Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " 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 | Ahead of them a match flared and a lighted cigarette glowed briefly like a small bright beacon , reminding them of streetlamps and bonfires and shop windows blazing with light . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I would dearly love to know why you keep sticking me with motives that I just do n't have ! |
| 5 | But dawn had already reached inside the grey stone walls , touching them with fingers of amethyst , softening the austerity of Castell Rocamar and rendering the place almsot pretty . |
| 6 | An occasional shaft of sunlight penetrated the foliage and lit up the bronze trunks of the pines , touching them with fire . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Teaching young children the right from wrong , and why the police are there and , accepting them as friends , like we did when I lived in the village . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It meant a new way of looking at reading errors , seeing them as evidence of children 's use of linguistic knowledge . |
| 13 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 16 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 17 | Jonathan Burnham describes Power Feminism as ‘ a manifesto for a new generation of women , offering a feminism based on powerful roles for women rather than seeing them as victims ’ . |
| 18 | Why are they resisting those arguments , or seeing them as concessions that might be made during negotiations ? |
| 19 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 20 | She would even extend her fancy into the shops she visited , seeing them as markets where she could choose a fish by the brightness of its eye , a chicken by its stiff yellow claws and plump breast , or pick out tangerines with the leaves still on them . |
| 21 | Yet in some areas still , their skills are not appreciated ; they can be seen as trouble-makers who regard doctor as fellow colleagues instead of seeing them as bosses who are there to give orders . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | I told comic stories about them to Richard 's Oxford friends — my own had drifted away and I did n't mind , seeing them through Richard 's eyes as too solemn , too dull , always discussing the balance of payments — and felt no twinge of guilt . |
| 24 | I have an intractable presentiment that I will soon start seeing them in Tod 's dream . |
| 25 | ‘ Still keen on films after seeing them in action for a day ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | ‘ I remember seeing them in churches , carved in stone . |
| 28 | She hoisted her umbrella to ward off the light drizzle that had started to fall , gave me a couple of twenty-pound notes , said she 'd look forward to seeing me on Friday , kissed my cheek , then went off to do her shopping . |
| 29 | He probably just assumed that you were seeing me in connection with my work . ’ |
| 30 | He had unfortunately proceeded to mar them by fastening them to strips of card with paper clips , which had rusted and left their foul trail on the bookmarks . |