Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pagans think it important to propitiate gods with sacrifices , yet they have no idea which is the most powerful of them , so that they might be offending the one who most needs propitiating by paying him insufficient attention . |
| 2 | ‘ And you do n't want to go worrying about crossing them open fields , ’ she went on , conversationally . |
| 3 | ‘ The idea of my book was to encourage students to become more and more interested in music and composing by giving them first-hand experience of keyboards ’ he said . |
| 4 | Which was why he dipped the second piece of fried bread carefully in the egg and turned it about , concentrating on making it yellow all over . |
| 5 | We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 . |
| 6 | Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal . |