Example sentences of "without [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are on to more advanced machine knitting and attempt some intarsia knitting , that is , knitting blocks and strips of colour adjacent without floats at the back , by means of an intarsia carriage , you will be able to make coloured cable strips without knitting the contrast separately simply by knitting strips of colour side by side and cable crossing them . |
| 2 | I suggested some simple exercises , to be done without knitting on the machine , that showed what effect the tuck and slip controls had on the needles and how we could set the carriages to slip or tuck in one direction and knit in the other . |
| 3 | In which other election claiming to be democratic would we make voting choices without canvassing the views of the candidates ? |
| 4 | you can be infected for between 10–15 years without realising it . |
| 5 | Beginners often continue to struggle with weak lift without realising that they are , in fact , losing height and drifting further away . |
| 6 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 7 | Over the years , Page has established himself as a medieval raconteur , delighting his audience with tales of , say , thirteenth-century Paris ; but anecdotes aside , he has also been refining the presentation and programming so that , almost without realising it , his audiences learn a good deal about the often totally unfamiliar music being performed . |
| 8 | Thus , perhaps without realising the implications , the Soviet parliament gave the go-ahead for the most revolutionary experiment here since Lenin 's New Economic Policy of the 1920s : for a massive delegation of powers from the centre , permitting a single republic to create its own market-oriented economy , with its own budget , and to redraw economic rules which basically Stalin 's . |
| 9 | The years reeled back , her old saggy breasts seemed to respond and she crossed the room without realising it , wrapping both her children in the Chinese spread and taking them into her arms like a mediaeval St Anne with Virgin and Child . |
| 10 | Of course the young girls , they sometimes started off very enthusiastic and perhaps did do quite a lot without realising the implications and effect of it but the older women often had trouble keeping up . |
| 11 | She also felt that , without realising it , she had become very set in her ways . |
| 12 | You sort of pass it without realising , going to the Dordogne . |
| 13 | PATIENTS on life-saving drugs could be taking ineffective or dangerous counterfeit products without realising it , as victims of a trade ruse , manufacturers said today . |
| 14 | He bumped into people without realising it , walked into walls and was almost run over by Tock in his protective case . |
| 15 | However , many visitors to the Locks have gone away without realising that it was also the location for one of the more fascinating engineering feats of the canal era , an ‘ Inclined Plane ’ which lifted boats up the steep Foxton escarpment on the Grand Union Canal , enabling them to avoid the climb through the narrow locks , which was both wasteful of water and time-consuming . |
| 16 | ‘ Each of my sisters — one of them without realising it — were used as emotional weapons against me to get what he wanted in the way of sex . |
| 17 | One theoriser , Seville Chapman , put forward the idea that a fielder used trigonometry without realising what he was doing , making unconscious calculations from the rate at which the tangent of the angle of the elevation of the ball changes . |
| 18 | She stood stock still , hoping he would drift off to sleep once more without realising she was not there . |
| 19 | I had lit up a cigarette on leaving aunt 's house , without realising it . |
| 20 | By the age of 30 many people will have already had the infection , probably without realising it . |
| 21 | dribble urine most of the time without realising it ; |
| 22 | Philip Urbach was encouraged by a German-sounding word ( ‘ Maybe English was n't so difficult after all ’ ) , without realising that it meant war over Poland . |
| 23 | If you have embarked on this decision , entertaining friends at home may became increasingly difficult too , for your parent may look forward always to being present on these occasions , without realising for one moment that her daughter needs the opportunity sometimes to be able to relate to her friends alone , so that she can project her personality freely and share confidences and opinions with people of her own generation . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps I have been bored , without realising it . ’ |
| 25 | And , you know , you just sort of grow apart , without realising it . ’ |
| 26 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 27 | They tell themselves they are just ‘ unlucky ’ , without realising that they are the creative source of their bad luck . |
| 28 | If only you had read it first — as at least six people did without realising . |
| 29 | He always went for a type — dark-haired , dark-eyed endomorphs — and when chatting up his quarry , his voice would change from baritone to bass baritone without realising . |
| 30 | We may also know heroin users without realising it — a carefully managed habit is not incompatible with a healthy , active life . |