Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs . |
| 2 | Parents , apparently desperate to seek attention , fool doctors into believing their youngsters are suffering from illnesses , either by faking symptoms or by making them sick . |
| 3 | He made out a clear case for embalming all bodies and for treating them all similarly , bearing in mind the long incubation period and uncertain diagnosis in HIV infections . |
| 4 | Thus , for the Piaroa , ‘ hunting ’ includes all capabilities for acquiring animal meat and for making it edible for human consumption . |
| 5 | It was from something on a thin silver chain around her neck , and after snapping it free he stood up to inspect his find in the available light . |
| 6 | I delighted in the intrigue , in the drama , and in writing it all down . |
| 7 | Consequently , if you do n't feel you want to cooperate with me I shall be justified in going ahead with my job and in leaving you free to act in any way you think fit . ’ |
| 8 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 9 | All the research has consisted of work towards the design and production of catalogue systems which satisfy the following criteria : they must be usable at sight without any appreciable need for learning or relearning , and this must be achieved without sacrificing effectiveness and without making them tedious for experienced users . |
| 10 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
| 11 | In turn , these tactics demand certain fly patterns , and by relating it all together , I can predict , with surprising accuracy , the flies I 'm likely to need on any particular combination of wind and weather . |
| 12 | Some people have a talent not only for making things happen but for making them fit neatly together . |
| 13 | But in giving us this faith , he does n't go with a , a picking order into the warehouse of heaven , a and look there up all the great pallets and boxes of faith , or boxes of love , or boxes and cartons of peace , and say right , there 's one , I 'll give that to you . |
| 14 | Secondly , the Queen would ask the Prime Minister 's deputy ( if there were one ) , or the number two in the order of precedence in the Cabinet list ( if there were no formal deputy ) , to take charge of the government , while retaining his portfolio , but without appointing him Prime Minister . |
| 15 | The safety lamp killed , like iron rail , flat ropes and cages , not by reducing safety , which it clearly did n't , but by making it possible to expose vastly increased numbers of miners to that deadly mixture , geology and profit-hungry entrepreneurs . |
| 16 | And we got to there from starting off with fifty pounds between a hundred and fifty of them which was quite hard to handle but by making it smaller this is called cancelling fraction when you take really we 're dividing this side we say , well we 've got ten on the top and ten on , ten times five on the top ten times fifteen on the bottom . |
| 17 | but by doing it that way , I mean I Phyl was er bowling Tuesday night and I said I was probably having a meal out anyway |
| 18 | And then you can do it without Fred and , really , with Fred is , is at the end of day you could pro proof pay load could go back to yourself and I , I E and ourselves , but by having him that other cut you 're gon na be saying well it 's all a bit more than your share . |
| 19 | But by keeping him secret she had given him too much power . |