Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of work can be achieved with someone who is mentally impaired by using skills that build trust , and trying to understand the meaning of the experience in the light of the person 's past history . |
| 2 | But today in a faxed letter , he confirmed he bought the property because it had a clause allowing eviction and added : |
| 3 | Alternatively , by resting pasture or grazing it with another host , such as sheep , which are not susceptible to O. ostertagi , until most of the existing L3 on the pasture have died out . |
| 4 | He was not in the business of inventing metaphors or illustrating stories with moral cameos . |
| 5 | The dog relaxed , too , settling more comfortably under her stroking fingers and closing his eyes . |
| 6 | Seeing racism as determining rather than determinate , at the centre rather than in the margins , also means accepting that Britain 's crisis is centrally and emphatically concerned with notions of race and national identity . |
| 7 | A newspaper report of the day included this picture of the Norfolk display team using tambour and quoted the opinion of rally-organiser Ruth Rolph that he known benefits and creative nature of Medau work would help it thrive in spite of the popularity of recent arrivals such as aerobics . |
| 8 | He may be mute for some minutes and have difficulty in naming objects and carrying out commands for a little while thereafter . |
| 9 | About a stone-age chappie setting snares and sharpening flints and talking to his dog and snuffing the weather in the air . |
| 10 | We would have to develop an ingrained self-confidence in our ability to navigate across featureless terrain without any back-up whatsoever and using maps that gave little or no detail . |
| 11 | There is a forest called Haling Heart that covers the land to Gallimaufry . |
| 12 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 13 | I put on a jersey and jacket and lay with head and shoulders propped against a locker , eating sardines and mopping the oil from the can with fresh bread . |
| 14 | In some magazines they ask men to fill in questionnaires about beauty , and loads of men seem to be using cleansers and having facials . |
| 15 | By then , in any case , Thorfinn was in Scone with Osbern of Eu , drawing maps and discussing strategy . |
| 16 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 17 | Dip a quarter-of-an-inch of the rooting end into hormone rooting powder and tap off the excess . |
| 18 | Dip the base in hormone rooting powder and insert in very free-draining rooting compost , or equal parts peat and sand , four or five cuttings round the edge of a 5in pot . |
| 19 | Dip the cut end in rooting powder and insert in a hole made with a dibber in pots or trays of rooting compost . |
| 20 | Whole leaf with stalk ( African violet , peperomia ) : cut a leaf near the base of its stalk , dip the end in hormone rooting powder and insert in compost up to the leaf base . |
| 21 | She was always doing this , reliving Fernando and forgetting keys and taps and pans on hot stoves . |
| 22 | He told of Tim 's ‘ captivating smile , flashing teeth and twinkling eyes ’ . |
| 23 | Each team specialises in a set of functions — eg , handling text or drawing graphs . |
| 24 | contacting employers and encouraging them to use the ES to fill their vacancies ; |
| 25 | He observed babies using ultrasound and discovered that each showed a preference for one or the other thumb . |
| 26 | ‘ Ah , well , if it comes to that , ’ Merrill smiled , trying to dispel an atmosphere of gathering intimacy that seemed to be waiting in the wings , ‘ I 've never imagined you actually sharpening chisels and tramping about in sawdust . ’ |
| 27 | Little can be more disreputable than a Government who hang on to their jobs while pursuing policies that guarantee that thousands of other people will lose theirs . |
| 28 | Using detailed measures of land use change collected on an annual basis since 1985 as part of Ordnance Survey 's map updating process , this study will examine the way in which growth in employment generating activities and housing demand was accommodated in small and medium sized settlements in England . |
| 29 | He will be working alongside the union 's director of coaching , assisting coaches and coaching coordinators through to U21 level . |
| 30 | Hornbills are big and demanding birds that need plenty of space , which is something most zoos do n't have . |