Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three reasons were given for his signing the interview notes : he had toothache ; he was tired and subdued ; and he was afraid that his solicitor might be reprimanded again . |
| 2 | Thus , the relationship between birth weight , maternal age and birth order can be considered as one underlying the relationship between maternal age , birth order and child survival . |
| 3 | The bread supplied by Benjamin Maulden was ‘ very indifferently baked ’ and the house surgeon was to write to him expressing the Board 's dissatisfaction — which was extended to a Mr. Bentham , whose bread was found to be underweight . |
| 4 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to write to you concerning the security of the Old Mill Building on the Dairy Yard . |
| 5 | I have been instructed by the committee and members of Harlow W I to write to you making the strongest possible protest about the increase in the W I subscription to nine pounds . |
| 6 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 7 | Does anybody not , does anybody object to me recording the lecture ? |
| 8 | When she objected to him sharing the blame with the editor , he brushed her aside and said that without the keys a lot of information would have been kept from him . |
| 9 | There was a slight hiccup in the 1950s when a good citizen of Edinburgh objected to our bearing the arms . |
| 10 | ‘ I was resigned to him missing the return leg , but he has recovered remarkably quickly . |
| 11 | She had protested at their taking the Friar 's sack but now she allowed herself to be swept along by them without resistance . |
| 12 | I mean I would n't think of her sending the camera over |
| 13 | ‘ Then Oxfam ; have you ever heard of anyone getting the sack from Oxfam ? |
| 14 | I 've never heard of anyone working the hours I worked but then again I was living there and that was my disadvantage . |
| 15 | And she was silenced as one watching the rerun of an all too familiar catastrophe beyond change . |
| 16 | A junior spin doctor wandered down the aisle of bus and aeroplane using the language which presumably they drum into them at medical school : ‘ I will certainly convey your request to the Prime Minister for a comment on these polls , but I think you will find him taking the view that after April 9 you will all be writing about him winning the only poll that matters . ’ |
| 17 | It will be noted that they are marked mf or f against the f or ff of the rest of the ensemble to guard against their upsetting the balance by too powerful and brassy a tone . |
| 18 | No part of his mind said , ‘ It 's silly to feel like this about leaving the house , ’ because he knew that this feeling was n't in any way connected with his leaving the house . |
| 19 | He and Nedham must have been amazed to see the new water wheels towering above them powering the pumping and winding machines , for the miners were now working well below the Grand Level , and a shaft had been put down . |
| 20 | After this interview , their success or failure depends upon their winning the good opinion of existing judges whose views are canvassed informally by civil servants in the Lord Chancellor 's office . |
| 21 | Addresses have been drawn by statistically random methods and , as you will appreciate , the success of the research depends upon our obtaining the highest possible response rate as only then can we ensure that the sample is truly representative . |
| 22 | When you have collected and transcribed a large body of texts this may take two or three years — you can have a concordance made from them using the TEXT ANALYSIS ( TA ) programme . |
| 23 | If we are not careful , use of this example to defuse the pretensions of a certainty condition will result in our losing the belief condition we were trying to defend . |
| 24 | The modern tendency to put the airbrake lever , flap lever , trim and undercarriage all on the left side of the cockpit can easily result in you pulling the wrong lever . |
| 25 | I 've been listening to you ringing the bell . " |
| 26 | Instead , natural selection seems to lead to us adopting the effective theory of free will . |
| 27 | This arrangement is acceptable , but it depends on someone emptying the collection tray . |
| 28 | Recent work has confined that it is not possible to measure intensity of subjective sensation in a way that is distinct from and independent of measurement of the physical stimulus from which it is derived ; that Fechner 's logarithmic transform exists only as a mathematical construction to link reports of sensations with measurements of stimuli ; and an experimental subject 's conformity to Stevens ' power law depends on his getting the experiment ‘ right ’ . |
| 29 | Wait until your savings have grown to something approaching the average asking price ! |
| 30 | It is with great dismay that I am writing to you following the presentation of the Editing for Industry awards in Torquay . |