Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the children who were living far away , they brought a sandwich and a flask with them and eating in the desk in the classroom . |
| 2 | ‘ Confidential informant ’ , like ‘ cooperating individual ’ , usually means that the snitch in question was , or is , engaged in drug trafficking and cooperating with the DEA in order to avoid imprisonment . |
| 3 | But one morning at breakfast he was reading music and listening to the tune in his head , when he heard a musical voice which seemed to become part of his tune . |
| 4 | The difference between Weber 's position and the more sophisticated Marxisms which see culture as relatively autonomous and interacting with the economy in a reciprocal ( or ‘ dialectical ’ ) relationship is perhaps not great . |
| 5 | Additionally however , we need to make it clear that when we have looked at the figures and I would pay some to the opposition for bringing er some matters to our attention , erm and looking at the way in which very , very careful on the part of this council has led to a better reserve position than we would previously have expected . |
| 6 | ‘ Better than your eyesight , ’ said the old woman , standing next to him and looking at the grey in his hair . |
| 7 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 8 | We finished our coffee and watched the seagulls whirling and shrieking over the harbour in the spring sunshine . |
| 9 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 10 | He remembered about twenty-five young children coming and going to the house in Reading . |
| 11 | He wished he had n't spotted it as it made him think of this morning and going round the house in Hill View Road , and the idea his Mum and Dad had about moving . |
| 12 | The journey went on and on — before long we were travelling at a walking pace , and I and the few other passengers were anxiously clearing the condensation from the windows and peering into the murk in an effort to see where we were . |
| 13 | With the album of ‘ The Commitments ’ defying the odds and selling by the truckload in the States in particular , and new albums by major stars like Enya and U2 on the way , the profile of Irish music on the world stage over the coming months will be exceptionally high . |
| 14 | Thrusting and grinding around the stage in unison with her dancers , she made the message clear — ‘ I 'm no longer safe little Charlene ’ . |
| 15 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 16 | The victory laid to rest any doubt that may have emerged about the VP 's continued authority following a weaker showing in local council elections earlier in August ( when the VP held only two of four municipalities , losing one and tying with the opposition in the fourth ) . |
| 17 | They took to each new form of transport enthusiastically , motoring across Europe and the States in the twenties and taking to the air in the thirties . |
| 18 | The five Annamese , grunting with pain continued stumbling and staggering around the circle in grotesque imitation of bounding hares while the next group of victims were thrown down in the dirt . |
| 19 | Enraged that he should take it on himself to tell her the state of her own business , and bristling at the manner in which he spoke of her precious son , Esther said sharply , ‘ Whatever is or is not in the coffers is nothing whatsoever to do with you ! |
| 20 | The particular business can be briefly summarized as filling the vacant patriarchate of Constantinople , hearing the primatial claims of the archbishop of Toledo and dealing with the heresy in the lands of the count of Toulouse . |
| 21 | The whole of the following morning was spent gardening and weeding in the area in front of the building ; there was the gravel to be raked and the flowerbeds to be kept tidy . |
| 22 | She did not reflect that only a few weeks ago she would have thought it impossible that she could have lived the life of a servant , let alone bear eating and drinking in the den in which Rose and her ma lived , but she did know one thing — she would never take her comfortable life for granted again . |
| 23 | The English expectation of life , in the 1880s , was only 43.7 years — by 1940 this had become 60.2 and increasing with the advancement in medical care — and between 1870 and 1900 , the British Empire was increased territorially by a half and its population by a third . |
| 24 | By sheer force of will she ignored the sounds of pattering and gnawing near the body in the corner . |
| 25 | But as I think I have said already , I can recall vividly the way the last of the daylight was coming through each open doorway and falling across the corridor in orange shafts . |
| 26 | The fulling mill had a large wheel , turned by the water power , which activated wooden hammers , rising and falling on the cloth in soapy water . |
| 27 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 28 | He can not write for the papers or take part in television programmes and his sole opportunities in public are sharing the replies at question time and answering for the government in adjournment and sometimes in wider debates which concern his ministry . |
| 29 | A return to the eternal verities might be in order , but even then you can still end up clean shaven , well trousered and blazered and commentating for the pie in the Sky . |