Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a leading light in the Cinematograph Exhibitors ' Association and expanded his business by acquiring and developing a chain of cinemas — which he named Vogue — in places like Govan , Rutherglen and Shettleston . |
| 2 | Simply mention this offer when booking and take a copy of this magazine with you on your first visit . |
| 3 | One morning Jess stopped dusting and took a book from the shelf , admiring the gold edges to the pages and the soft green leather binding . |
| 4 | Express a point of view on complex subjects cogently and with clarity , applying and interpreting a range of presentational strategies and assessing their own effectiveness accurately . |
| 5 | In addition to its function as a crucial teaching and learning method , talk is now widely recognised as promoting and embodying a range of skills and competence — both transactional and social — that are central to children 's overall language development . |
| 6 | Although involved in organising , promoting and initiating a range of small business related schemes , the London Enterprise Agency sees the London Enterprise Programme as its ‘ most notable activity … widely considered to be the best of its kind ’ ( London Enterprise Agency Annual Report , December , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | developing the range and quality of collaborative activity which the children are able to initiate for themselves , by directly structuring and facilitating a variety of collaborative experiences , and modelling skills and strategies for pupils to take on for themselves . |
| 8 | After they had been stranded for about an hour , they heard splashing and noticed a smell of dead fish , then a hissing noise . |
| 9 | Our brief extended beyond looking at the prevalence of heroin use and included documenting the impact of the ‘ epidemic ’ on the local community , evaluating service provision and recommending and updating a strategy for dealing with the negative effects of widespread heroin use . |
| 10 | Other commentators have sought to identify the nation 's problems not in terms of the effect of some aspects of the political culture but as agents generating and reflecting a decline in the culture itself . |
| 11 | Part 3 was concerned with deriving and constructing a programme of intervention . |
| 12 | I listened to the birds singing and watched a curl of grey-blue smoke rising into the sky from the station 's brick chimney , and winter and the war seemed unbelievable . |
| 13 | During the next four weeks we steamed from one port to another , unloading and loading a variety of cargoes . |
| 14 | I reach forward , the knife in one hand , the other glove touching then gathering and balling a fistful of duvet and then pulling it sharply , throwing it away behind me as I leap forward , seeing her pale nakedness in the same instant as I slap my hand over her mouth ; her eyes open wide and she starts trying to push up ; I force her back down into the bed , hand still over her mouth . |
| 15 | The Guardian can now declare : ‘ No successful capitalist economy has been developed without the state sponsoring an entrepreneurial class , designing and encouraging a network of supportive institutions and actively intervening in the management of the economy . ’ |
| 16 | It is good to meet and discuss with colleagues how your work is going and to enjoy a day of movement together . |
| 17 | but it would be worth the kids on their weekend trips going and having a look in there . |
| 18 | Fancy Jane going and having a bust-up down the |
| 19 | ‘ It 's an opportunity to keep my club commitment going and have a look at what the Wales set-up entails ’ , he said in one of the many television interviews that followed his appointment as Davies 's no. 2 . |
| 20 | The child is given drinks throughout the night to increase the probability of urinating and providing a lot of opportunities to practise . |
| 21 | The complexity , technology and chemical make-up of goods made it more difficult for people to understand what they were buying and to make a judgment at the time of purchase . |
| 22 | We turned our heads in the direction the Brigadier is pointing and see a Commando about a hundred-and-fifty yards away towards the end of the orchard and almost obscured by the trees , making his way slowly in the direction of Scouse 's latrine . |
| 23 | After five minutes , Simon attended to what she was saying and assumed a look of astuteness . |
| 24 | I watched the first of the Fleetwoods roar away with headlights shining and felt a nudge in the kidneys and heard a soft voice . |
| 25 | At Level One students are given a high degree of support and supervision when devising and implementing a programme of activities . |
| 26 | He knew precisely what she was doing and made a face at her , but they both listened with real interest to what Suvarov had to say . |
| 27 | This should momentarily distract William from whatever he is doing and raise a laugh from neighbouring tables . |
| 28 | Accountability or value for money is not the only reason for knowing what government is doing and having a say in it , but the consumer may have a more direct effect on policy and the producer than any number of democratic arguers . |
| 29 | Litigation may also have a valuable contribution to make in activating and mobilising a constituency of common interests , thereby helping to establish and strengthen a collective political identity on the part of otherwise somewhat amorphous interests groups such as environmentalists , or peace campaigners , among whom there may be less cohesion and common identity than is the case with other campaigning groups . |
| 30 | Patients with thick walled , contracted gall bladders were excluded , not only because the gall bladder was diseased but also because of the technical difficulty in puncturing and dilating a track through a thick , fibrosed , gall bladder wall . |