Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're effectively cheating your body by reducing your calorie intake and your body sends out different responses because it 's confused . |
| 2 | Previously naff companies are suddenly revamping their image by involving themselves in dance music . |
| 3 | But Mike Felton 's foot had n't kicked her , he had moved it quickly out of the way and caught her as she fell and so saving her head from coming into contact with the brass coal bucket . |
| 4 | They did not work directly on the draw : rather on so lessening his degree of fade that it would be that much easier for him to move the ball the other way when circumstances dictated . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr. Bishop is mistaken in thinking we are litterbugs , but he is only doing his duty in taking steps to protect Ferngrove Park . |
| 6 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 7 | She was much more fun after a few drinks , gently mocking her dedication to saving this planet . |
| 8 | Instead of threatening Cumani , the punter with the violent rather than lucky streak should be kicking himself for not biding his time before backing Shellac . |
| 9 | Despite finally realising his dream of becoming world champion , Mansell quit Formula One last year after an acrimonious row with the Williams team over his contract . |
| 10 | Alice Sherard wrote in her Notebook of Instructions ( 1675 ) — soon realising her aim by marrying Sir John Brownlow , heir to Belton House and its Lincolnshire estates . |
| 11 | Now Mill seems to be very unsure what to do about this because he does n't want to say that the poor should be disenfranchised , because after all everyone is entitled to their say in government , but he does seem to be worried that if the poor are given an equal say or the uned uneducated poor are given an equal say , then they will make a very bad decision , a decision which is against their own interests and this is one reason why he favours plural voting because he recognizes that the numerical majority might make a erm wrong decision , so we should make sure that the numerical majority do n't have sway in a democratic process by giving another client more weight in it so he seems to between wanting to disenfranchise them altogether which he seems to consider and just emasculating their vote by giving other people more votes . |
| 12 | She persevered until gradually her body adjusted to the temperature , and then she really enjoyed herself , splashing around , not caring what sort of picture she presented . |
| 13 | The Hawick mills were suffering so much from a lack of orders in the second half of 1991 that JR , a regional councillor for the town , lambasted his colleagues for not doing their bit by sporting the jumpers that have given the Borders a worldwide reputation . |
| 14 | yeah , he 's all , all erm he 's on the front cover ai n't he , I 'm not spending my Christmas in joking |
| 15 | And the Blackburn star insisted : ‘ Now I am playing under Kenny Dalglish I feel my chances of finally achieving my ambition of playing for Scotland must be enhanced . |
| 16 | Just showing my age in remembering the distant past : - } Kev . |
| 17 | A second sheet or thick towel will be needed to cover areas of the body you are not working on , thus preventing your partner from becoming chilled . |
| 18 | And these relationships to the state are , he argues , largely supplanting their class in determining their politics . |
| 19 | Curiously , for a man who wrote so much about spaceships , he detested flying , and went everywhere on cruise liners , usually paying his way by giving popular science lectures to the passengers . |
| 20 | The Menuworks disk and manual from PC Dynamics , Inc. , retails at £44.95 , it 's incredibly simple to install and run , but in my opinion , you 'd be better off spending your money on upgrading to DOS 5.0 . |
| 21 | Formerly he had been prone to pessimism , full of gloomy prognoses about over-population and wars , which would prevent mankind from ever fulfilling its dream of colonising other planets . |
| 22 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 23 | Enterprise Training is also proving its worth in helping more trainees than ever to find work placements and is committing additional resources to ensure that in the future such placements are available for all trainees . |
| 24 | Like many other greatly celebrated pianists , Andrei Gavrilov first achieved international recognition through a widely publicized competition victory , later confirming his success with playing of an incomparable vividness and panache . |
| 25 | He moved from job to job , for a period boxing in a fairground booth and also trying his hand at acting , whilst also posing for Minton in his studio in return for ten shillings a week . |
| 26 | Grossly updating our estimation of surviving Airspeed Oxfords , Jonathan Spinks has found a cache of no less than four substantially complete ( see photos ) airframes and six or so in poor condition at a site in Canada . |
| 27 | The inadequacy of this part of English law was signalled recently in Kowalski ( 1988 ) , where the Court of Appeal upheld an estranged husband 's conviction for indecently assaulting his wife by forcing her to have oral sex with him . |
| 28 | Ferguson may be stupidly obstructing his development by playing him on the right , where he does not cross the ball so well : - ) Kev . |
| 29 | The memory of those sensitive hands , the clean square nails , the single white streak in his hair , would fill her mind with agony , and she would go on reading her book without taking in a word , or find herself deaf to the fact that the tape she was playing had long since finished . |
| 30 | On screen he appeared to be simply living his life without pretending . ’ |