Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks later there appeared a letter to the then prestigious Pall Mall Gazette from Sickert praising the move because there are more clothed than naked people in the world , they display a greater variety of shapes and colours , drawing or painting them does not require the high temperature ‘ which is extremely injurious to young people , and to women of whom the classes largely consist ’ and , most piquantly , because ‘ the absence of the nude model will eliminate a certain number of students who are drawn by mere curiosity . ’ |
| 2 | Patting a horse , instead of stroking or scratching it , only has a few valid uses : as a muscular relaxant and distraction ; and as a part of ‘ breaking-in ’ so that the horse gets used to things thumping around on its back before it is actually ridden . |
| 3 | What is important is what a person is ‘ concerned and accountable ’ for , what he ‘ owns and imputes to … self ’ , what his ‘ conscience [ is ] accusing or excusing him ’ of . |
| 4 | Also , it may prove possible to manipulate NO neurotransmission pharmacologically , either inhibiting or enhancing it , and this could have important therapeutic implications in the management of disordered anorectal function . |
| 5 | Motions from outside of the body often affect this ‘ vital motion ’ , either helping or hindering it , and our awareness of these changes constitutes pleasure and pain . |
| 6 | In a recent article in the California Management Review , Mr Reich points out that , as a bailiwick of the Ministry of Health and Welfare , the industry was out of bounds to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) and so never had bureaucrats helping or prodding it to export . |
| 7 | When cooking , many people check the contents of for example bottles and packages by smelling or tasting them . |
| 8 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |
| 9 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
| 10 | If your leg muscles are inadequately used for walking or running you will be prone to develop varicose veins . |
| 11 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 12 | We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory . |
| 13 | So many players seemed to have nothing to do with the nations they were representing that asking them to picture their country would have been difficult enough , let alone vow anything to it . |
| 14 | And plainly Peirce does not deny that we have some common sense grasp of it ; but he holds that taking it seriously transforms the character of inquiry . |
| 15 | Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life . |
| 16 | Corbett went back to his notes about Lady Eleanor 's death , twisting and turning them . |
| 17 | Adam went back to his private world as the plane bucked across the sky , the unseen hands of the veering winds twisting and turning it as it flew towards Hanover . |
| 18 | Her fingers worked at a small lace handkerchief , twisting and untwisting it in an extremity of nervous tension . |
| 19 | Polish technicians were at work assembling and checking it out during mid-October . |
| 20 | And the story behind these instruments is that Roberto Brandoni , a London-based importer of Italian musical goods , stumbled upon a warehouse full of necks , bodies and parts , bought the lot and is currently assembling and selling them . |
| 21 | I spent hours assembling and re-assembling it . |
| 22 | And it 's my contention , it 's my contention that them people that were er strafing and bombing me , er outside , er in republican Spain , was the same was the same crowd was the same crowd that were bombing and strafing several years later , in the in in the second world war , in in in France er and Holland . |
| 23 | On May 24 Pakistan ordered a senior Indian diplomat to leave the country after he accused Pakistani intelligence officials of abducting and torturing him . |
| 24 | The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road . |
| 25 | ‘ What I 'm saying is that unless you take the opportunity to see the system installed and working you 'll be missing the chance of increasing your knowledge of the product and thereby depriving yourself of valuable information . |
| 26 | To make these issues more tractable , it is helpful to consider the historical value of the three types of information produced by businesses , its usefulness the business historian , and the cost of keeping and using it : |
| 27 | Not only are they going to find themselves deliberately and actively squeezed from above and below by the very organisation , the ATP Tour , which is supposed to be protecting and encouraging them but they still have to compete against exhibition events , with open cheque books , for a handful of top players . |
| 28 | The word ‘ mithra ’ was also used to describe a friend , and this god was thought to be a true friend of man , protecting and warming him in life and death . |
| 29 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 30 | Whirlwinds , water spouts , twisting and entangling and spinning us to destruction . |