Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Downey , who now lives in a Los Angeles suburb , has already talked to architects and plans to start building in the spring . |
| 2 | He accused her of crying wolf and prepared to go riding on the Sandringham estate . |
| 3 | Catching sight of her , the boy Charles — see him now ! — wants To follow his father 's model : he asks , he begs for a keen horse , Urgently demands weapons , quiver and swift arrows , And craves to go chasing after the doe , just as his father himself would do . |
| 4 | However , the Khmers Rouges rejected the call , and vowed to continue fighting until the final Vietnamese had left Cambodia . |
| 5 | When you are helping the patient to wash , you should try to follow the same sequence as the nurse , and remember to keep describing to the patient everything that is happening . |
| 6 | Apart from being sick and having to keep going to the loo I loved being pregnant . |
| 7 | We haggle over the prices and try to avoid looking at the piles of fruit and salad vegetables on every stall . |
| 8 | And try to avoid travelling in the rush hour … there 's nothing worse than the combination of a traffic jam and a screaming baby , believe me ! |
| 9 | You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term . |
| 10 | Charles 's Navy had fought very well against the Dutch in the 1660s until the money ran out , and had kept going in the 1670s satisfactorily enough . |
| 11 | Something behind it prevented it from fully opening and a dark , viscous substance that in the subdued light looked like a patch of oil was spreading from an invisible source and had begun soaking into the carpet . |
| 12 | The ferry service was making a loss and had stopped running for the winter . |
| 13 | He had heard reports of a pirate ship in Black Hill Cove and had come looking for the pirates . |
| 14 | I BELIEVE the practice of embalming is in the interest of public health and promise to promote embalming to the best of my ability . |