Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [v-ing] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These scratching actions are a crucial part of the cleaning routine , getting rid of skin irritations , dislodging dead hairs and combing out tangles in the fur . |
| 2 | It can be so — certain women have a perpetual ‘ devouring ’ quality — but it is a natural process , echoed in the menstrual cycle , and in the moon 's waxing and waning , and it can be used to positive effect , regulating the ebb and flow of relationships and opening up pathways of communication . |
| 3 | ‘ But it 'll take you the best part of two days to provide the concealment , ’ said Dorrainge , surveying Lugh 's neatly drawn plans and watching the men sawing off branches and raking up leaves from the forest floor . |
| 4 | Helen may do some painting and Elizabeth likes to work at drawing shapes and picking out words as first steps in reading and writing . |
| 5 | ( Walt , 1988 ) They ended up being ‘ just another pair of hands ’ to the nursing services , distributing contraceptives and following up defaulters for tuberculosis and family planning . |
| 6 | A group of staff officers were clustered around one of the last of the fires , stamping their feet and holding out hands to the blaze . |
| 7 | Higher education is also expected to rely more heavily on private sources of finance with polytechnics and universities competing for commercial , foundation and research council contracts and building up relationships with industry through consultancy and science parks . |
| 8 | He may be mute for some minutes and have difficulty in naming objects and carrying out commands for a little while thereafter . |
| 9 | My own view is that while that type of system will be important in the future it may not have the central role assumed for it by John Alvey — hence my plea For more resources to be devoted to looking at real user needs and trying out alternatives to the IKBS approach . |
| 10 | A team of 30 rescuers battled throughout Monday night and yesterday morning to free the men , crawling on their stomachs and ripping out debris with their hands as temperatures reached 30C three-quarters of a mile from the pit shaft of Stillingfleet colliery , North Yorks . |
| 11 | Parked somewhere nearby would be a couple of police vans with sniffer dogs and cordoning off parts of the street had become so commonplace that the cops had left reels of white tape and tripods at strategic points just in case . |
| 12 | It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events … |
| 13 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , evidence has emerged that the West Berlin branch of Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's Christian Democratic Union party ( CDU ) has been active in stirring pro-unity emotions in Leipzig , supplying demonstrators with West German flags and handing out stickers in the black , red , and gold of the two German flags with the slogan : ‘ We are one people . ’ |
| 15 | As both manoeuvred for position , whether it was cutting down trees and digging up streets in Hanoi or sending ‘ unauthorized ’ French battalions to various strategic points , the risk — and incidence — of clashes increased and both sides were at least preparing for war . |
| 16 | Interventions by them during the Ulster crisis had been limited , in the main , to generalities about building bridges across Christian divisions and holding out hands of friendship . |
| 17 | When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins . |
| 18 | The Doctor spent several minutes inspecting his hat , turning it over in his hands and picking off specks of dust . |
| 19 | If you are going to the school yourself , you can probably collect quite a lot of this general information by chatting with the teacher and pupils and noting down details of the surroundings . |
| 20 | This commitment has manifested itself in many ways , e.g. sending out people to speak at schools , inviting school groups to tour the centre , awarding business scholarships to sixth formers and taking on pupils for work experience . |
| 21 | The National Children 's Home wants the government to re-think the provision it makes for young people , increasing benefits for those on training courses and setting up grants for those leaving care . |
| 22 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 23 | In such conditions as prevailed in the last phase of the Weimar Republic , of the total discrediting of a State system based upon pluralist politics , the ‘ functional ’ leadership of the bureaucrat and the Party politician as the representatives of the impersonal ‘ rational-legal ’ form of political domination , imposing laws and carrying out functions for which they are not personally responsible and with which they are not identifiable , lost credibility . |
| 24 | It has imposed an economic blockade , requiring permits for supplies and cutting off essentials like construction materials , tools and fertilizer . |
| 25 | Benjamin looked round the busy yard where servants were pulling out carts and hitching up horses under the watchful eye of Bowyer 's soldiers . |
| 26 | It suits the firm which has cut costs by firing regular employees and putting out work to people like her . |
| 27 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |