Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 2 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 3 | In other words , nothing relating to the second NTSB recommendation in the Windsor accident report had been done . |
| 4 | After they had left , she stood in the doorway and watched them walking down the main street past the square . |
| 5 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 6 | Catch someone gettin' off the late bus from Tucker . ’ |
| 7 | If we examine what it is one participant is ready to see that other participants might read into a situation and what it is that will cause him to provide ritual remedies , followed by relief for these efforts , we find ourselves looking at the central moral traditions of Western culture . |
| 8 | We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap . |
| 9 | When he came alongside a trawler 25 miles out from the English coast he asked : ‘ Am I going in the right direction for France ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Am I speaking to the radiant bride ? ’ |
| 11 | I thought I saw someone moving in the front room . |
| 12 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 13 | Someone calling at The Two Pheasants , I suppose , or at the Shoosmiths . ’ |
| 14 | But downstairs I rang the bell next to the black steel gates and after a while I heard someone coming to the front door . |
| 15 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 16 | Her Memoirs ( 1810 ) mention the writing of fiction obliquely ( ‘ was I soaring into the airy regions of fiction , I would quickly change the theme ’ ) , but do not mention any of the novels ascribed to her . |
| 17 | In TA it is observed that the strokes that work best are often unconditional rather than solely dependent upon someone behaving in the desired way . |
| 18 | He pointed to someone sitting in the front row . |
| 19 | For example , particles like well , anyway , by the way require some meaning specification in a theory of meaning just like all the other words in English ; but when we come to consider what their meaning is , we shall find ourselves referring to the pragmatic mechanisms that produce implicatures . |
| 20 | She falls asleep like someone yielding to the gentle tug of a warm tide , and floats with confidence till morning . |
| 21 | We like mixed-ability teaching in principle — but it 's such hard work ( if you 're not going to cop out and use worksheets all the time ) that we find ourselves longing for the good old days of streaming . |
| 22 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
| 23 | Standing behind them looking at the steaming urn on the barrow , I felt worse than hungover ; it was a mixture of too little sleep , being hot and unwashed , completely unaware of what was going on , and worst , I was hungry . |
| 24 | There are 200 species of primate , 90 per cent of them living in the tropical rainforests of Asia , Africa and South and Central America . |
| 25 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 26 | An ordinary freedom-fighter or revolutionary — and there were a great many of them operating in the Holy Land at the time — might well have won popular support for his actions , but could not have been acclaimed as the Messiah . |
| 27 | No underhand tactics as then , everything out in the open , everyone operating to the same rules . |
| 28 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 29 | In our ignorance we interpret them according to the prevailing cultural myths . |
| 30 | There may be some delays , because we have to process them according to the normal procedures , but there will not be any undue delays . |