Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 2 | Osman had recovered from his put-down and seemed bent on recovering the ground he had lost . |
| 3 | Before touching the body he had briefly crossed himself . |
| 4 | In charting the constellations I have added useful ‘ linking lines ’ , though these are quite arbitrary . |
| 5 | Sarah slipped back into using the name she had called her child at birth . |
| 6 | ( b ) Using the ratio you have calculated in ( a ) above to divide the profits for Year 51 , prepare a summarised Balance Sheet for Snow , White and Frost at 31 December Year 51 . |
| 7 | Helen watched from across the room , unable to eat , virtually retching at the sight of Changez balancing a plate on his knee , garland trailing in his dal , as he ate with his good hand , nimbly using the fingers he had . |
| 8 | Mr Boyd had escaped to France after the ‘ 45 , had married a French wife , who now lived with him in Aberdeen , and he tried his best to cure the local people using the knowledge he had gained from some medical text-books he found in a house on the island of Arran while on the run . |
| 9 | It 's all about looking after your house is about , using the neighbours , using the knowledge you 've got to make it more difficult . |
| 10 | Using the work he had done on the influence of a trauma , on a child under five years of age , and its effects on the later genesis of neurosis , Freud analysed religions as consisting of positive and negative reactions to a trauma which has been forgotten . |
| 11 | feeling as if I 'm not using the resources I 've got . |
| 12 | ‘ Tong Chou , ’ he said , using the pseudonym he had used in the Plantation that time ; knowing that if they checked the records they would find an entry there under that name and a face to match his face . |
| 13 | Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years . |
| 14 | Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em . |
| 15 | If all this leads the controlling group to scream for more money from the Government , and it will inevitably , I suggest they start using the money they have more sensibly and not waste it on their more extravagant schemes . |
| 16 | And er put a dollop er dipped your hand into this the grit as well started rubbing using the water we 'd got . |
| 17 | Oddly the thought still writhed within him — the thought of other men using the body he had loved himself , being given wholesale what he had been offered as an inestimable gift . |
| 18 | And it will also aid the tourist industry in York by providing people with a focus to using the material we have here they can identify with it and it may increase the er the trade er in York . |
| 19 | In fact , however , it turns out that if we have only the former of these two features , that is , gliding to , all the diphthongs which are ( -gliding to ) can be distinguished from each other in terms of their beginnings , using the features we have already introduced . |
| 20 | By increasing our skills and knowledge we aim to meet the challenges of the future using the people we have today . |
| 21 | In general , groups of people apply the ‘ least effort ’ principle to achieve a livelihood , using the technology they have available to overcome difficulties . |
| 22 | The hammer continues upwards , using the energy it had initially acquired , until it hits the string . |
| 23 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 24 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 25 | By the second visit Maxine had become quite adept at using the techniques I had taught her . |
| 26 | We now provide two examples of ways in which rational expectations has introduced restrictions which can be tested using the methods we have just described . |
| 27 | Odd-Knut makes coffee using the method we have become familiar with — chuck the coffee in a pot , add snow to taste , boil on the stove , when empty add coffee and/or snow as necessary . |
| 28 | TEENAGER Steven Perry dived into a canal in West Bromwich and saved a drowning youngster — using the kiss-of-life he had seen on the TV series Casualty . |
| 29 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 30 | Greg was assisting the woman they had heard moaning and who looked as if she 'd dislocated her jaw while David was with the pilot . |