Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nigel invited them all in for food and drink and listened spellbound to feats of derring-do , asking endless questions and reminding me slightly of the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh . |
| 4 | Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents . |
| 5 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 6 | That means keeping them out of the unpredictable British May weather . |
| 7 | He aimed his pencil flash , checking me underneath of the chassis . |
| 8 | Watford full-back Jason Drysdale aims to hit the champions with the final instalment of a miserable treble by knocking them out of the Coca-Cola Cup at Vicarage Road . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 10 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 11 | It had ended with Tony manhandling her out of the house . |
| 12 | It 's possible that Fedorov may have exceeded his authority : I forgot to mention that he 's a madman , though he succeeds in disguising it most of the time . |
| 13 | I say that because all the engines of recovery seem incapable of driving us out of the recession . |
| 14 | Pushing them out of the way , she hastened to the bed . |
| 15 | And grabbing three of the smallest around their necks , he started pushing them out of the back door , into the fresh air , and towards the outer door of the boarding section . |
| 16 | ‘ Never mind what kind , ’ said Gurder , pushing him out of the way . |
| 17 | Duvall was suddenly standing on the step above him , pushing him out of the way and stepping down past him . |
| 18 | The Englishman sensed that the big personal build-up was a blind to hide Muldoon 's real reason for wanting him out of the country . |
| 19 | A whole exciting new scene was being born all about her and pushing her out of the way . |
| 20 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 21 | Unless , ’ he added with unpleasant irony , ‘ anyone has any other ideas for picking it out of the shit … ’ , |
| 22 | Ace tried to thrust a ghostly neural net crystal underneath the Doctor 's nose and only succeeded in pushing it out of the image field . |
| 23 | He 's just using you instead of a prostitute . |
| 24 | We are not forcing them out of the NHS ; they will remain in the NHS , and the services will remain free at the point of delivery . |
| 25 | You could n't keep bulls for long or the strain in your herd would have been weakened by in-breeding , so there was a regular turnover , and quite often farms would loan out their bulls around the Dales before selling them out of the area . |
| 26 | He took her arm , almost lifting her from her seat , leading her out of the kitchen with no further words . |
| 27 | Someone uncoupled that car at Cartier and rigged some way of pulling it out of the station into the darkness before releasing it . |
| 28 | ‘ We can try shaming them out of the drugs business and say how un-Islamic it is ’ suggested Abdul Haq . |
| 29 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 30 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |