Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mix-up in dates has also occurred in other parts of the country and Neil Dickinson , secretary of the English Schools AAA , wrote to county secretaries a month ago reminding them of the recommended date . |
| 2 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 3 | In the main these were the moving of all the machinery from the Frame Shops themselves and Body-Shop lean-to , relocating them in the Old Lifting Shop ( No 34 on the 1906 map ) , and the introduction of welded frames . |
| 4 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 5 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 7 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 8 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 9 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 10 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 11 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 12 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 13 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 14 | The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days . |
| 15 | She had written to them at once after Mr Renfrew 's visit , encompassing them in the great outpouring of gratitude that had flooded her , and received from her father in reply a letter that had shocked her and alarmed her . |
| 16 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
| 17 | This is not , in fact , a problem , since LIFESPAN provides the tools for creating other DCs as the need arises and attaching them to the same package . |
| 18 | But it means , too , transforming these traditions , by imbuing them with the woman-centered values of nurturance and intimacy , as necessary and legitimate goals of political life . |
| 19 | So we do have a problem and and we need to grasp that the a conclusion talking about rolling programme we are concerned about resources we 're , we 're , we 're concerned about using them to the best advantage . |
| 20 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 21 | The department was now hoping to integrate relevant library skills worksheets fully into the lower-school course structure by including them within the science-course booklets , and supplementing them with " home-grown " activities where necessary . |
| 22 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 23 | Someone was , and probably is , with me , helping me in the little I am trying to do . |
| 24 | But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised . |
| 25 | I said to Claire , I said , I 'm sticking them in the wrong one . |
| 26 | However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) . |
| 27 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 28 | Crosland had realized ‘ the impossibility , as he saw it , of a Labour Secretary of State taking institutions from urban local education authorities which were predominantly controlled by Labour , and bringing them under the same regime as the universities ’ . |
| 29 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 30 | After 1870 education for the Poles was seen as a way of bringing them within the German order , of lightening their Slav darkness by opening up to them the world of ‘ civilisation ’ . |