Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had that irritating manner of believing all was well and trusting everyone completely . |
| 2 | He puts the case for Xanthippe ( aka Mrs Socrates ) , whose husband 's ‘ homosexual leanings , his absent-minded behaviour , his idleness and his love of proving everyone wrong would have endeared him to no wife of mettle . ’ |
| 3 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
| 4 | ‘ This time , she was helping everyone else . ’ |
| 5 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
| 6 | On a particularly difficult issue she had a habit of canvassing everyone privately , except the person directly involved , so that when the matter was finally aired she would already be in command of all views . |
| 7 | Those who sleep less sometimes claim to do so by choice , self-righteously accusing everyone else of being idle who spend more than six hours in bed . |
| 8 | She wants companionship but , in order to achieve that , she has to take the risk of trusting someone else and take the risk of getting hurt . |
| 9 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm seeing someone else . ’ |
| 11 | At first , it became obvious to me that they were not interested in seeing someone else 's approach . |
| 12 | He asked if I was seeing someone else . |
| 13 | I learned that using someone sexually leaves you feeling oddly empty and bad about yourself . |
| 14 | Advocacy means representing and pursuing someone else 's interests as if they were your own . |
| 15 | What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ? |
| 16 | ‘ It was very competitive with everyone stabbing everyone else in the back as they tried to become stars . |
| 17 | ‘ Then I 'm sinking through the bed , and I 'm in the sea , and Dad 's with me , and there 's all sorts of people … teeth like sharks , everyone 's tearing everyone else 's eyes out … falling all over the place , putting all the eyes in a pot for their tea … ’ |
| 18 | The man would be discovered with his trousers down , revealing nothing so vulgar as a penis . |
| 19 | After that he was a changed man , keeping everyone away from him and insisting on moving to the North Bastion Tower . ’ |
| 20 | In tracing the lineaments of his own sensibility , he has the key to understanding everyone else . |
| 21 | She proceeded to relate the interview , keeping nothing back apart from the effect it had had on her , but Nick knew her too well to be fooled . |
| 22 | He had been therapist and client both , had asked the questions and supplied the answers , aiming at total frankness , keeping nothing back , expressing to those bare walls , that metal table and black-leather swivel chair , that window with its half-drawn , dark-blue blind , the crawling distastes and shames , the self-disgust , the shrinking from light and the fear which seemed sometimes to beat with frenzied wings against bars in his brain . |
| 23 | Becoming someone else ; becoming someone new . ’ |
| 24 | They rejoice that their pews are full , without facing the sobering fact that they are only filling them by emptying someone else 's . |
| 25 | From one point of view we all know probably what is meant by this : the importance of not allowing one 's own stance to block the way to understanding someone else 's . |
| 26 | When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 28 | Er well , there was the highly immoral thing called overtime , erm if you had too much overtime you was keeping someone out of job . |
| 29 | Oh no — I would n't want to be responsible for landing someone else in this mess . ’ |
| 30 | If there are a lot of people sitting in a room they 'll just sit there and they wo n't communicate , whereas two or three or four or five residents will communicate quite freely — they do n't feel inhibited or they do n't feel they 're interrupting somebody else 's television programme or radio or something like that . ’ |