Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 32 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 33 | It is difficult to believe that , among the tumult in the cave , either mother or baby would be able to recognise one another 's voices , but bats are famous for their skill in disentangling the echoes of their high-frequency squeaks and using them as a way of navigating . |
| 34 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 35 | Detectives believe terror gangs have been renting flats in London and the Midlands using them as a base for operations and then moving on . |
| 36 | If you have gas or coal fires , and can avoid using them for a while , it would be a useful addition to this list . |
| 37 | The modern world has discovered that citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C — and has started using them in a big way for cooking . |
| 38 | In many cases pupils at Key Stage 2 will use the same kinds of resources as were used at Key Stage 1 , though they will be using them in a more sophisticated way . |
| 39 | As well as discussing experiences and problems in handling microcomputers , the group looked at programs available and experimented with using them in a variety of ways . |
| 40 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 41 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 42 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 43 | Just helping them into a chair can cause quite a lot of bruising . |
| 44 | One of the things I again would like to see in schools is that sort of approach , which brings out what language is really about , and I think that that 's an exciting and possibly quite unexpected outcome of bringing computers into schools , but it will require that we do n't simply think of it as being ‘ oh , let's have a micro in the science lab ’ ; it is going to be as the government seems to recognise , a step involving curriculum design , involving helping teachers _ really , really helping them in a strongly supportive way — to do something which is , I would say , revolutionary . |
| 45 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 46 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 47 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 48 | Such incidents have now been reported sufficiently often in langurs and in lions , for example , to invalidate an early explanation attributing them to a high population density . |
| 49 | Give hands an overnight treat by coating them with a rich conditioner and then donning a pair of lightweight vinyl gloves ( such as HandiMates , £1.09 for a box of 10 ) . |
| 50 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |
| 51 | He was milking the audience for all he could get : throwing the balls out in every direction and catching them in a windmill of arms . |
| 52 | The result was that all New York fares could now be reduced , bringing them to a level only slightly above that of Virgin 's competing New York fare , and fares on the Boston route were adjusted to match the New York level . |
| 53 | Eventually she noticed the changing note of the engine as they began to descend , and soon Marc was bringing them to a more sedate pace as he nursed the car over the drawbridge . |
| 54 | Their stories appear to rupture time , bringing them within a hair 's breadth of one another . |
| 55 | They made another turn , and another , bringing them in a short time to Southwark Bridge . |
| 56 | In substance and spirit there is much in her portrayal that coincides with the stereotype of woman found in medieval antifeminist literature : lascivious and insatiable , alluring to men , drawing them to a fall — e.g. tempting the monk to sin , and befooling her husband ( or , more seriously , tempting him to indulge in sexual intercourse for its own pleasure and indeed for its cash value ) . |
| 57 | Religion keeps people in an infantile state , but by drawing them into a mass delusion , it succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis . |
| 58 | It was the noise of something stretching and straining under enormous , impossible pressure ; as if the very fabric of that wall must suddenly explode inwards , enveloping them in a deadly blast of shattered brick and concrete . |
| 59 | ... Also , managers often became enamoured with specific planning concepts , employing them with a fervor that inhibited sensitivity to special considerations and that diverted attention from other important issues … . |
| 60 | Other mammals not only tolerate but revel in their smells , employing them in a wide variety of ways . |