Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general the gap between lip-reading with fingerspelling , and lip-reading alone is greatest for comprehension of larger units such as sentences , and least for single words . |
| 2 | Cornelisssen keep a good stock of parchment for drawing , which is prepared for drawing by rubbing the surface with pulverised gum sandarac . |
| 3 | Here , the patterns are ready to view on screen in their original design colours , or to download direct to the console for knitting without making any changes or alterations . |
| 4 | CRESSWELL J. : It has been surmised , in the course of the argument , that there is a distinction between abstaining from commencing an action , and forbearing to prosecute one already commenced . |
| 5 | All around lay old and rusting tools and equipment , but among the junk I found almost at once two perfect aids : a tyre lever and a heavy mallet for driving in mooring pegs . |
| 6 | That 's correct yes and I do n't blame them and er if Stuart Argyle thinks the same way we 'll we 'll certainly er see what we can do about pressing for keeping these trees . |
| 7 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |
| 8 | Later , drums supposedly containing carcinogenic drugs were not opened for checking before burning ( for health reasons ) and three were ‘ misdescribed ’ . |
| 9 | Perhaps you will change your mind about returning to publishing one day . |
| 10 | She even had doubts about returning to modelling afterwards . |
| 11 | We are looking for understanding by listening to something or someone . |
| 12 | the separate insertion of a single page into a book either during or after binding by pasting one edge . |
| 13 | To test this , we marked the boundaries of the exposed mesenchyme immediately after wounding by applying spots of the lipophilic dye DiI , which , once incorporated , remains confined to the cells that have taken it up . |
| 14 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 15 | Kim had been sentenced to death at her trial in April 1989 after confessing to having planted a bomb on a South Korean airliner which disappeared near the coast of Burma in November 1987 with the loss of all 115 passengers and crew [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 16 | Shadreck Ndlovu , a former member of the Zimbabwean paramilitary forces , was sentenced to 42 years ' imprisonment on June 1 , 1990 , after confessing to spying for South Africa on the Zimbabwean Army and the ANC between September 1989 and May 1990 . |
| 17 | On May 28 David Goldner , a member of a Jewish messianic group , was jailed for three years after confessing to defacing the graves in an effort to unite Israelis against Arabs . |
| 18 | After beginning by saying that the case for either candidate was ‘ very strong ’ and paying a tribute to Curzon 's long experience , he continued : |
| 19 | The member of staff , whose identity is being kept secret , was found to have tuberculosis after complaining of feeling unwell . |
| 20 | After coming into caddying quite late in life — when he was thirty years old — Nick , who used to be a baseball player and was ‘ quite good at it ’ , perfected his catching trick with his first professional , George Archer , who lived on a farm . |
| 21 | After referring in passing to S. v. Distillers Co . ( Biochemicals ) Ltd. [ 1970 ] 1 W.L.R. 114 the judge said , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 , 433 : |
| 22 | Wait two to three days after planting before watering finished basket . |
| 23 | By Echo reporter CORONATION Street actress Lynne Perrie was said to be ‘ poorly ’ today in the hospital where she was taken after collapsing during filming earlier this week . |
| 24 | The cymbals are then ‘ damped ’ immediately after striking by drawing them sharply back against the player 's body . |
| 25 | In preparing the script , talk to them about writing for speaking . |
| 26 | These addressing modes allow the programmer to carry out memory addressing tasks such as auto-incrementing of auto-decrementing an array index after , or before , carrying out an operation . |
| 27 | The patient may not be abandoned ; but the care given must change from treating for living to treating for dying . |
| 28 | My qualification for writing about skiing in the USA is unusual : I have never done it . |
| 29 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 30 | Also worth looking at to keep up to date are the Radio Times and TV Times : useful sources of information on current programmes together with the names of the presenters and producers . |