Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will be working alongside the base staff , encouraging them and assisting them in their work with local churches , ministering to the homeless in Hyderabad and working among a gypsy group in the country . |
| 2 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 3 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 4 | He could think of nothing but disguising himself and rushing her on a dark night . |
| 5 | Perhaps next year or the year after we shall consider abandoning minimum sizes , landing everything and taking everything off catch quotas for each boat in order to abolish discards . |
| 6 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 7 | I 'm going upstairs and I 'm stripping her and taking her into the bath with me . ’ |
| 8 | The Founders were to be the guardians of the purity of the paper , protecting it and keeping it in touch with the grass roots which they represented . |
| 9 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 10 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 11 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 12 | But when you 've got people stood behind a desk and serving you and doing nothing but serving you as you come . |
| 13 | by dismissing her or subjecting her to any detriment which results in her dismissal or consists in or involves her demotion . |
| 14 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 15 | Zacchaeus became reconciled to God because Jesus , instead of ignoring him or treating him like an outcast , had deliberately gone out of his way to meet and befriend him . |
| 16 | the gathering up of all this scattered craft knowledge , systematising it and concentrating it in the hands of the employer and then doling it out again only in the form of minute instructions , giving to each worker only the knowledge needed for the performance of a particular relatively minute task . |
| 17 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 18 | Decisions are usually reached by consensus , rather than by a senior manager taking a decision and selling it or imposing it on his subordinates . |
| 19 | In England , until the sixteenth century , it was unremarkable to speak of visitations from incubi and succubi — evil spirits ( male and female , respectively ) which were thought to descend on sleepers , seducing them and perverting them to the ways of the devil . |
| 20 | They were kicking me and hitting me with a big bar . |
| 21 | With synthetic fabrics , it may be sufficient to just stop wearing them and using them as bedding for a while , to see if this is beneficial . |
| 22 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 23 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 24 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The Profitboss devotes time and effort to this , taking his team away periodically to discuss their vision of excellence , clarifying it , refining it and defining it in terms of the best standards , the best contribution , the best performance . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 27 | You realise how subtle it is when you watch a beaver painstakingly placing a pole on its dam , being visibly dissatisfied with its position , removing it and tugging it into another , until it is at last convinced that it has been effectively deployed . |
| 28 | This is most emphatically not the same as blaming ourselves or burdening ourselves with an unnecessary load of guilt . |
| 29 | Are losing theirs and blaming it on you |
| 30 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |