Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
| 2 | Touching , stroking not her but the jewels — touching them with an awful tenderness . |
| 3 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 6 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 7 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 8 | Like the smaller copepods , euphausiids are mainly herbivorous , combing algal cells from the water and gathering them in a basket-like arrangement of bristles on their many-jointed forelimbs . |
| 9 | COMIC Mike Harding has had more than 30 poems published after submitting them under an assumed name . |
| 10 | • Put out any burning clothes by smothering them with a thick cloth or rug , but not something synthetic which would melt in the heat . |
| 11 | There are amoebae which gather sandgrains of particular sizes — a process clearly requiring a selection procedure , an instinctive ability to make decisions — using them as a protective outer layer . |
| 12 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 13 | The modern world has discovered that citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C — and has started using them in a big way for cooking . |
| 14 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 15 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 16 | The basic guidelines is erm if somebody is a danger to themselves or other people then perhaps there is some way of helping them with an enforced medication or hospital treatment . |
| 17 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 18 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 19 | Such incidents have now been reported sufficiently often in langurs and in lions , for example , to invalidate an early explanation attributing them to a high population density . |
| 20 | Give hands an overnight treat by coating them with a rich conditioner and then donning a pair of lightweight vinyl gloves ( such as HandiMates , £1.09 for a box of 10 ) . |
| 21 | Willie pulls himself up the stairs reminding me of an elderly praying mantis . |
| 22 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 23 | They made another turn , and another , bringing them in a short time to Southwark Bridge . |
| 24 | Religion keeps people in an infantile state , but by drawing them into a mass delusion , it succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis . |
| 25 | For the rest of us , coming to terms with our grey hair and living with it may be a practical way of encouraging us to come to terms with our chronological age and of easing ourselves into a new age group . |
| 26 | It was the noise of something stretching and straining under enormous , impossible pressure ; as if the very fabric of that wall must suddenly explode inwards , enveloping them in a deadly blast of shattered brick and concrete . |
| 27 | Other mammals not only tolerate but revel in their smells , employing them in a wide variety of ways . |
| 28 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 29 | Employing the naively biographical paradigm of Gay Authorship , Brief Encounter shows Noel Coward displacing his own fears , anxieties and pessimism about the possibility of a fulfilled sexual relationship within an oppressively homophobic culture by transposing them into a heterosexual context . |
| 30 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |