Example sentences of "[v-ing] we [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the immediate context of The Possessed Kirillov delights even while he is dismaying us by pushing theory — the novel 's Paper Person motif , that is — to the very limit , the born gambler 's limit . |
| 2 | The tree was decorated with lights by and his team of engineers , and was such a spectacle it resulted in a letter in the local paper from Santa Claus himself , thanking us for putting it up . |
| 3 | If you have a policy for housing , or anything else for that matter , how about sharing it with the rest of us , right and until you come up with an alternative policy , do n't you start knocking us for having a policy which we are prepared to debate . |
| 4 | We have the problem facing us of implementing the planned museum extension , i.e. of building the mezzanine floor over our landlord 's garage . |
| 5 | I hope , it will lead , after the election , to his supporting us in putting its main recommendations into effect . |
| 6 | I thought he was having us on exaggerating — because there were always people hanging out , trying to crash Malcolm 's scene . |
| 7 | We 've , the protest succeeded in focusing a spotlight on this northern test site where the Soviets hope to continue nuclear testing after their own people stopped them in Khazakstan They 're rattled and they 're angry with us , and now they 're punishing us by preventing us from having direct communication with our friends and finding out that they 're safe and well . |
| 8 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 9 | Some people back there would be cursing us for raising so much dust . |
| 10 | Encouraging us to exist on the brink of starvation is one way of stopping us from getting too liberated . |
| 11 | A spokesman from the Department said : ‘ There is nothing stopping us from asking for a total ban . |
| 12 | They 're taking us for granted ! |
| 13 | Does the Secretary of State believe that the action of the board of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. in disqualifying us from competing for this work is fair to Cammell Laird ? |
| 14 | Life is constantly astonishing us by confronting us with new kinds of character , and thereby with different kinds of goodness . |
| 15 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 16 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 17 | An arsenal of political treacheries was employed to impede our progress , from the medium-range one of accusing us of lacking the right political perspective , to the more insidious long-range ones of accusing us of divisiveness , bringing men into feminism by speaking about the war in Ireland and , even on one occasion , attempting to show an exhibition — the famous , ‘ Bin Lids and Barricades ’ . |
| 18 | If this did not occur , and without ‘ mind ’ playing its special role , our field of awareness would be flooded with a sea of indiscernible sensations , preventing us from following a sequence of events or performing any activity without having a multitude of distractions to contend with . |
| 19 | However , booksellers are not able to do more because publishers are preventing us from doing so . |
| 20 | We 've , the protest succeeded in focusing a spotlight on this northern test site where the Soviets hope to continue nuclear testing after their own people stopped them in Khazakstan They 're rattled and they 're angry with us , and now they 're punishing us by preventing us from having direct communication with our friends and finding out that they 're safe and well . |