Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Manifesto is about making our country respected and secure , and helping you achieve a better , safer and more prosperous future . |
| 2 | In twenty minutes of sublime running and handling they dropped the proverbial ‘ bar of soap ’ just once . |
| 3 | In 1990 , he was charged with applying for a copy of a birth certificate in that name and using it to make a fraudulent passport application . |
| 4 | ‘ It looks as if they were interrupted at their meal , ’ he remarked , righting the overturned stool and using it to indicate a soiled trencher and several dusty earthenware mugs on the table . |
| 5 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 6 | It still preaches old-fashioned family values , rather than rolling up its sleeves and doing something to help the single-parent families and the thousands of homeless who exist on Britain 's streets . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's no use playing two wingers like Morrissey and Nevin and asking them to do the defensive bit for you . |
| 8 | It proposes packing foundation boards with regional cultural and professional bigwigs , in fixed proportions to local politicians , and letting them choose the savings-bank bosses . |
| 9 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 10 | Carers can be completely tied to their homes , their days a daily round of housework , laundry , dressing , feeding and toiletting which consumes a great deal of time and effort . |
| 11 | It was then still dark , and knowing I had a full day 's motoring ahead of me , I made an attempt to return to sleep . |
| 12 | However , there is a distinction between their own conclusions , and inviting them to draw a particular conclusion by inflaming their suspicions . |
| 13 | Seven of the patients in the well grown group were sexually mature ( Tanner stage 5 ) , and excluding them had no significant effect on the median serum IGF-I concentration ( reduced from 0.67 to 0.66 U/ml ) . |
| 14 | This is the creation of high quality artwork using material that may already exist in a number of forms and modifying it to suit the current need . |
| 15 | An obvious trophy , it afforded irrefutable proof that the victim was male , and obtaining it gave the additional satisfaction of dishonouring the corpse . |
| 16 | Then you 'd be plucking the sides to make it tidy and carrying it to make a round top sort of a roof on it . |
| 17 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 18 | As the year turns all sides are holding their breath and hoping it brings the good news the region needs to hear . |
| 19 | In these examples we can see the conflict between keeping an establishment on the medical model , and offering something approaching a real home . |