Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] without [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discouraged and exhausted by all the struggles of orthodox opera production Brook abandoned the opera house circuit a long time ago but first with Carmen and now Pelleas he has reached into the heart of operas , purifying them without diminishing them . |
| 2 | The bills came on the morning of the burial , and he suddenly drew them from his pocket during the service , opening them without knowing what he was doing . |
| 3 | There seemed no way of refusing him without causing him hurt . |
| 4 | ‘ Each is only concerned to find ways of advocating it without getting it . ’ |
| 5 | Gentle took it , pocketing it without unfolding it . |
| 6 | Her trick was to establish during the early part of the evening roughly where the man lived ; then to announce a destination for herself to which he could not suggest accompanying her without seeming over keen . |
| 7 | It has also been suggested that people buy the book because they have read reviews of it or because it is on the best-seller list , but they do n't read it ; they just have it in the bookcase or on the coffee table , thereby getting credit for having it without taking the effort of having to understand it . |
| 8 | This is the easiest knot to learn and you 've probably been tying it without knowing its name . |
| 9 | She could not think of any means of doing it without involving Andrew . |
| 10 | what about doing it without looking at the book ? |
| 11 | It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band . |
| 12 | Yeah or I mean which accents do you think people sound more intelligent when they 've got I mean , it 's not that 's heavily match- guised cos in match guised people are doing it without knowing what they 're doing . |
| 13 | And this is a way of doing it without having to , you know , log-in to er a specific tradition , but to invoke , sort of a wider , more general principles . |
| 14 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 15 | If you had written that package , would you be angered by people using it without paying ? |
| 16 | I decide to leave it ; perhaps the safest way of retrieving it without snagging is with a fish on the end . |
| 17 | It 's just play playing it without using , without strumming the strings . |