Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes .
2 ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right …
3 The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay .
4 Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place .
5 For example polymethyl methacrylate ( Perspex , Plexiglas ) may be moulded to any desired shape by warming it to temperatures little over 100°C and cooling it in the deformed state .
6 By separating the glycerides from more readily available fats and assembling them in the required proportions it was possible to match the physical properties of cocoa butter .
7 Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day .
8 Inserting the offending books in canisters of negatively polarised octiron and sinking them in the fathomless depths of the sea was one ( burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five-headed cats ) but before long the magic seeped out and eventually fishermen complained of shoals of invisible fish or psychic clams .
9 Tissues respond to the presence of tubercle bacilli by forming a fibrous wall round the organisms and encasing them in the small nodules called tubercles .
10 In its origin [ Christianity ] presents to man and woman a glorious picture of sexual integrity : the Son of God who has become man and flesh , knowing from inside his Father 's work and perfecting it in the total self-giving of himself , not only of his spiritual but precisely also of his physical powers , giving not only to one individual but to all .
11 But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction .
12 Whatever course you adopt , you must avoid overstocking the land and overcommitting yourself in the early stages .
13 He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth .
14 Froggy was staying with me as usual , making a few bob at caddying on the nearby courses and spending it in the local pubs .
15 Well , gravity was stretching me one way-in the direction pointing to the centre of the hole — and crushing me in the sideways direction , right ?
16 Folding the sheet of paper into four , and slipping it in the back pocket of his denims , Doyle asked one last thing .
17 ‘ People have very quickly got used to the idea of crushing their cans and putting them in the special bins provided .
18 Blur , the Valentines and Dinosaur Jr on in the wrong order , at the wrong time , in the wrong place , before the wrong crowd , using inappropriate equipment , and putting you in the worst mood you could hope to be in for the Mary Chain ?
19 And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped …
20 On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’
21 With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket .
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