Example sentences of "and [verb] [v-ing] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 2 | The first is lexicon-based and involves storing a list of the allowed words . |
| 3 | The Census In the United Kingdom , this is held every ten years ( i.e. 1961 , 1971 , 1981 ) , and involves distributing a questionnaire to every household . |
| 4 | Yesterday Gilfellan , 18 , of Keith Road , Middlesbrough , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted taking a car without consent , reckless driving , driving while disqualified and driving without insurance . |
| 5 | Many elderly housebound people living alone feel the loss of their independence very keenly and fear becoming a burden to others . |
| 6 | Fasting gastric electrical control activity was recorded and analysed using a modification of the method described by Van der Schee et al . |
| 7 | Anaesthesia was induced with suxamethonium and propofol , and maintained using a combination of nitrous oxide , oxygen and isoflurane . |
| 8 | A primacy effect was also found for recall , both when recall was immediate and delayed indicating a distinction between a short-term and long-term memory store . |
| 9 | All three of the spaces at the Citizens will be in use with the resident company performing The Marowitz Hamlet and Heinrich Henkel 's Old Rose , and Tag producing a revival of Sunset Song . |
| 10 | He left the bank after he was refused access to his file and returned carrying a bucket of petrol and a cigarette lighter . |
| 11 | Sara went back to the drawing-room and began laying a table for four at one end of the room . |
| 12 | Dangerfield selected the thinnest girl and began dancing a waltz to the hymn-tune . |
| 13 | Many juniors resent more than one in three weekends being disrupted by work and dislike working a series of nights . |
| 14 | Their response to this problem was to release a suitably grown-up , remarkably restrained , but really rather dull LP , and to start talking a load of old bollocks about maturity and development . |
| 15 | Touch , definitely , brings the most rewards : these walls handle like human beings , inviting those with a weakness for the elegiac to enjoy them , and continue rubbing a hand along them . |
| 16 | Other hands tightened my blindfold until it hurt and started fitting a cloth over my mouth . |
| 17 | I was n't even tempted , until Darren came home for a while and started having a lot of fits . |
| 18 | Seven years ago Norman decided their exploits needed to be remembered and started compiling a record of all former cadets who took part in the Anglo-American training operation . |
| 19 | er I think further notice and having having a look at the figures . |
| 20 | It is easy to walk through the Cairns doorway , hand over your money , and go diving a couple of days later . |
| 21 | However , meeting again in Cologne on June 8-9 , Green delegates elected Heide Rühle as party manager , and supported seeking a coalition with the SPD after the next general election . |
| 22 | In somewhat better weather conditions they climbed the five-mile drove-road to the lofty Tushielaw pass , and down to Tushielaw itself , with its bridge across Ettrick , making good time , although the burns and streams were running high and making fording a problem in places . |
| 23 | At the Church centre , helpers prepared their attractive spring posies , while at the Methodist Church Hall ( left ) , Claire Carrig ( 6 ) and Matthew Carrig ( 4 ) found time to pop outside the hall and practise handing a posy of primroses , daffodils , rosemary and foliage to their mother , Kathy . |
| 24 | I was amazed to discover that pilots sometimes forget the large wing-span of their glider and risk touching a wing-tip on one side when flying through a gap . |
| 25 | Léonie ran up the stairs to the grenier and reappeared holding a basket of plums . |