Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 2 | ‘ Damn it , Kathleen , do n't you go using me as a shield . |
| 3 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |
| 5 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 6 | GDA , as part of the SEN Scottish Defence Initiative , is pro-actively addressing the needs of defence dependent companies by assisting them in a programme of new market identification and diversification . |
| 7 | The tribes that had emerged from much earlier migrations were the Iceni and that of Cassivellaunus , who was clearly hostile to the newcomers , seeing them as a threat round the northern borders of his kingdom . |
| 8 | Misperceptions of elderly people — from seeing them as a burden and expecting them to be docile , to assuming that older people can not be aggressive or violent — play a part in how physical abuse is perceived . |
| 9 | But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school . |
| 10 | However , apparently you have no trouble seeing me as a thief ! ’ |
| 11 | Seeing me in a state of bewildered angst , they would come up and intone directions in a rhythmical and mysterious language . |
| 12 | On fine days start cutting sprigs of herbs for drying , hanging them in a shed to dry out completely before crushing for storage in screw-top jars . |
| 13 | When the entire pile had been transferred , she bunched the needles together with her hands and alternately stroked and beat them with her karaso , knitting them into a kind of rudimentary bale . |
| 14 | I do n't think anyone will make a fortune by patenting them as a method of space travel , but they have become a very exciting area of research . |
| 15 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 16 | Gloria wiped the tongs clean with a scrap of paper , twirling them in a circle until they had cooled slightly , then she coiled a strand of Ruth 's hair round the tongs and when it was tightly curled , fixed it in place with two hairpins . |
| 17 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 18 | Note how they sometimes walk with their tails up in the air , probably using them as a flag for signalling to others in the group when on the move through undergrowth . |
| 19 | It is difficult to believe that , among the tumult in the cave , either mother or baby would be able to recognise one another 's voices , but bats are famous for their skill in disentangling the echoes of their high-frequency squeaks and using them as a way of navigating . |
| 20 | Detectives believe terror gangs have been renting flats in London and the Midlands using them as a base for operations and then moving on . |
| 21 | For me , too , it seems allied with giving the fundamental grief and despair room and expression , using them as a kind of necessary ballast but not taking so much of them on board that they swamp the vessel . |
| 22 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 23 | Stirling Cooper 's Annalise Kjaer unpicked the body sleeves , using them as a pattern for new ones in black lace . |
| 24 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 25 | If you have gas or coal fires , and can avoid using them for a while , it would be a useful addition to this list . |
| 26 | As well as discussing experiences and problems in handling microcomputers , the group looked at programs available and experimented with using them in a variety of ways . |
| 27 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 28 | Just helping them into a chair can cause quite a lot of bruising . |
| 29 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 30 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |