Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking about why you make particular mistakes ( rather than just resigning yourself to being " a bad speller " ) is one way of overcoming spelling problems . |
| 2 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 3 | It is an educational setting that is totally unlike ordinary school , where girls learn to be responsible parents while also expressing themselves like any other fourteen or fifteen-year olds . |
| 4 | A 22 year old prisoner is critically ill in hospital tonight after apparently setting himself on fire in his cell . |
| 5 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 6 | This is entirely appropriate to a form of academic work which spent much effort in locating and charting such diverse elements as well as increasingly concerning itself with the principles of their harmonious unification within the text . |