Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 2 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 3 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 4 | Terry Dicks , not so well known , was crushing beer cans and tossing them in the direction of France . |
| 5 | ‘ There , ’ he said , claiming her achievement as his own and inflating it in the process . |
| 6 | It 's a privilege and an honour for me to thank him , on your behalf , for coming here tonight and addressing us in the way he has . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
| 8 | " You can tell him , " I said , turning and looking him in the face , " that you were entirely mistaken ; that my boss really is my boss , and that I 'm not going to have a baby . " |
| 9 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |
| 10 | , Flora Jane ( 1876–1947 ) , writer , was born in Juniper Hill , a hamlet in north-east Oxfordshire , 5 December 1876 , the eldest child in the family of four daughters and two sons of Albert Timms , a stonemason , originally from Buckingham , and his wife Emma , a nursemaid , daughter of John Dibber from Stoke Lyne , an ‘ eggler ’ , who took his pony and cart around local farms , collecting eggs and selling them in the market town . |
| 11 | The plaintiff , by going to Eastbourne , obtaining the money , and remitting it in the manner suggested , made it a binding contract on the part of Mr. Kennard that he would not serve the bankruptcy notice . ’ |
| 12 | He raped the pregnant woman , whom he knew , at her Wigan home last autumn , after suddenly losing his temper and punching her in the face . |
| 13 | And here is the miracle wrought of changing mental thought into the material and enshrining it in the chemistry of the body for ever . |
| 14 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 15 | I remember once having to chase a man who had done something nasty to someone , and losing him in the darkness as he dashed down a cobbled mews . |
| 16 | The mass rally in Florence by the Christian Democrats — who are increasing their support in the south and losing it in the north — to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the start of the Christian Democrat movement , and the appeal to ‘ trust those who know how to govern ’ , seemed curiously old-fashioned and out of key . |
| 17 | He begins without ceremony by pulling off the blouse and flinging it in the gully . |
| 18 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 19 | She waited until he stabbed at her then , using her left forearm to block his wrist , she followed up by slamming the heel of her right hand against his chin and kneeing him in the groin . |
| 20 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 21 | ‘ The others hatched plans for him , like abducting Constanza and hiding her in the depth of Calabria . |
| 22 | The prosecution say that following an armed robbery at a building society near Gloucester in 1988 White had been due to give evidence against Gardiner and implicating him in the crime . |
| 23 | We talked earlier about reading a press release through and saying , ‘ So what ? ’ and dropping it in the bin . |
| 24 | ‘ Mummy , I want Mummy , ’ hitting him and butting him in the stomach with her head , like a little goat . |
| 25 | The scientific approach to the world of nature developed as a way of looking to see what was actually there and interpreting it in the light of its own evidence instead of simply accepting received , traditional wisdom . |
| 26 | But it needs to be borne in mind that such connections are not an automatic or necessary consequence of the formal structure of the poetry ; they are the result of the reader 's bringing his own sensibility and experience to bear on the text , and interpreting it in the light of his own conscious or unconscious idea of the nature and function of literature . |
| 27 | Conversation can also provide them with one of the most effective means for trying out ideas and modifying them in the light of the feedback received . |
| 28 | and putting it in the leg . |
| 29 | But John Wainfleet would only confess to taking Sean 's knife and putting it in the pond as a joke . |
| 30 | He 's saving three pounds a week and putting it in the post office at hoe . |