Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [noun] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hormone replacement pills are discovered in the bathroom cabinet , and Clara starts going bonkers as she realises that her husband wants a sex change . |
| 2 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |
| 3 | that a simple explanation for the explosion probably lies in the condenser , which cooled evaporating xylene as it left the reaction and was specially designed to accommodate up to 50 kg of deposited tetrachlorobenzene , without blocking . |
| 4 | Shrews and tenrecs emit echolocating calls as they go along their runs . |
| 5 | Things are bad enough now but if there is no sign of progress towards a settlement , the people who are still giving friendly waves to UN troops are likely to start throwing stones as they do in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | He could hear beating noises as he crept closer , transferring the bomb from one sweating hand to the other . |
| 7 | Rose kept touching Maggie as they waited , sometimes kneading her shoulder and arm . |
| 8 | One evening , when the pain of her laboured breathing had become very bad , she lay watching Comfort as she sketched something on a big white pad . |
| 9 | Tebbit wins standing ovation as he tears Major 's policies apart |
| 10 | When he does so , I hope that he will ensure that he legislates to ensure that Labour can not operate delaying tactics as they have in Wolverhampton . |
| 11 | What Harry Truman wanted was for Douglas MacArthur to behave himself , he wanted Douglas MacArthur to stop giving impromptu press conferences , he wanted him to stop inventing strategy as he went without reference to the president , he simply wanted to restore the chain of command . |
| 12 | He 's not like Tom Watson , who will continue answering questions as he walks slowly away . |