Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that or hacking it with the hammers . |
| 2 | A project in which the children 's desire to acquire information will engender high motivation would seem a far more appropriate way of achieving this than putting them through special library lessons , divorced from any meaningful context . |
| 3 | Try folding a VDU in half and stuffing it in your pocket . |
| 4 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 5 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 6 | This involved focusing on medium-sized towns one alter another and blitzing them with publicity . |
| 7 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |
| 8 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 9 | When he spoke , it seemed to her that he was listening to his own thoughts as much as conveying them to her . |
| 10 | And er getting back to that and cleaning it with a real good clean every single week . |
| 11 | Surely you are saving these and taking them to FOE , Whitehouse Road . |
| 12 | In any event the handing of the letters to the son could amount to no more than using him as a messenger . |
| 13 | Ribbing in the stitches on either side of the cable draws the work in more than allowing it to ladder down , which makes working a sample piece very important . |
| 14 | Karen would n't commit adultery behind Dennis 's back , but there was nothing that excited her more than doing it under his nose . |
| 15 | There is nothing to be gained by translating dollars into pounds in this story any more than doing it in a bank , so the money is untouched . |
| 16 | It does not drive them mad any more than depriving them of any other sort of sleep , although one early report did suggest the reverse , and was highly publicized . |
| 17 | Of course , such a device is doing more than protecting them from an over-exciting adventure ; it is also in a calmer way building up their anticipation of a real mystery . |
| 18 | ‘ There , ’ he said , claiming her achievement as his own and inflating it in the process . |
| 19 | She leaned back against him , covering his hands with her own and pressing them against her . |
| 20 | It 's understandable that they can admire academics , but that 's not quite the same as loving them for the person they are . ’ |
| 21 | I hear from him regularly but it 's not the same as holding them to you . |
| 22 | I phone them up , but it 's not the same as having them with you . |
| 23 | You can still do that as an individual member , cos in the magazine that comes every two months there are always cases , but er , it er , it 's not qu ite the same as doing it in a group where we have our own particular prisoners to look after . |