Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ?
2 Exporters can raise prices in sterling terms ( so maintaining them in foreign currency terms ) without losing competitiveness .
3 Time and effort must be taken to break its dependency on the other dog and increase its attachment towards the owner ; short walks without the other dog , short periods of being left at home by itself , perhaps feeding them in separate areas .
4 He was cooking this food , not bringing it in pre-frozen packs .
5 Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction .
6 Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’
7 But what if your wishful purpose is not taking you in this direction ?
8 It goes without saying that in order to use a device for improvising ( such as scales , arpeggios , licks etc. ) one has to develop the particular device to such a level of fluency that physically playing it in any key or position has become almost instinctive , or second nature .
9 It is so I 'm just putting it in half now .
10 ‘ I am excessively grateful to you for not deserting me in this hideous pass .
11 I mean you 're not locking him in any more are you ?
12 when I read that , you know , this is perhaps a wrong s feeling of to express but yo The lord the God created the world but he 's not meaning it in that respect is he ?
13 Mr. Win : Unlike Conservative Members , I am an admirer of the SDA and I am not attacking it in any way .
14 Under Common Law everyone is bound by duty to care for others by ensuring that they are not endangering them in any way .
15 The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person .
16 It 's the same , when he , Chris always doing it in two seconds flat , he went like that , you 're going right , .
17 Get the feeling of panelling by sticking rectangles of contrasting tape on a plain painted wall ; or by drawing rectangular stripes in panel shapes and carefully painting them in contrasting colours .
18 The difficult-to-pronounce-sounds are probably best first learned by thoroughly drilling them in all positions in non-differential drills ( substitution drills ) as in 6.5 .
19 When you send a fax , a dialogue box pops up telling you in plain English just what is going on , while an animated fax machine , complete with a document feeding through it , shows you how far things have got .
20 We look at some ways of coping with it , and also recognising it in other people , because if you 've got people working for you , and they 're stressed , and they have time off work , you 've got to carry things on , have n't you ?
21 Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’
22 I 've still got them , y'know , and I ai n't losin' them in any bath . ’
23 Similarly , if you are buying Mollies for a freshwater setup , make sure that the dealer is n't stocking them in brackish water .
24 As I say , the malais had this habit of letting people go home , then pulling them in six weeks to six months later .
25 If you are paying a little more for the food you should enjoy it for what it is — avoid recipes which suggest such things as stuffing breasts of chicken with Parma ham mousse , then wrapping them in smoked salmon and poaching in wine before serving with a cream sauce .
26 The way he said it , almost putting it in inverted commas , made her give a reluctant smile .
27 Anyway , love it is that seems to have smacked me one now , and I 'm standing there hugging her in that thin nightdress and the thought of those bastards with the dog makes me squeeze her till it hurts .
28 Try smearing the spanner jaws with light oil , then dipping them in fine sand .
29 It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras .
30 Freeze business rates this year , thus effectively reducing them in real terms , a larger reduction than that promised by the Government .
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