Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Journalists rarely investigate , tending to report only the words and actions of others . |
| 2 | She closed her eyes to the image , waiting to hear only the words and shut out the pain . |
| 3 | We were n't going to say just the names initials initials and initial |
| 4 | By the last years of the period there were indications that anti-militarist ideas were beginning to influence even the policies of a few important statesmen — Turgot , Vergennes , possibly the younger Pitt . |
| 5 | His mind was fixed elsewhere , struggling to piece together the fragments of an event he had participated in but not understood . |
| 6 | American negotiators have opened the Japanese market for a variety of goods by threatening to let loose the protectionists in Congress . |
| 7 | Business cards also serve the function of not having to memorise instantaneously the names and positions of one 's business counterparts and they provide a record for future reference . |
| 8 | By the 1840s , as many acute observers like John Stuart Mill were noting , bourgeois opinion was coming to dominate even the actions of the upper classes . |
| 9 | It was not , alas , I who had been inadvertently left alone for two minutes in an antechamber where by chance lay the plan of the Althaus plumbing system — to prove , as so much that is missing does , the crucial piece of evidence when , later , people were trying to fit together the events that fired the conflagration of the civilised world . |
| 10 | Investigators are still trying to piece together the events leading up to the blast , which destroyed the ground floor of the house on the outskirts of Wigan . |
| 11 | For those whose main interest lies only in the formalistic approach to physics , these results will have little impact , but to those who are interested in trying to understand further the implications of this non-locality there remain intriguing questions , which must be carefully examined in depth . |
| 12 | Back in the cottage she took a long , hot bath , but the water failed to ease the tension in her body , even though she lay there for what seemed like an eternity , trying to will away the effects of the afternoon . |
| 13 | There are ways of trying to manipulate even the sortes Biblicae , but he had meticulously and demonstratively avoided them . |
| 14 | clarification that that 's the er just the amendment relating to where you were trying to take away the rights of ward members to attend ? as you have taken away the rights of members on questions , comments er and other things |
| 15 | Although at first sight the quotations reproduced above may seem to have said all that needs to be said , it will be worthwhile trying to specify exactly the mechanisms by which associative mediation theory generates the effects that need to be explained . |
| 16 | The Government were also planning to set aside the results of another competition that they had held for model barracks and this , along with the revelations over the fate of the Government Offices competition , provoked the Council of the Institute into action . |