Example sentences of "without [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are on to more advanced machine knitting and attempt some intarsia knitting , that is , knitting blocks and strips of colour adjacent without floats at the back , by means of an intarsia carriage , you will be able to make coloured cable strips without knitting the contrast separately simply by knitting strips of colour side by side and cable crossing them . |
| 2 | VOTERS should ask one question before they cross today 's ballot-paper : Can the Labour party fund its shopping spree without raiding the pay packets of ‘ ordinary ’ people ? |
| 3 | We want to know the size of this angle without drawing the triangle you know that the three angles of a triangle must add up to 180° Also the two angles given add up to . |
| 4 | Video films are also compact enough to be smuggled into the country without drawing the attention of customs officers . |
| 5 | As a prototype tool , ezX 3.2 allows users to revise the GUI without recompiling the application as well as generating C , Ada or UIL data structures . |
| 6 | They also claim that poverty is not alleviated by providing ever-increasing welfare benefits , but rather by providing an appropriate economic and social environment , in which individuals have the incentive and the ability to raise themselves out of poverty , without encountering the poverty or unemployment traps . |
| 7 | He recalls a game with Durham 20 years ago when Darlington , going well at the time , were 12–0 down without touching the ball . |
| 8 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 9 | The source could only be the south-facing windows , but there was n't a glimmer in that direction ; the light seemed to have slid through without touching the stone shutters . |
| 10 | When Jane first entered the Bin , Rod , a diminutive Scot , was engaged in trying to climb round the walls of the room without touching the floor , loudly cheered by all on his way . |
| 11 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
| 12 | Before Ma left me to collect my new sister from Maternity I would not have been able to execute this upward stretch unaided , now I hold the pose perfectly , without touching the chair back . |
| 13 | There will normally be a hostile touching but in the case of R v Rolfe ( 1952 ) 36 Cr App R 4 a man was convicted of indecent assault without touching the victim . |
| 14 | If analysis at the EM is necessary transfer the cells in sucrose to a plastic-coated slide ( see Section 4.2.2 ) and carefully spread over an area 1 — 1.5 cm2 without touching the coating . |
| 15 | Without tucking the shirt in his pants , he pulls a royal red tie over his head that has been pre-knotted , I 'm sure by his wife , Lonnie . |
| 16 | While many a villager born in so small an island as Britain might pass all his days without seeing the sea , some of his comrades from every European land risked its dangers , courted its excitement — or just found it serviceable for their varied aims . |
| 17 | Oh Well I always loved the sea , i do n't think I could live without seeing the sea . |
| 18 | Er well weatherwise it certainly has you do n't go a day without seeing the sun shine , there 's hardly any rain . |
| 19 | His daughter will not leave without seeing the work he did ! ’ |
| 20 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 21 | But you have to dive through the waterfall without seeing the pool until the last minute . |
| 22 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 23 | And then he was doubly frightened , because he had known without seeing the face or hearing the voice , from small familiarities of feel and smell . |
| 24 | ‘ You are going to fly without seeing the enemy ? … |
| 25 | They are a part of the process , although I have never signed an artist from a demo without seeing the group play live . |
| 26 | The Church could not allow sinners to perish without seeing the evil of their ways . |
| 27 | how you gon na know without seeing the thing that 's stuck ? |
| 28 | You can see the footprints without seeing the fox , ca n't you ? |
| 29 | There were many times when I wondered why I had agreed to research and write this book — it was anything but straightforward — more like doing a jig-saw puzzle without seeing the picture . |
| 30 | He would have been fighting blindly if he started proceedings without seeing the maintenance and servicing records of the fork-lift truck to see whether it had gone wrong before and what went wrong on this occasion . |