Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't remember a horse so far ahead in the Grand National at this stage ! ’ enthused commentator Julian Wilson on BBC television as Crisp came to Becher 's Brook for the second time , still looking uncatchable : galloping relentlessly and jumping brilliantly , he was thirty lengths clear and showed no signs of flagging . |
| 2 | Eating badly and gaining weight is an unpleasant experience , and should be so different from your new lifestyle that you never want to do it again . |
| 3 | The aim is to clarify the issues underlying such questions , drawing on and developing the appropriate economic theory , and to provide some concrete empirical evidence . |
| 4 | Follow up work to the study of original sources might include elements of reconstruction or re-creation , often drawing on and synthesising information from a range of sources . |
| 5 | The Government are hoping to carry on and according to the Secretary of State for the Environment the people will have to put up with the tax until 1993 . |
| 6 | First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates . |
| 7 | reflecting on and learning from experience . |
| 8 | Through reflecting on and discussing their experiences in the classroom , both successful and unsuccessful , teachers involved in LAMP and RAMP have found themselves better equipped to facilitate the mathematical development of their pupils . |
| 9 | Through reflecting on and articulating aspects of my Christian life and discipleship — my hopes and fears , my successes and failures — with someone who will help me look for the Spirit 's direction , my private world becomes shared , I can make more sense of my pilgrimage and continue in it supported . |
| 10 | And you were hanging on and trying to keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 11 | I ca n't see the exiles and émigrés banding together and achieving anything of importance but limited media coverage . ’ |
| 12 | I have just started using the medium of watercolour , struggling along and producing paintings of a particular subject . |
| 13 | In the past , inventors have been known to rush into print with their new discoveries to prevent the military stepping in and classifying it . |
| 14 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |
| 15 | The Construction Industry Research and Information Association ( CIRIA ) has been given the responsibility of gathering together and adding to what is known about the risks . |
| 16 | Chronic under-nutrition will lead to the child 's demanding less and becoming withdrawn so that the mother fails to provide any more . |
| 17 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 18 | But there were some good memories , particularly of one Polish vessel after we had rescued their lifeboat , broken down and drifting in adverse weather in the outer reaches of the lock with the mate and several crewmen on board . |
| 19 | How can he justify a cost per job in the strategic deterrent of £352,000 in a world in which the major powers are building down and renouncing weapons but he is building up ? |
| 20 | As a composer and conductor he was entirely self-taught , gaining experience by singing in and directing church choirs . |
| 21 | He traced the development of the Community College and role in bringing together and assisting local organisations . |
| 22 | The difference lies in bringing together and summarizing facts and opinions , to produce a judgement . |
| 23 | This , however , only reflects the complexity of the area and the difficulties of bringing together and understanding the diverse responses of individuals . |
| 24 | It 's a way of bringing together and mixing people , with lots of opportunities for candid camera shots of folk with their everyday guards down . |
| 25 | You feel more confident do n't you in a group situation if you know exactly what people er er know or what they do n't know , cos there 's nothing worse is n't there than to go in and thinking they may already know this , I might be going in an teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here , I 'm not sure what they know about this . |
| 26 | The key factor in all these possibilities is the capability of drawing together and distributing a wide range of interactive facilities within a single information environment . |
| 27 | But if Ken wanted to sit in and watching the good results coming in |
| 28 | It is hard to escape the implication that a major source of this taboo is the sense that the priest kneeling down and washing women 's ‘ naked ’ feet would be somehow both sexual and polluting to the sacred . |
| 29 | One of the biggest obstacles to an efficient industrial society is the instinctive feeling that equates emitting less carbon dioxide with privation — using less energy , producing less and losing profits . |
| 30 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |