Example sentences of "[pers pn] without being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a few prisoners have mentioned it to me without being prompted |
| 2 | Kelly could see her clothes in the corner across the room , but she needed to get to them without being jumped by this barrel of lard . |
| 3 | In a letter of 1955 Tolkien had rather laughed at the idea that Willow-man and the wights were agents of the Dark Lord : ‘ Can not people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil ! ’ |
| 4 | Where a week ago a man could stand up to his full height behind them without being seen , now he had to stoop ; tomorrow , perhaps , he would have to get down on his hands and knees . |
| 5 | But I have known many people — salespeople , surgeons , journalists , scholars , even musicians — who did have them without being the least bit ‘ entrepreneurial . ’ |
| 6 | Certainly the sting had gone out of the words ; I could think of them without being quite so ashamed . |
| 7 | The men were too polite to accept them without being pressed a second and third time . |
| 8 | It was awkward too , as he could hardly walk past them without being recognized . |
| 9 | They also remarked with astonishment a sort of combat between God and her without being able to determine whether God was more occupied in seeking in the secrets of his wisdom the means of exercising her by suffering than she was disposed to suffer for his love ; for she showed an incredible avidity for crosses and an invincible patience over her trials and over every affliction which Almighty God sent to exercise her love and fidelity . |
| 10 | When he sees this , the tom-cat knows he can mount her without being attacked . |
| 11 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 12 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 13 | An enemy could not approach him without being under his fire for the distance of more than a half-mile . ’ |
| 14 | He walked across the small park on the far side of the street towards the vast exhibition centre , glancing back frequently : he 'd chosen this route because it was impossible for Marler to follow him without being seen . |
| 15 | I want you to follow him without being spotted . |
| 16 | Running to hug him without being in the least self-conscious . |
| 17 | Dalgliesh could never see him without being reminded of the portrait of his ancestor , Sir Hugo Berowne , in the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 18 | She liked working with her father too on such days because she could be commanded by him without being suspicious of him . |
| 19 | I 'm I 'm stuck for a word I 've I 've asked Angela , I ca n't explain to her what I mean it 's awful when you , when you got a word at the back of your mind it 's one of those words where ki , a kid ham anybody , any person can er , realise that something needs doing and do it without being told to do it . |
| 20 | people do understand that there ar , if there 's a problem and you can do something about it without being a hero , as Mark said then something should be done . |
| 21 | It is used when the food source is so close that the recruits will have no difficulty in finding it without being told the direction . |
| 22 | One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak . |
| 23 | She was n't sure about the ‘ and so on ’ , but there did n't seem to be any way out of it without being churlish . |