Example sentences of "[noun] and [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the truck had stopped , Leo was under its offside wheel and starting the long , complicated journey to the spirit world . |
| 2 | Instead , they have concentrated on two main approaches to crime control that they see as appropriate and achievable : increasing the risks and decreasing the opportunities . |
| 3 | No boiling kettles and lugging the bath in from the yard . |
| 4 | He did n't want to produce and I did n't want to produce , so we ended up writing songs and making the record together . ’ |
| 5 | But first I shall be consulting my solicitors , the League Managers ' Association and suing the club for unfair dismissal , without a shadow of doubt . |
| 6 | A Russian scientist has attempted to mimic that development by starting with wild foxes and breeding the most timid ones . |
| 7 | It was thus found that the majority of the reaction time required was in identifying the values of the card and choosing the pile onto which it should be placed . |
| 8 | However the team does not roll the die but begins its turn by pulling a new card and sketching the word corresponding |
| 9 | The Carriage is set as for stocking stitch , except that the carriage must be reading the card and selecting the needles . |
| 10 | The same critical and questioning attitude which was forming the new approach to the Bible was at the same time stimulating scientific study and experiment and discovering the regularities in the natural order — what were and commonly still are called ‘ the laws of nature ’ . |
| 11 | The front driver 's side of the bus was driven back twelve feet amputating Mr Wright 's legs and killing the three students . |
| 12 | Thirty years after his death in 716 , Boniface criticized him for his disregard of the laws of the Church and for his personal immorality and depicted him as struck with madness while feasting with his nobles , so that he died ‘ gibbering with demons and cursing the priests of God ’ . |
| 13 | Without both , divide-and-rule tactics will open the way to ranking oppressions and putting the groups against each other . |
| 14 | You mentioned boxing and that 's a sort of legitimate violence which takes place in a limited area and which people watch because presumably they enjoy it , but do n't wish to particularly partake in themselves , and whereas it 's all right for people to punch each other 's heads in the boxing ring , they would object to people coming outside the boxing ring and punching the spectators ' heads . |
| 15 | Finding one was Coleman 's first assignment for Operation Goldenrod , in between setting up a NARCOG listening post in his back bedroom and instructing the Cypriot Police Force Narcotics Squad ( CPFNS ) in electronic surveillance . |
| 16 | He negotiated Malaya 's independence from the United Kingdom two years later and was the country 's first Prime Minister , overseeing the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 , and during the next two years withstanding the threat of " Confrontation " with Indonesia and taking the difficult decision that Singapore secede from the Federation . |
| 17 | You can do this by driving on a quiet , wide road with no traffic about , gradually increasing your speed and moving the steering slightly to produce a very slight weave . |
| 18 | For sheer brilliance one need look no further than the early Prokofiev Toccata , its cascades of notes played with furious energy and incisive clarity , or the Poulenc Presto , taken at a breathtaking speed and displaying the most astonishing Fingerfertigkeit . |
| 19 | Try circling at low speed and reversing the turn to get the feel of the ailerons . |
| 20 | Developing stance and harness technique ; increasing speed and closing the slot ; effective use of the mast track on all points of sailing |
| 21 | Since 1979 , the Post Office has contributed more than £1 billion in negative external financing limit payments , at 1991 prices , cutting back on investment and milking the customer . |
| 22 | Although a proportion of this was absorbed in investment and servicing the growing national debt , the bulk financed a great expansion of the apparatus of the State . |
| 23 | … because the economic situation is now more serious than at any time over the last 25 years , the Government decided that resources must be released for investment and improving the balance of payments … |
| 24 | But gardening may be described as the activity of interfering with natural plant succession and preventing the establishment of a climax community . |
| 25 | The thermostat of an immersion heater can usually be adjusted by turning off the double-pole switch and removing the heater cover . |
| 26 | He 'd end up beating his wife , bullying his kids and eating the parrots . |
| 27 | Some leading exponents of the popular movement believed that if large quantities of money were sent to support the Uprising they would , instead , destroy it by creating political jealousies and deflecting the Uprising from the central theme of self-reliance . |
| 28 | An allegation of dishonesty , however small the amount , is never a minor matter for a defendant and choosing the appropriate venue for a criminal trial is not just a matter of considering whether the magistrates ' court has adequate sentencing powers . |
| 29 | Since the original storage medium for software is paper tape , surviving data and software libraries can be captured and preserved on modern hardware by interfacing to contemporary optical tape readers and storing the programs in a form that can executed by the simulator . |
| 30 | He heads the department dealing with training for radio presentation and travels widely taking training sessions and teaching the use of recording equipment . |