Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 2 | Not that he was playing any flash lead parts but to keep a strong rhythm part going and sing at the same time is rather like having to twiddle both your thumbs in opposite directions at the same time . |
| 3 | She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon . |
| 4 | Take off scarves , too , while your child is playing and tuck in the dangling toggles on anoraks and jackets . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll just have to keep pestering and hope for the best . ’ |
| 6 | " Stop wanking and get on the fucking phones , " the training officer would yell . |
| 7 | Politics is a process of competition , bargaining and compromise between the different interest groups in which the state plays an impartial and independent role as ‘ honest broker ’ between the various parties . |
| 8 | The class struggle , it may be argued , has been moderated by the incorporation of the working class into a modified and reformed capitalism through the extension of political , social and economic rights , and the elaboration of a complex structure of contestation , bargaining and compromise within the existing form of society . |