Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |
| 2 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 3 | The battles of Penselwood and Sherston were apparently inconclusive , although hard-fought in the case of the latter , but Edmund was able to relieve London , driving the enemy away and defeating them after crossing the Thames at Brentford . |
| 4 | While this is true , there are ways of minimising the problem , and eliminating it by altering the balance of the combustion in the diesel for the first , and by putting a particulate trap into the exhaust pipe for the second . |
| 5 | He was the spirit of Rangers ' resolution , defying Celtic and flaunting it by taking the ball for a walk into the distant corners of the Celtic defence whenever he could , destroying time , the Rangers ' enemy on the night . |
| 6 | • Offering midweek packages at competitive rates • Creating an autumn-winter weekend break package and Christmas programme , and promoting them by sending a mailshot to all past guests . |
| 7 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 8 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 9 | Emily ? … laughing and teasing him about deserving a white feather … ? |
| 10 | You can soon go and ask them cos some git 's gon na be coming over and hitting you for taking the |