Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Thanks for listening to us on Talking Sport this afternoon , we 'll all be back again next Saturday , same time , same place .
2 But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors .
3 One of the best resources you can use is a good listener who will allow you to verbalise your doubts and fears aloud and who is capable of listening to you without pressing home their own agenda .
4 It seems too that analogizing is so deeply involved not only in thinking but in perception that there is no hope of escaping from it by isolating pure observations from which induction can start .
5 Is there any way of dealing with them without using chemicals ?
6 Though the streets of this city were solid , their buildings numbered and named ; though the avenues were bright enough , even at night , to banish ambiguity , he still felt as though he was on the margins of some unknown land , and in danger of crossing into it without realizing he was even doing so .
7 No ethical therapist is going to object to talking to you before commencing treatment .
8 He comes to us with a distinguished career in a technologically-orientated industry and I and my board colleagues look forward to working with him in taking AEA forward through an extremely important period in our development .
9 Can you see it by looking at it without touching it ?
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