Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 2 | That magnificent engineering achievement the Humber Bridge is further opening up the area , improving communications and eventually leading to an East Coast motorway , linking up with newly completed roads on the north bank . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I believe that her fear of losing control of her eating and thus developing into an adult woman , which makes her fight against her ever-present hunger , is understandable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ How can you respect bashing in a bolt and just waiting for a robot to take over your job ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A major purveyor of Tory gossip and still looking for a job . |
| 14 | Here she was in her sixties and still dreaming like a schoolgirl about a man . |
| 15 | After Joyce … it seems that we are more and more moving towards an age of fiction in which … invention and imagination may finally become the subject of the book . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | What , and now going for a head , hit the bar . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ''' 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 . |