Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 2 | And although overseas sales are steadily growing , many countries , such as the US , Germany , Italy , and the UK , are producing their own robots , and using them innovatively in a variety of non-manufacturing applications . |
| 3 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 4 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 5 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 6 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 7 | You 're sticking them back into a |
| 8 | If Walter Smith is going to continue producing them out of a hat from the reserve team like this , Rangers will remain without peer and the rest will have an even greater excuse for abandoning hope before they start . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 10 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |
| 11 | But it can learn to comprehend a series of events by bringing them together into a cohesive , learned pattern to form a language . |
| 12 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 13 | To say nothing of mashing the boring bits down to a slurry of images , hosing them away with a touch of your finger . |
| 14 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 15 | Secure the wire ends by twisting them together for a short distance to prevent the turns trying to unwind themselves . |
| 16 | People surged forward , nearly knocking them over as a train came in . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 18 | I cleared the gun and fired at the Corporal , the burst hitting him in the chest and knocking him backwards into a line of sheets which he brought winding down around him . |
| 19 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 20 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 21 | The expression on his face had grown hard and grim as he 'd scanned the paper in his hands , before angrily crunching it up into a ball and hurling it into a nearby waste-paper basket . |
| 22 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 23 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |
| 24 | Now you know this , do n't start applying it rigorously as a rule which will inhibit your sailing , merely let the body work it out for itself by noticing the levelness of the horizon . |
| 25 | The central characters are emphasised by pushing them into the foreground with bold biting or by establishing them appropriately within an off-beat compositional design . |
| 26 | They happen to do something where there is an enormous organization geared up to pushing them on to a pedestal . |
| 27 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 28 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 29 | All these different productions are sometimes summarised by writing them thus on a single line : |
| 30 | So she 's saving them up for a |