Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 2 | Try folding a VDU in half and stuffing it in your pocket . |
| 3 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 4 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 5 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 6 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 7 | This involved focusing on medium-sized towns one alter another and blitzing them with publicity . |
| 8 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
| 9 | Six and moving it to the afternoon yes , it 's er a nice question . |
| 10 | LUKE SAT ON AN expo love-seat in Club World at Heathrow , drinking Volvic and availing himself of a complimentary fax machine — clearing up the initial paperwork with Mike on the poem . |
| 11 | Instead he waited until stragglers ventured outside the walls and then picked them off one by one , capturing the Dwarfs alive if possible and tormenting them for days within earshot of the citadel walls . |
| 12 | Mooning around knowing it was all quite hopeless and getting lots of good creative material from the experience . |
| 13 | Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public . |
| 14 | And er getting back to that and cleaning it with a real good clean every single week . |
| 15 | The Enchantment of Slumber … gentle and strong and wrapping itself about you … |
| 16 | Surely you are saving these and taking them to FOE , Whitehouse Road . |
| 17 | Understandably , perhaps , there is a strong temptation to try to avoid these difficulties by taking qualities as basic and confining oneself to the idea of a plurality of qualities , with particulars being interpreted as bundles of qualities . |
| 18 | Oban was a different kind of noise and fat bare-armed people wearing far too much white and doing nothing but staring . |
| 19 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 20 | Yet , there also appear dangers in resting content with proposing apparent similarities between past and present and leaving them on the table , as it were . |
| 21 | I hope you are all well and getting plenty of sleep . |
| 22 | As an ex-Catholic , ex-alcoholic , ex-hippie fifty-something from New Orleans , dressed in goth-style black and looking something like an old-fashioned schoolmistress , Anne Rice is not your typical American bestseller author . |
| 23 | A new grouping , the Boere Weerstandsbeweging ( BWB — a splinter group of the AWB formed on June 11 and describing itself as the armed wing of the BP ) , pledged solidarity with the BP in its aim of re-establishing former Boer republics . |
| 24 | Somehow you got down here , where you have been since , quietly starving and poisoning yourself to death . |
| 25 | I should like the opportunity of starving and beating you to a pulp . |
| 26 | But is it true that we learn just by virtue of being busy and having lots of experiences ? |
| 27 | His own mother had been , and to some extent remained , an intrusive presence in his life , and he had started to shut her out by keeping busy and doing everything for himself . |
| 28 | ‘ Whatever is it ? ’ shrieked the old lady , shaking her loose and holding her at arm 's length . |
| 29 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 30 | Here the rulers are going to the ruled and examining them from their point of view . |