Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the most part , what is good for the business will also be good for the shareholders and so speaking of a duty to benefit the business will often be accurate enough . |
| 2 | In the evening they gravitated to Soho , moving from the Wheatsheaf , to the Highlander , the Black Horse or the York Minster , and perhaps taking in a meal at Fava 's , then Minton 's favourite restaurant , before returning to 37 Hamilton Terrace to crash out on divans , some staying the night with Susan Einzig at her flat in Hampstead . |
| 3 | Throughout Iraq and even in neighbouring Kuwait , it was possible to share something of the flavour of the front line through the early evening transmissions of Suwar min al-maarakah ( pictures from the battle ) , which followed the news and which , in addition to depicting the bombardment of distant Iranian positions by Iraqi artillery , contributed some human interest with groups of soldiers , sometimes regulars , sometimes from the People 's Army , having a brew-up in some operational area , waving to the camera and generally putting on a show . |
| 4 | He is described as playing tricks on Jewish moneylenders in order to finance his soldiery , and generally behaving in a manner very far from what one might expect from the deeds of similar heroes such as Roland , Ogier or Lancelot . |
| 5 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |
| 6 | ‘ How can you respect bashing in a bolt and just waiting for a robot to take over your job ? |
| 7 | I remember driving down to Leith on that Friday night , and just going for a walk and thinking that the next time the sun came up I would be playing at Murrayfield . |
| 8 | But with half an hour gone the poor quality of United 's final ball had left Cantona stranded and still looking for a chance to put some flesh on Ferguson 's bold predictions . |
| 9 | A major purveyor of Tory gossip and still looking for a job . |
| 10 | Here she was in her sixties and still dreaming like a schoolgirl about a man . |
| 11 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 12 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 13 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 14 | It is one in which young people often start life in improved or ‘ gentrified ’ housing in inner urban areas , thence progressing to large family homes in the outer suburbs and later retiring to a house purpose-made for well-off home owners . |
| 15 | Dark and relentless , feeding occasionally from a ‘ 303 ’ magic wand , it severs the veins of the other three tracks and stands powerfully over them , eerie and obsessively driving towards a finish line that seems will never appear . |
| 16 | What , and now going for a head , hit the bar . |
| 17 | Dustin knew he was coming in to Broadway with Jimmy Shine and did not relish the idea of making a film and simultaneously appearing in a play , especially as the production was having problems on the road . |
| 18 | First , they will be required to distribute most ( possibly around three-quarters ) of these funds ( the ‘ aggregated schools budget ’ ) between schools strictly and even-handedly according to a formula , to be devised by each LEA but requiring approval by the DES . |
| 19 | Greenidge and Lloyd top-scored as West Indies declared at 251 for 9 , and then Holding , Roberts and Holder , restricted MCC to 197 , only Gilliat , the captain , having a substantial knock , and Amiss ducking into a bouncer which left him with four stitches in his scalp . |
| 20 | These rosy expectations were not , however , to be fulfilled and even allowing for a degree of misfortune , Carter 's record of achievement as president was slim . |
| 21 | The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world . |
| 22 | The initial sums were often quite modest as football clubs tend to grow gradually , first drawing crowds on a casual basis and then fencing in a field and charging admission ; from this point a wooden stand might be built and earth piled up into which steps could be cut . |
| 23 | So deep was the division on the " entrist tactic " that the unified body reached the compromise of working within the Labour Party for a period and then withdrawing for a time and continuing independent activity . |
| 24 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |
| 25 | ''' That was exactly what the average person called on to make self-criticism thought : all that mattered was getting through the ritual humiliation , and then going for a drink . |
| 26 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 27 | As the moon moves round , part of its illuminated face becomes visible , first as a crescent and then swelling through a half moon into a gibbous shape . |
| 28 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 29 | Her veins ran fire , flashing back like a powder-train to the heart , and there bursting in a brilliance and violence such as she had never experienced or dreamed of . |
| 30 | A third film , embellished with live dialogue , showed one couple making friends with another at a restaurant , returning to an apartment and there engaging in a quartet . |