Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks later there appeared a letter to the then prestigious Pall Mall Gazette from Sickert praising the move because there are more clothed than naked people in the world , they display a greater variety of shapes and colours , drawing or painting them does not require the high temperature ‘ which is extremely injurious to young people , and to women of whom the classes largely consist ’ and , most piquantly , because ‘ the absence of the nude model will eliminate a certain number of students who are drawn by mere curiosity . ’ |
| 2 | Patting a horse , instead of stroking or scratching it , only has a few valid uses : as a muscular relaxant and distraction ; and as a part of ‘ breaking-in ’ so that the horse gets used to things thumping around on its back before it is actually ridden . |
| 3 | What is important is what a person is ‘ concerned and accountable ’ for , what he ‘ owns and imputes to … self ’ , what his ‘ conscience [ is ] accusing or excusing him ’ of . |
| 4 | Also , it may prove possible to manipulate NO neurotransmission pharmacologically , either inhibiting or enhancing it , and this could have important therapeutic implications in the management of disordered anorectal function . |
| 5 | Motions from outside of the body often affect this ‘ vital motion ’ , either helping or hindering it , and our awareness of these changes constitutes pleasure and pain . |
| 6 | In a recent article in the California Management Review , Mr Reich points out that , as a bailiwick of the Ministry of Health and Welfare , the industry was out of bounds to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) and so never had bureaucrats helping or prodding it to export . |
| 7 | What major good were we producing or did we start producing around nineteen seventy seven ? |
| 8 | When cooking , many people check the contents of for example bottles and packages by smelling or tasting them . |
| 9 | Windy come here Windy am I smelling or do you normally call me that ? |
| 10 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |
| 11 | It has been found that this form of conditioning can occur much more rapidly if the response prevents unpleasant stimuli occurring or stops them once they have started . |
| 12 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
| 13 | If your leg muscles are inadequately used for walking or running you will be prone to develop varicose veins . |
| 14 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 15 | Can I put it another way to you , that if houses are provided for people who have migrated from West Yorkshire to North Yorkshire , that the failure to provide for employment of an equivalent level , because I well appreciate we are not going to stop Mr Laycock driving or commute I beg your pardon commuting each day from Harrogate to Leeds , that failure failure to provide an adequate level of employment for those new residents would be contrary to the advice in P P G twelve and P P G 14 about reducing the need to travel ? |
| 16 | It is this concern about what is happening that gets me out of my studio into the landscape carefully to scrutinise its every aspect for meanings . |
| 17 | I can choose not to do things that do n't excite me , but fortunately things are happening that do you know . |
| 18 | So many players seemed to have nothing to do with the nations they were representing that asking them to picture their country would have been difficult enough , let alone vow anything to it . |
| 19 | However , by gaining that trust we can look forward with confidence . |
| 20 | Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life . |
| 21 | Corbett went back to his notes about Lady Eleanor 's death , twisting and turning them . |
| 22 | Adam went back to his private world as the plane bucked across the sky , the unseen hands of the veering winds twisting and turning it as it flew towards Hanover . |
| 23 | Her fingers worked at a small lace handkerchief , twisting and untwisting it in an extremity of nervous tension . |
| 24 | Polish technicians were at work assembling and checking it out during mid-October . |
| 25 | And the story behind these instruments is that Roberto Brandoni , a London-based importer of Italian musical goods , stumbled upon a warehouse full of necks , bodies and parts , bought the lot and is currently assembling and selling them . |
| 26 | I spent hours assembling and re-assembling it . |
| 27 | And it 's my contention , it 's my contention that them people that were er strafing and bombing me , er outside , er in republican Spain , was the same was the same crowd was the same crowd that were bombing and strafing several years later , in the in in the second world war , in in in France er and Holland . |
| 28 | On May 24 Pakistan ordered a senior Indian diplomat to leave the country after he accused Pakistani intelligence officials of abducting and torturing him . |
| 29 | The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road . |
| 30 | To make these issues more tractable , it is helpful to consider the historical value of the three types of information produced by businesses , its usefulness the business historian , and the cost of keeping and using it : |