Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well leaving them a key or giving them the key to get in . |
| 3 | But she could n't remember anyone approaching her , or giving her the document . |
| 4 | For example , in a normal conversation between a child and an adult , if the child said ‘ er … um ’ or looked puzzled in response to a question , the adult would attempt to resolve what appeared to be some problem of understanding by rephrasing the question or asking what the problem was . |
| 5 | or knowing what the minimum required was |
| 6 | ( a ) it enables them to demand standards of quality , and ranges of goods which fit into their market strategy , rather than accepting what the manufacturer might prefer , |
| 7 | Rather than doing it the other way . |
| 8 | There is nothing more interesting to a busy chief executive or personnel director than knowing what the competition are doing , what they are being paid and who is moving where . |
| 9 | But it 's important that they get abroad and see these because they also imbibe a lot of feeling from just walking around these places and seeing what the ladies are wearing so it 's very important for them to go to those places . |
| 10 | Going behind the doors that you 're not allowed to go through , go through and seeing what the Sainsbury is , has got behind the doors , the magical doors . |
| 11 | ‘ Style , ’ she replied , throwing her long fair hair over her shoulders and flashing him the toothpaste smile again . |
| 12 | Throughout their married life she was a tremendous support , managing their everyday affairs , helping to organise his exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic and allowing him the freedom — one might say the luxury — to paint without interruption . |
| 13 | Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning . |
| 14 | For Neil Kinnock , a dish of leeks baked in Caerphilly sauce — easy to eat and comforting whatever the outcome . |
| 15 | In the evening of Valentine 's Day , do take two white oak leaves , and lay them across your pillow , when you go to bed , putting on a clean shift or shirt , and turning it the wrong side outwards , lay down and say these words aloud , ‘ Good Valentine be kind to me , in dreams let me my true love see . ’ |
| 16 | I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . " |
| 17 | Most people leave desperately trying to stop the ringing in their ears and wondering what the hell happened . |
| 18 | Most people leave desperately trying to stop the ringing in their ears and wondering what the hell happened . |
| 19 | Without all these controls companies will still be making standard phone calls and writing them up afterwards into signed telephone logs and considering them the best records of a transaction . |
| 20 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 21 | On his ‘ China voyage ’ he plans to spend from May to October sailing the 4,500 miles up the coast of East Asia and riding what the Japanese call the kuroshio ( the black current ) to North America . |
| 22 | Through her interactions with children in response to their work , the teacher also models processes of actively listening to and responding to ideas , questioning , exploring and sharing which the children will then be able to use for themselves . |
| 23 | As in the NUM strike of 1984 , the women have been the backbone of this struggle : dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Daughters of Mother Jones , after the legendary union organiser from the turn of the century , they have walked the picket lines , sat in front of coal trucks , and been arrested . |
| 24 | Parsys Ltd , London NW , has come out with a new version of its 30MHz T805 Transputer-based SuperNode 1000 parallel processor optimised to run the Oracle Corp relational database system and calling it the SN2000 . |
| 25 | Other developments for the backpacker : Coleman are now making their Multifuel stove with a detachable fuel bottle and calling it the Apex stove . |
| 26 | What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are . |
| 27 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 28 | It 'll be worse now , in retrospect , it 'll worse phoning Amy up at that moment and asking what the name was . |
| 29 | A young man of shaven pate , E-X-P-L-O-I-T-E-D tattooed on his forehead , approaches me brandishing a splashing can of Carlsberg Special Brew and asking me the time . |
| 30 | I 'm my own man and that 's very important in these times , even if you have n't had the problems I 've had , and you have n't , because that 's perfectly obvious , you 're sitting there and asking me the questions . |