 14 , in retaliation for the expulsion in July of Geoffrey Brammer , a UK diplomat in Tehran [ see also p. 39027 ] ; on Aug. 15 the Iranian government ordered an Indian national employed as an accountant at the UK embassy in Tehran and two UK citizens to leave the country within one week , accusing them of involvement in " illegal activities " . |
| 22 | President Mugabe aroused the students ' anger last weekend with a speech accusing them of drinking and smoking too much and misbehaving rather than studying . |
| 23 | They regarded the higher officer ranks and the armed forces Chiefs of Staff as politically motivated and corrupt , accusing them of corruption and of being traitors to military ideals such as " national dignity " . |
| 24 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 25 | You 're accusing me of complicity in fraud , is that it ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Why are you always accusing me of dishonesty ? ’ |
| 27 | are you accusing me of drinking and driving ? |
| 28 | Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger . |
| 29 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 30 | Having to take notice of your moral scruples was bad enough : parading them in front of other people was unbearable . |