Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trevor Senior had given the Conference side the perfect start , firing them ahead after seven minutes . |
| 2 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 3 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 4 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 5 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 6 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 7 | Virtually all creatures , though , are capable of scavenging rare materials from the environment and accumulating them effectively by ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 8 | By memorizing short pauses and by relishing them and using them frequently in your do-it-yourself SAS training , your speech reading will improve and your aural memory-bank will be enriched . |
| 9 | And although overseas sales are steadily growing , many countries , such as the US , Germany , Italy , and the UK , are producing their own robots , and using them innovatively in a variety of non-manufacturing applications . |
| 10 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |
| 11 | Just try using them instead of your regular chords wherever you feel like it , and you might be pleasantly surprised . |
| 12 | Three children in the North-east were taken into care and their parents and other adults were charged and found guilty of using them sexually in their rituals . |
| 13 | There are not enough — but it is absurd that , under present arrangements , they and others with specialisms have almost no chance of using them directly with other teachers or with children . |
| 14 | They accuse Washington of exploiting regional trends among Third World states , of attempting ‘ to emasculate the positive basis of such processes , to militarise the activity of regional organisations created by the developing countries , transforming them ultimately into pro-Western military blocs ’ . |
| 15 | Better results are obtained by rooting them singly in 2in pots rather than several to a larger pot . |
| 16 | I 've got several people helping me all over the area , and I watch three or four games on a Sunday myself . ’ |
| 17 | What are we doing Wednesday ? yes , we 'll have one there , and we 'll have one there , I 'm sticking them all over the place , but you 'll see what I mean . |
| 18 | Some are solitary , and this one constructs a nest for its eggs and offspring by cutting away half-moon shaped pieces of leaf , carrying them away and sticking them together like bricks ! |
| 19 | Nigel invited them all in for food and drink and listened spellbound to feats of derring-do , asking endless questions and reminding me slightly of the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh . |
| 20 | Their performances have , over the years , given ordinary people a much-needed reason to feel pride in their native city , while binding them together in the sharing of two terrible tragedies . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the Schopenhauerian aspects of his theory contradicted his own earlier doctrines without in fact bringing them properly into line with Schopenhauer 's aesthetic itself . |
| 22 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 23 | Taylor ( 1982 ; 1989 ) has recently recast his views on soccer hooliganism , bringing them closer to other approaches described in this section . |
| 24 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |
| 25 | Ideas exist in our own minds and we need to master the skilled techniques for bringing them forward for evaluation and application to our problems . |
| 26 | But it can learn to comprehend a series of events by bringing them together into a cohesive , learned pattern to form a language . |
| 27 | It aims to encourage young athletes from Hong Kong , China and Scotland , who might not otherwise reach their full potential , by bringing them together through their respective Amateur Athletic Associations . |
| 28 | Attempts to energise old materials by bringing them together in new ways compete with experiments in new materials , such as electronics and rapid hardening plastics . |
| 29 | In the Cox Report we therefore set out our rationale for explicit knowledge about language in a separate section , and printed as part of it the statements of attainment about knowledge about language from the three profile components , bringing them together in order to show their coherence . |
| 30 | FORTY children collapsed with suspected food poisoning on a coach bringing them home from France . |