Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hundred young people were set a challenge — put on a full-scale opera , using nothing but rubbish to make the props and scraps of material to create the costumes . |
| 2 | They are between the hills and the Forth and are sparing nothing in Lothian , from the east coast to Dunedin . |
| 3 | He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest . |
| 4 | Helping someone with constipation |
| 5 | ‘ Why should I be penalised for helping someone in trouble ? |
| 6 | Their first instinct , upon seeing someone in distress , was to touch , to hug and hold . |
| 7 | You ca n't get it through your skin — so you ca n't get it from touching someone with HIV . |
| 8 | Whereas before I had more or less ignored the game and engaged myself in gossipy conversation with whoever was E ) laying opposite me , I now began to act out a parody of the ludicrous pastime in which I found myself , tackling everyone in sight , yelling for the ball to be passed to me , jumping up and down , and generally getting in everyone 's way . |
| 9 | Possible mine , ’ the cry goes up , galvanising everyone into action . |
| 10 | The coach trundled briskly past , browning everyone with dust ; the deerhounds checked and growled thunderously at the town dogs until James Flemyng called them loudly to heel . |
| 11 | Rock'n'roll was originally a revolt against straitlaced stuffy mores ( encountered in the family , at school , in the small town ) , but now it 's ‘ brainwashing media images and fantasies ’ , the very institution of pop itself , that we define ourselves against , Indiepop is fast becoming nothing but commentary on pop — The Membranes ' ‘ Death To Trad Rock ’ , Sonic/Ciccone Youth 's obsession with Madonna , Age of Chance 's ‘ Kiss ’ , Oblivion is forestalled because we are constantly made conscious that this is a reaction against . |
| 12 | Erm and that was just an excu h him being expelled for driving someone into town was simply an excuse because he 'd been caught so many other times . |
| 13 | Who sayin' anythin' about England ? ’ |
| 14 | The quarters should be in off the track as much as the shoulders would be in shoulderin , keeping plenty of bend behind the saddle . |
| 15 | I have mentioned aspects of the debate on the inclusion of the subjective self into an ethnography ; now I hope to weave aspects of this subjective self into a scientific construct , revealing something of police culture along the way as I briefly explore some of my own early career moves . |
| 16 | Anthropologist Darrell Posy criticizes scientists who " mine the rainforest for knowledge " without returning something of value . |
| 17 | Oh they were kicking up an awful fuss and I thought to myself now a cat 's tearing one to pieces , that 's the way it , what it sounded like , or two and they were , I could n't see quite out of the window but they were making a fuss on the wall by Diane 's |
| 18 | For twelve years Stan Stennett 's put the Roses theatre in the lime light … staging everything from ballet to bawdy pantomimes and Ben Elton . |
| 19 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 20 | The educationalist Sir Robert Gould once said that a child being educated in Great Britain could not possibly understand his own environment without understanding something about Christianity ; and he was right . |
| 21 | But we need also to remember that there is another entitlement — the privilege of feeling at home somewhere , of understanding something in depth , of being immersed in a culture . |
| 22 | Most pre-Socratic philosophy had been a form of primitive natural science , explaining everything in terms of the physical elements . |
| 23 | This breaching of the formally ‘ arm's-length ’ or contractual relationship has tended to undermine the supposed managerial independence of the enterprise ; in the graphic words of Johnson ( 1978 : 128 ) , there were ‘ grounds for suspecting that the public corporations were becoming something like tenants in the great ramshackle mansion of central government administration ’ . |
| 24 | This is what masonry is about and as we have seen in Chapter 2 , starting with the simple wall one can go from the arch to the dome and to the most complicated cathedral , keeping everything in compression , or at least trying to do so . |
| 25 | Is he still keeping everybody in order ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not thanking anyone at Murrayfield for accepting the itinerary ’ , Sole said . |
| 27 | It is difficult to interpret the results of this experiment as representing anything but evidence of precise specialization of clover clones in their ability to grow in association with particular grass neighbours . |
| 28 | The people in Nepal are Hindus or Buddhists and they believe that they can get to God by going and praying lots of times , chanting , putting special dye on their cheeks , on their erm foreheads and making sacrifices . |
| 29 | Line managers are thought of as ‘ first class citizens ’ and staff are relegated in status to the second rank as expensive ‘ overheads ’ , who are not contributing anything of worth to the organisation . |
| 30 | An adjustable control system allows you to pass in a different direction to which you 're running , enabling lots of teamwork between your players , including clever one-twos . |