Example sentences of "and [verb] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently , the mistaken belief is that counselling involves telling people what to do in a nice friendly way and involves educating them with a few pertinent facts in a clear , easily memorable , style . |
| 2 | Say , 44 , of Craigmuir Croft , Ythanbank , near Ellon , appeared from custody and admitted conducting himself in a disorderly manner at his home while in possession of a loaded shotgun between 15 and 17 February , repeatedly threatening to shoot himself and committing a breach of the peace . |
| 3 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 4 | In 1929 an architect was engaged and recommended doing nothing on the clubhouse . |
| 5 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 6 | Yet being able to step off the treadmill and stop judging yourself for a while is the only way to begin to take stock and to start to unwind from the stress spiral . |
| 7 | The movement , which covers Darlington , Richmondshire , Northallerton , Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , has acquired Harewood House in Darlington and intends opening it as a day hospice . |
| 8 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 9 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 10 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
| 11 | Ignoring her repeated instruction for him to get out , he unrolled the scroll and began spreading it over the desk , using the paperweight and penholder to secure its curling corners . |
| 12 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 13 | The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements . |
| 14 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 15 | The gang manhandled the 18-foot caravan through the gap in the fence and began pushing it across the field towards the road . |
| 16 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 17 | Releasing her shoulders , he took a firm grip on her arm and began steering her towards the steps down to the lawn . |
| 18 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 19 | He went across and began washing himself at the lavarium . |
| 20 | Then we removed the wire from the front of the box and started feeding them on the ledge . |
| 21 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 22 | ‘ It hauled me to the ground with a thump and started mauling me on the back and neck . ’ |
| 23 | The housekeeper held up her hands in a conciliatory gesture and started saying something about a mistake . |
| 24 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 25 | Had well he said , Just get on with it and keep pushing it up the wall , just keep pushing it up the wall , just come back . |
| 26 | When we take a tuck or slip stitch card and try knitting it with a changes of colour , we do n't usually know what the result will be . |
| 27 | We broke into the single , locked cupboard , and although we only found some new clothes and shoes with jewellery stuffed up inside the toes we assured each other that Aisha received money from her lover and liked leaving me in the house with the children because it made it easier to cheat on her husband . |
| 28 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 29 | ‘ Sometimes they see you in the street and start searching you for no reason . |
| 30 | As they leered suggestively at her , she would stick a finger up her nose and start scratching it in a very obvious way . |