Example sentences of "[noun] and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
2 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
3 | It will be helping with localisation and pushing it on Apple Computer Inc 's Power Book line . |
4 | It is a way of thinking and expressing oneself in language that is radically different from conversational speech . |
5 | Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps . |
6 | procedure for taking goods out of stock and transferring them to the shop floor |
7 | This is merely the reaction time required in picking up the card and placing it on a pile without making any choice based on the value of the card . |
8 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
9 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere erm saving of time in a librarian taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
10 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
11 | breaking their legs and kicking them in their bollo I mean balls , in the , in the , in the |
12 | He picked up one of the ashtrays and sat down in an armchair , crossing his legs and balancing it on his knee . |
13 | Only towards Pen had she let her guard slip and that was because he himself claimed her as his own , rushing into his mother 's bedroom and hurling himself into Wilson 's arms . |
14 | Common methods of ink sharing include embedding ink in existing documents , files or databases and sending it via electronic mail ; providing clipboard operations ; and supporting inter-application transfers . |
15 | She was going to murder Margaret tomorrow , going off with Dennis and leaving them like that . |
16 | It 's all right , ’ Sarah said , picking up the purse and giving it to her . |
17 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
18 | Loving both Augustus Egg and Pablo Picasso and visiting them for decades under the same roof , I feel sentimental about tearing them asunder forever . |
19 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
20 | His young boss was catching the little animals and handing them to Rory who held them upside down , gripped between his thighs with their legs apart , and as I quickly incised the scrotums and drew out the testicles my blade almost touched the rough material of his trouser crutch . |
21 | As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net . |
22 | ‘ Socrates was the first man who thought about thinking , ’ she said , sitting on the window seat and surprising him in every way . |
23 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |
24 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
25 | Joe , I 'm not seeking to close down on discussion about item er , three , one and three , three but in view of the discussion we took this morning , you took this morning about the capital building programme and referring it to er , P A G , may I suggest that they both go that way , unless you have any particular comments to add to . |
26 | But it will do so strictly within the framework of the democratic process by giving up any legal and political advantages , presenting its programme and defending it in discussions , [ and ] co-operating with other social and political forces … |
27 | The statistical error on N is , so that the achievable precision in measuring can be estimated by replacing dN by in this equation and rewriting it as an expression for : . |
28 | It depends on the simple and indisputable fact that ideas and cultural artefacts travel , hopping from continent to continent and distributing themselves about the world in the wake of migrations and along trade routes . |
29 | Adrenalin surged through her veins , clearing her mind and filling her with determination . |
30 | She waited for morning , the words playing through her mind and keeping her from sleep . |