Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment .
2 ‘ Thoo should 'ave waited for me afore fastening 'im .
3 I hope to show you that there are things you can do to improve your frame of mind ; and that this is a necessary preliminary to engaging with change , whether by promoting , implementing or opposing it , in an intelligent and powerful way .
4 ‘ Are you telling me or accusing me ? ’ he asked , his eyes laughing at her .
5 The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) .
6 If he had known his man , and cared for what he knew , he could have battered Albany 's son and heir into surrender , instead of hauling his horse off from crushing or smothering him in the mud .
7 The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself .
8 Thus hearing a word , or producing it in response to an incomplete definition , will not prime visual word recognition .
9 For the male two responses are possible : dismantling this threat by making the woman submit to his will , or fetishising her .
10 And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane .
11 She felt sorry she had disturbed the usual calmness of a man she respected , but considered she could not apologize to him without either offending or encouraging him .
12 The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug .
13 ‘ Has n't anybody been looking after you or bringing you food ? ’
14 The Motor Vehicles ( Tests ) regulations 1981 exempt among other motor vehicles most public service vehicles ; goods vehicles of an unladen weight exceeding 1525 kg ( about 30 cwts ) ( other than dual purpose vehicles ) ; articulated vehicles ; when submitting a vehicle for a test after prior arrangement or bringing it away ; where a test certificate is refused — taking it for repair by prior arrangement or bringing it away and also taking it , by towing to be broken up , and motor traders when repairing motor vehicles etc .
15 The Motor Vehicles ( Tests ) regulations 1981 exempt among other motor vehicles most public service vehicles ; goods vehicles of an unladen weight exceeding 1525 kg ( about 30 cwts ) ( other than dual purpose vehicles ) ; articulated vehicles ; when submitting a vehicle for a test after prior arrangement or bringing it away ; where a test certificate is refused — taking it for repair by prior arrangement or bringing it away and also taking it , by towing to be broken up , and motor traders when repairing motor vehicles etc .
16 Finally , we can reverse the terms of the argument , insisting that women 's difference from men is not the cause of sexism but an effect of sexism ; social practices like not hiring women in certain positions or allowing them to become leaders have the effect , over time , of producing the very differences which are then used to justify the original discrimination .
17 Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk .
18 It was a gamble between being bumped off for lying earlier or allowing him to think he was gaining no advantage by my presence in the household .
19 He had never , before , seriously thought that she would get beyond the occasional sisterly peck on the cheek , or allowing him the privilege of listening to her troubles .
20 Chetnik paid the rates not appreciating that by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act rates were not payable on any unoccupied hereditament for any period during which the owner was prohibited by law from occupying the hereditament or allowing it to be occupied .
21 In Home Corner areas , replacing lids , using cups with saucers or hanging them on hooks provided .
22 Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing .
23 He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends .
24 Not seeing Fen for weeks or seeing him and knowing the futility of it all .
25 Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims .
26 Why are they resisting those arguments , or seeing them as concessions that might be made during negotiations ?
27 Well it 's not very clear whether he 's actually thinking or seeing it .
28 Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed .
29 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 .
30 The putting of the city to the ban , or devoting it to the Lord , as the RSV puts it , is part of Joshua 's final orders to the people on the seventh day , and receives no mention in God 's initial instructions to him .
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