Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Above and top : Polypterus ornatipinnis — even a large pair of these were not beyond Derek 's ingenuity when it came to bringing them home from the USA . |
| 32 | However , I understand that the finishing line has been re-aligned and that being the case bookmakers on the rails next to the course will be moved nearer to the winning post , bringing them more into contact with punters . |
| 33 | As the season progressed I 'd become more aware of the gradual decline in the sharpness of my axes and crampons , bringing them more in line with mixed rather than ice climbing gear . |
| 34 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 35 | This latter period saw the creation of a labour code ( 1943 ) limiting the functioning of unions to a local and plant level and bringing them tightly under the control of the Ministry of Labour . |
| 36 | A plantation of 30,000 artificial palms would fundamentally shift cloud patterns near coastal deserts , drawing them overland from the sea . |
| 37 | To say nothing of mashing the boring bits down to a slurry of images , hosing them away with a touch of your finger . |
| 38 | ‘ As he was knocking me all around the ring , ’ said Holyfield , ‘ I thought he 'll miss soon and maybe I 'll get the chance to knock him out . ’ |
| 39 | You are doing yourself a lot of harm by keeping me here like this interrogating me about matters which are protected by the official secrets legislation . ’ |
| 40 | But this year an even more offensive marketing ploy is keeping me away from my Christmas shopping . |
| 41 | You 're his guardian angel — the one person keeping me away from him . |
| 42 | If you are a teacher , a youth worker or someone with responsibility for young people , you can make a real contribution toward keeping them away from crime . |
| 43 | It would give her time to explore and investigate and she would have to pick her time carefully because she had the feeling that Felipe de Santis would be keeping them well in his sight and strictly under his thumb . |
| 44 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 45 | I 'm keeping them together in their little bits because I 've got them all sorted where they belong , so |
| 46 | But now I really can not justify repacking them and squirrelling them away for another 40 years . |
| 47 | None of these writers produced research evidence to back up their claims , basing them exclusively on clinical practice and theoretical projections . |
| 48 | Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ . |
| 49 | Secure the wire ends by twisting them together for a short distance to prevent the turns trying to unwind themselves . |
| 50 | Slowly curl the dumb-bells upwards to shoulder height , twisting them gradually during the full movement until the palms are facing you . |
| 51 | They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century . |
| 52 | The dangers of issuing specifications , a bill of quantities ( if appropriate ) and drawings in a rush without checking them thoroughly for consistency and accuracy are that the intention underlying the contract and work described will be understood differently by the client , the engineer and the contractor |
| 53 | Leave a window or door open for a week after storing to let the fruit sweat , and then keep cool , checking them occasionally for signs of decay . |
| 54 | He aimed his pencil flash , checking me underneath of the chassis . |
| 55 | Since the evergreen boughs were so dark and gloomy , Breeze had tied on some red beads as berries , and gummed the leaves before sprinkling them lightly with powdered ‘ frost ’ . |
| 56 | The front of the hurricane tore at the lower flanks of the mountains , rending great trees from the rain forest and tossing them aside as if they were little more than sticks . |
| 57 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 58 | Frederica , frustrated of magic , took it out on her classmates at a very early age by stripping them ruthlessly of their illusions . |
| 59 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 60 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |