Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the wardens of the Forest of Dean , and of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , were required to account directly at the Exchequer for the revenues of their bailiwicks , instead of farming them as had been the previous practice . |
| 2 | I thought that people were always disappointed in their old friends ' children , seeing them as diluted , distorted versions of their parents , not nearly as much fun and full of peculiar new ideas . |
| 3 | Sociologists and social anthropologists now have a clearer understanding of the nature of their propositions , seeing them as attempts to provide interpretative accounts of one social group 's ways of living to another group , which has a different set of values and assumptions . |
| 4 | But the chambermaid Miss Kenton had left in attendance stood up upon seeing me and began to shake my father 's shoulder . |
| 5 | I offered my thanks to the interviewer for seeing me and shook his/her hand at the end . |
| 6 | It has to respond to the emerging consciousness of the black community , gay people , feminists by marginalising them and delegitimating their claims . |
| 7 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 8 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 9 | We will be working alongside the base staff , encouraging them and assisting them in their work with local churches , ministering to the homeless in Hyderabad and working among a gypsy group in the country . |
| 10 | Football coach , Bear Bryant , is also a farmhand and in the old days farmhands used to guide a team of animals in front of the plough , encouraging them and making sure they all pulled together . |
| 11 | Chambers , for his part , had given his endorsement in the book : ‘ During the case Nixon and his family were at our farm , encouraging me and comforting my family . |
| 12 | He keeps touching me and Harried up and once he took us both off into a little room to tell us off and stroked Harriet 's leg . |
| 13 | ‘ I carried on dealing in Sevens , servicing them , repairing them and did some racing until the economy picked up again in 1965 . ’ |
| 14 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 15 | The best programs allow the teacher to gain basic skills in using them and to hand them over to pupils after a short introduction . |
| 16 | Do not use visual aids for the sake of using them and do not use them as a defence to hide behind if you are nervous . |
| 17 | MY WIFE , Regina , is forever characterising me as possessing an almost childlike naivete — one attuned with a more idealistic time . |
| 18 | were n't they , and erm supporting helping them and supporting them were n't they ? |
| 19 | I moved to one side with Jamie helping me and went down on my hands and knees on a comparatively clean part of the concrete where the oil stains looked old . |
| 20 | Sometimes the hens would start eating them and break the eggs oh what a mess . |
| 21 | It is always prudent to wash any foodstuffs before cooking or eating them and to wash your hands to reduce the amount of residues adhering to the skin . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not great railway enthusiast , but derive immense pleasure out of building them and running them , ’ he added . |
| 23 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 24 | When he saw on television the public cheering me and reaching out to shake my hand , he said , ‘ You know , it 's not everyone who says ‘ well done ’ to you that means it . |
| 25 | The soft , sweet sounds of the piano dropped round me , intoxicating me and compelling me to follow as I drifted towards the sound like a child of Hamelin . |
| 26 | The Girls were so attractive that his relations were courting them and marrying the most beautiful ones behind his back . |
| 27 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 28 | Bird lovers reacted badly to earlier attempts to control the birds by poisoning them and removing nests . |
| 29 | Whenever I turn to try and get out of the cage , someone is offended or upset , says I 'm defying them or humiliating them . |
| 30 | The individualist interest is served by the assumption that people see the constraints as binding them and act accordingly . |