Example sentences of "without [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 2 | She never went to anyone else 's place without checking it first . |
| 3 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 4 | It is however the final formal appearance of the team who have been representing North Yorkshire County Council , and I would n't want this opportunity to slip without thanking them all , Mr , Mrs , and all of the others in their team who have spoken on behalf of the Council . |
| 5 | But how could I , without meeting you first ? ’ |
| 6 | We can describe a list of numbers without writing them all out if it is a particular set of numbers . |
| 7 | Mr Jones , 43 , who runs the cafe in Ross-on-Wye , said : ‘ I took exception to the fact that she was selling teas outside our door without informing me first . ’ |
| 8 | Dawn is particularly inquisitive , and I soon discovered she would never fly properly in a new area without investigating it first , even if I was holding out food for her . |
| 9 | Flatbed scanner users ( like us ) have to feed the sheets in by hand ( but can read text from books without photocopying them first — swings and roundabouts ) but retain the facility to read multiple pages . |
| 10 | But if you do have such a file , be warned — this command will overwrite it without asking you first ! |
| 11 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
| 12 | And I I really do n't think they have any business without consulting you and me , as the peoples that they represent , because I 'm I 'm a voter in North Yorkshire too , so I do n't think they have any business actually doing this without consulting us first of all . |
| 13 | without consulting us first . |
| 14 | Zoos really can not provide this without giving them enormous , pseudo-natural enclosures . |
| 15 | Thus if an individual is to be deprived of a benefit which was enjoyed in the past , and which he could legitimately expect to continue , or he has received assurances from the decision-maker that such a benefit will not be withdrawn without giving him some opportunity to argue the contrary , then in either instance an opportunity for the individual to make representations will be accorded . |
| 16 | They brought him inside to erm recruit without giving him any training at all and what I do has been gained over the last twenty years of recruitment . |
| 17 | Without giving me any warning at all she decided to bring herself back to life . |
| 18 | And why so much without giving me any ? |
| 19 | It is never the case that a writer creates a hypocrite without giving us some clue , however subtle , to his dissimulation ; and it is seldom the case that he is not exposed within the bounds of the artwork . |
| 20 | Whether you have to make urgent repairs to your car or pay for that holiday you 've been saving for , you can get money out of your account without giving us any notice at all — and you wo n't lost any interest . |
| 21 | But all the same I could n't make such a move without giving it some thought , ’ Paula said grandly . |
| 22 | By contrast , when innovation is discrete and there can be only one winner of an R&D race , own and rivals ' R&D substitute for each other , meaning that spillovers from firm i to firm j reduce i 's chances of winning the current R&D race without giving it any compensating advantages in the future . |
| 23 | This was the first device to show quantitatively that at least a straight magnetic field system could contain a hot , high-pressure hydrogen plasma without having it diffuse across the magnetic field too rapidly . |
| 24 | ‘ Sounds fine , but , well , even if Montgomery manages to raise this bomber , if he manages to cut a hole in the fuselage without blowing us all to kingdom come , if he manages to extract the atom bomb and if he manages to secure it to the Angelina 's cradle , what happens if the thing detonates before he reaches the Kásos Strait ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | " You do n't use grown-up words like that without hearing them first , Miss Gristy , " she said . |
| 27 | read each item without hearing it first , and have the language helper say the word correctly after you have said it only if you did n't say it right |
| 28 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If the Inland Revenue were to assess this payment , is there any other way I could cover my staff 's lunch expenses without making them liable for tax ? |