Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The camerawork too is restlessly European , bobbing and zooming like the worst of ITV 's continental movies and , like the production it satirises , lacking any coherent approach to design . |
| 2 | The former eco-terrorists , feared for their readiness to ambush government whenever it marched into the green province , had suddenly become people worth informing and consulting at the highest level . |
| 3 | Practise these modes by starting and finishing on the lowest D note in the position . |
| 4 | Amelia was in there , jostling and tugging with the worst of them . |
| 5 | Once again , pragmatism can be defended as providing a good fit with what judges actually do and say in hard cases only if we assume that a pragmatist would have noble-lie reasons for constructing and deferring to the best account of the principle underlying past cases in these situations . |
| 6 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll just have to keep pestering and hope for the best . ’ |