Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 2 | Better results are obtained by rooting them singly in 2in pots rather than several to a larger pot . |
| 3 | Some are solitary , and this one constructs a nest for its eggs and offspring by cutting away half-moon shaped pieces of leaf , carrying them away and sticking them together like bricks ! |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Schopenhauerian aspects of his theory contradicted his own earlier doctrines without in fact bringing them properly into line with Schopenhauer 's aesthetic itself . |
| 5 | Ideas exist in our own minds and we need to master the skilled techniques for bringing them forward for evaluation and application to our problems . |
| 6 | In the Cox Report we therefore set out our rationale for explicit knowledge about language in a separate section , and printed as part of it the statements of attainment about knowledge about language from the three profile components , bringing them together in order to show their coherence . |
| 7 | FORTY children collapsed with suspected food poisoning on a coach bringing them home from France . |
| 8 | However , I understand that the finishing line has been re-aligned and that being the case bookmakers on the rails next to the course will be moved nearer to the winning post , bringing them more into contact with punters . |
| 9 | As the season progressed I 'd become more aware of the gradual decline in the sharpness of my axes and crampons , bringing them more in line with mixed rather than ice climbing gear . |
| 10 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 11 | If you are a teacher , a youth worker or someone with responsibility for young people , you can make a real contribution toward keeping them away from crime . |
| 12 | Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ . |
| 13 | The dangers of issuing specifications , a bill of quantities ( if appropriate ) and drawings in a rush without checking them thoroughly for consistency and accuracy are that the intention underlying the contract and work described will be understood differently by the client , the engineer and the contractor |
| 14 | Leave a window or door open for a week after storing to let the fruit sweat , and then keep cool , checking them occasionally for signs of decay . |
| 15 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 16 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 17 | It was almost as if someone were keeping her away from trouble . |
| 18 | That , then , was the concatenation of circumstances that lay behind the events of Thursday night : Bill Muggeridge noticing the ring on the kitchen calendar ; Toby winning a victory over the headmaster on Monday night which made him chary of challenging him again on Wednesday ; Mr Crumwallis deciding that , on balance , a public schoolboy who was on the staff would do more for the school 's prestige than a young local , however personable . |
| 19 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 20 | To Tolkien , with his theory of dragonish ‘ bewilderment ’ , it meant more likely ‘ stayed with its possessor ’ , driving him insidiously to greed and cunning . |
| 21 | Wind the bobbin with 24-turns of 18s.w.g. enamelled wire , keeping it neatly in layers ( there are about 1½ layers involved ) and bring out the wire ends down through the bobbin slots in the positions shown in Fig. 8 . |
| 22 | His somewhat unorthodox methods are explained in his letterpress for Birds of Australia : ’ [ One ] successful mode of procuring specimens is by wearing a tail of a full-plumaged male in the hat , keeping it constantly in motion , and concealing the person among the brushes , when the attention of the bird being arrested by the apparent intrusion of another of its own sex , it will be attracted within the range of the gun … ’ |
| 23 | The ego ideal is replaced in hypnosis by the primal father , in the primal horde and all groups in which these emotions are used for keeping it together over time . |
| 24 | He pushed the bra straps off her shoulders and she looked at him helplessly , torn between releasing the bodice to grab his hands and keeping it safely in place . |
| 25 | This is the opposite of RP ( where can is front and ca n't is back ) , so we plainly can not explain this back /a/ pattern by relating it directly to RP . |
| 26 | The soil should be kept moist , but never saturated , by sprinkling it gently with water from time to time . |
| 27 | While Maureen , who raised the alarm , began to detach herself from the child she had taken home , returning it briefly to hospital , Marie held the infant she called Gemma tightly to her . |
| 28 | Drain it off , pressing the flesh to squeeze out as much juice as you can ; chill the juice before patting it gently around eyes . |
| 29 | If there are any other suggestions There were none , and it being obvious who would have to head the subscribers , Richard wound up the meeting by reading aloud a letter from Willis , delivered by way of Bluebird , in which , addressing them all as shipmates , he sent them all a squeeze of the hand and God bless . |
| 30 | The letter , addressing me chummily as Nigella , exhorted me to rescue men from the cruel tyranny of women , or at least to lend my support to their cause of ‘ Fighting Back For Fellas ’ Per-lease ! ’ |