Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't be fighting all the time and the Iliad describes them hunting , fishing , boating and even playing draughts . |
| 2 | It was to be a very full weekend of well organised and highly enlightening meetings ; the opportunity to hear some excellent speakers : and the chance to renew old friendships and make new ones . |
| 3 | We do this in different ways — by carrying out investigations , by conducting experiments , by tasting , comparing , costing and even cooking things ! ! |
| 4 | The Zande found this very perplexing and assumed , perfectly logically , that by suppressing sanctions against witches , the British were inevitably condoning and even promoting witchcraft activities ! |
| 5 | Even in term , however , up to 450 people take lunch in the Lord Todd , which has a capacity for 200 , so there is plenty of work involved in serving and then clearing tables to accommodate all the diners . |
| 6 | Now it wants to expand from what is a relatively narrow base to create other catalyst uses and processes while maintaining and even enhancing quality . |
| 7 | The original documents are themselves artefacts , and there can be great value for pupils in seeing and even handling parchment and yellowed paper . |
| 8 | As things have changed round here , things are changing present time er which has so much , however , and there are other areas er just report will be reconsidered er and the right sort of er er area of cover er that we would wish to see and just cutting services , we 're talking about improving resources from an area which is clear to areas where there is no further issue , or etc. , etc. , there is not adequate cover . |
| 9 | In Prussia as a whole there was a discernible and understandable population shift , an Ostflucht ( literally : East flight ) from the poorly developed Spartan provinces of the east to the more ‘ civilised ’ , better developed and rapidly industrialising cities of the west . |
| 10 | Taking hold of the captives they dragged them away , struggling and still mouthing threats , in the direction of the ‘ prison ’ rig . |
| 11 | Worse ( < ) cold , uncovering , cold dry weather , eating and especially overeating stimulants , mornings , anger , mental exertion . |
| 12 | The police are now investigating and already trading standards officers have been contacted by half a dozen tenants and landlords who believe they 've lost out |
| 13 | The second principle : ‘ the system for quality is prevention ’ involves considering where errors could occur and then taking action to prevent them . |
| 14 | It is probable that it will be necessary to use the services of a nursing agency at this time because the evidence satisfies me that the tasks of the advertising for , interviewing and then appointing carers on a continuing basis will not be one which the plaintiff can carry out , nor will her sister Clare by then probably married with a family and perhaps living elsewhere , be able to undertake such frequent duties . |
| 15 | The year of grace is found in Saxon documents of both a royal and civil nature at this time , in the term ab incarnatione , sometimes supplementing and sometimes replacing dating by indiction — of which more later . |
| 16 | People from outside the college had been coming in freely , causing trouble , stealing and even beating students . |
| 17 | In 1814 an official proclamation noted that ‘ the practice of Stealing and Privately killing Cattle has become very prevalent throughout the British settlements in Ceylon . ’ |
| 18 | Unfortunately , safety was not one of the Dreadnoughts ' strong points , and there were some horrible accidents were one car , failing to stop in time , piled into the back of the other injuring and even killing passengers on the steps . |
| 19 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 20 | The new team must have some response which goes beyond tamely printing and busily marketing ream after ream of gilt-edged stock . |
| 21 | Or has this whole summer for Mansell been a fabrication of what he really felt , a means of getting out of his Ferrari contract by saying he was quitting and then holding Williams to ransom after they had backed themselves into a corner ? |
| 22 | 9.16 Developing neighbouring property Landlords frequently include a proviso stating that nothing contained in the lease shall prevent them from altering , adding to , refurbishing and generally executing works to neighbouring property . |
| 23 | But they are still surviving and they were surviving and still paying rent on land before nineteen forty nine . |
| 24 | ‘ Those great bully-boys of yours were insisting on dragging me away from the children , who were crying and practically having hysterics in the midst of all that noise and shouting . |
| 25 | ‘ Exercise and not drinking helps . ’ |
| 26 | B er , both today and Sunday look very good for socializing and generally enjoying life , but on Saturday I think it 's going to be very important to keep things in perspective . |
| 27 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |
| 28 | An obese person can strive to overcome such feelings by overeating and so gaining size , weight and ( subjectively speaking ) importance . |
| 29 | As far as the primary phase of schooling was concerned , the plan of development favoured the same activities as were listed in A Framework for the School Curriculum , except that more attention was devoted to history and geography , to expressive arts , and to science , and to the need for clearly structured and progressively demanding work in these areas of the curriculum . |
| 30 | The empirical approach is concerned with what is and what can be seen and touched , proceeding on the basis of testing and retesting and largely rejecting dogma and abstract or coherent grand designs for change . |