Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worms can only live in compostable material so there 's no fear of them making a bid for freedom and eating their way through the vegetable patch . |
| 2 | Naturally , Hannah had to take her place on the Baldersdale treadmill , working to the orders of her uncle in the fields ( her father died when she was an infant ) and assisting her mother in the kitchen and wash house . |
| 3 | What remains For MacDonald and Wimpey , of course , is patenting their process and cloning their hybrid for the purpose of franchising . |
| 4 | ESSEX all-rounder Mark Waugh hit a majestic 121 as New South Wales reached 349–4 against the West Indies yesterday , ending a run of four successive ducks and proving his form to the Australian selectors . |
| 5 | ‘ Then he 's not far off , ’ said the thin man , keeping a sharp look-out on the surrounding trees and resting his hand on the pommel of his short sword . |
| 6 | There seems little prospect of the pain clinics in this study meeting these targets and maintaining their service within the constraints of existing resources . |
| 7 | recognising reimbursable expenses attributable to jobs , categorising them correctly and maintaining their separation from the operating costs of the business ; |
| 8 | On the face of it , this is a month when you should be concentrating on your future and accepting your share of the limelight . |
| 9 | Their opponents have been through the mangle recently , going out of two cup competitions courtesy of Bangor and seeing their lead at the top of the table cut to a slender one point . |
| 10 | Favouring Edmund , stressing their brotherhood , and bringing their treaty to the fore diminished the extent to which Cnut looked a usurper . |
| 11 | After setting up and completing their work on the beaches , on 10 July , No 6 Beach Group was dissolved . |
| 12 | The Hungarians reacted by calling for an emergency meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE ) and submitting its case to the International Court of Justice . |
| 13 | She sighed , then twisted on her stool to gaze in astonishment because a car was thumping and crashing its way along the dirt road that led from the island 's one village to Bonefish 's sprawl of shacks . |
| 14 | Expecting him to be amused , she was astonished when he swore , explicitly and very fluently , before draining the rest of his coffee in one swallow and thumping his cup on the mantelpiece . |
| 15 | Auks have evolved into rather specialised birds ; they have become adapted to finding and catching their food beneath the sea surface to the extent that they arc unable to do things any other way . |
| 16 | ‘ On the dole , more likely , ’ says Sandra , suppressing a yawn , and checking her appearance in the mirrored wall behind her mother 's back . |
| 17 | Laura yawned , cuddling up closer to him and pressing her cheek into the curve of his shoulder . |
| 18 | The assumption , which the project sets out to test , is that the State is increasingly withdrawing from the business of providing services but strengthening and widening its role as the regulator of services produced by others in the private and voluntary sectors . |
| 19 | The injury-prone versatile Northampton player lasted just 39 minutes before dislocating his shoulder and booking his place on the plane home . |
| 20 | Unable to save herself , with a startled cry she pitched forward , tumbling down the remaining stairs and banging her head on the stone floor . |
| 21 | Now , now , ’ said Lee , nearly shouting and banging his head against the shed so hard that the whole thing shook . |
| 22 | I could hear him bawling and banging his way through the Nissen hut across the way . |
| 23 | The cultural revival has been planned for years by members of the good old Council , members that prefer to stay in the background , having achieved the astounding feat of legislating and pedestrianising their way through the licensing laws , to an atmosphere of continental cultural Bonhomie from Blairdardie to Baillieston . |
| 24 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 25 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 27 | With a gasp she was on her feet and pushing her way to the door . |
| 28 | Instead of having to stand on his head , he is runing hard and pushing his shoulder to the wheel because , of course , he is a member of the No Turning Back group . |
| 29 | So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before . |
| 30 | Highly successful in commending himself to a variety of audiences and communicating his project with the Dhalit people . |