Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more recent stress has been on identifying values in the curriculum , and not limiting them to religious or moral education classes . |
| 2 | A vomitoxin can be absorbed through the skin , causing a soldier to remove his mask to vomit and thus exposing him to other toxic agents , through his respiratory system . |
| 3 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 4 | ‘ People are always comparing us to Bogshed ’ , slurs Carl in the band van after the third encore and the obligatory dressing room conversation with two fully grown men with Baldrick haircuts , plastic carrier bags , tatty combat jackets , thick lensed NHS glasses and lots and lots of badges . |
| 5 | He 's just got me mad now telling me to good luck . |
| 6 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 7 | They just get a kick out of bringing home a project they 've worked on and proudly showing it to other people . ’ |
| 8 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 9 | He carried it home and patiently set about restoring it to full health , hand feeding it for days . |
| 10 | Presumably if the different defences had been split between several Hic Mulier figures the problem ( for us ) would disappear — again alerting us to certain , not necessarily appropriate , interpretative assumptions . |
| 11 | You got about five of them went round giving them to other people just so you could say that to Chris did n't you ? |
| 12 | For example , suppose the success of a meme depends critically on how much time people spend in actively transmitting it to other people . |
| 13 | There were good lobster grounds just off shore , and most of that summer I kept a lobster creel set , occasionally moving it to fresh grounds . |