Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |
| 2 | During the Falklands War , Mrs Thatcher was punctilious about keeping full Cabinet informed about major developments , and consulted them before implementing the bigger decisions . |
| 3 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 4 | The battles of Penselwood and Sherston were apparently inconclusive , although hard-fought in the case of the latter , but Edmund was able to relieve London , driving the enemy away and defeating them after crossing the Thames at Brentford . |
| 5 | ‘ We can take the old sole off and replace it without changing the shape of the shoe or damaging the structure . |
| 6 | While this is true , there are ways of minimising the problem , and eliminating it by altering the balance of the combustion in the diesel for the first , and by putting a particulate trap into the exhaust pipe for the second . |
| 7 | This is the argument that women 's domestic responsibilities get in the way of their paid work , and prevent them from taking the opportunities for higher-paid work . |
| 8 | He was the spirit of Rangers ' resolution , defying Celtic and flaunting it by taking the ball for a walk into the distant corners of the Celtic defence whenever he could , destroying time , the Rangers ' enemy on the night . |
| 9 | 1 The trick of making eyes smoulder is to apply solid colour sparingly , then smudge and spread it by softening the edges . |
| 10 | Privately , they have backed Lamb and admired him for disclosing the Pakistanis ' ball-scuffing skulduggery . |
| 11 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 12 | The British approach to social policy as developed in the nineteenth century both understood this distinction and exploited it by making the workhouse the only alternative to family care and then deliberately creating conditions in workhouses which were both undesirable in terms of physical conditions and also reinforced a sense of shame , so that any relative who could be considered available would feel obliged to offer support . |
| 13 | In case your bike is stolen , make it easier for the police to identify and recover it by marking the frame with your postcode . |
| 14 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write and thank you for allowing the seat from Snowhill to be kept on your property after it had been removed from its base . |
| 15 | It believes that every vehicle should have a sophisticated exhaust that traps the lead and prevents it from reaching the atmosphere . |
| 16 | There I was revelling in the murmur of drunken conversation from the bar and you go and spoil it by sticking the juke-box on . ’ |
| 17 | I think , though , I 'm always disappointed the way it seems to be that soaps raise this issue but then come back and resolve it by saying the real father is the blood father . |
| 18 | The Court smoked him out and convicted him of supplying the stuff . |
| 19 | A member of the Leeds ' band Hang The Dance , Roman Remeynes , contacted The Wedding Present after hearing the Ukrainian session and accused them of bastardising the music . |
| 20 | Pitt 's great parliamentary opponent , Charles James Fox and his supporters roundly condemned his profligacy in loans to foreign powers , an obvious but overestimated cause of gold drain , and accused him of bringing the country to the point of bankruptcy . |
| 21 | Appeal Court judge Sir Stephen Brown blamed Nottinghamshire last week for an ‘ unhappy catalogue of errors ’ in a child protection case , and accused it of misusing the Children Act . |
| 22 | It takes a stylist 's skill to choose exactly the right combination for you , and to advise you on maintaining the treatment between visits . |
| 23 | At one end there are double doors , so that you can go in through the outer door and shut it before opening the inner door — which means there 's less chance of a bird escaping . |
| 24 | I congratulate the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) on his success in securing this debate and thank him for raising the disturbing and important question of the use of knives in crime . |
| 25 | RUSSIA seized Mikhail Gorbachev 's passport yesterday and barred him from leaving the country . |
| 26 | You can soon go and ask them cos some git 's gon na be coming over and hitting you for taking the |
| 27 | So when the Wigan colliers threatened in 1792 to throw down the engines , they were seeking both to pressure the mine owner and to prevent him from reworking the pit with " blackleg " labour , also the likely object of Cornish miners who pulled up the ladders in a dispute of 1795 . |
| 28 | By denying the existence of administrative law in the face of the structural pressures for the growth in administration , the influence which Dicey 's theory had on political and legal thought served to shield us from the realities and to prevent us from addressing the issues raised by these developments in a constructive fashion . |
| 29 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 30 | Brandishing a handgun , he forced the 23-year-old boyfriend into the boot , where he bound and gagged him before dragging the terrified woman into his own vehicle . |