Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps . |
| 2 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 3 | breaking their legs and kicking them in their bollo I mean balls , in the , in the , in the |
| 4 | He picked up one of the ashtrays and sat down in an armchair , crossing his legs and balancing it on his knee . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 7 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They started doing ‘ breakdown ’ [ lifting the boys above their heads and dropping them on the ground ] . |
| 11 | The Office of Fair Trading agreed that ‘ from a competition viewpoint there might be a great deal of benefit in combining the two funds and placing them on insurance principles , setting premiums on the basis of risk ’ . |
| 12 | If the scope of reason is confined to refining and systematising imperatives and deducing them from each other , how can it ever change their relation to the spontaneous ? |
| 13 | He was an inflexible , even fanatical supporter of the ultramontane line taken by Wiseman and Manning and often machinated against the other English bishops , exacerbating disputes and misrepresenting them to the pope . |
| 14 | As we go to press , however , LEAs are still drawing up their formulae and submitting them to the DES for approval . |
| 15 | It seems right to see Hubble 's greatness in recognising splendid opportunities and pursuing them with utmost devotion and superb vision . |
| 16 | His wife Josephine , 53 , said : ‘ John loves cleaning up old shell casings and turning them into umbrella stands . |
| 17 | Alright , what 's happening now , is that we 're taking resources away from those efficient sectors and giving it to inefficient agriculture . |
| 18 | Order Code : 9350 Total Disks : 1 This program is ideal for introducing children to computers and helping them with their spelling . |
| 19 | The researchers found that a change of curriculum from traditional academic subjects to topics of local relevance forced a change of roles for teachers and pupils ( the latter becoming knowledge-holders ) and a change of methods and time-tabling which in the end proved non-acceptable , least of all to parents who favoured the traditional approach as a gateway to success , and resisted innovation ( 17 ) . |
| 20 | A130 neighbours Braintree can do them a favour today by beating the islanders and condemning them to relegation , while improving their own lowly position in their first season at this level . |
| 21 | These rules can also be deduced by imagining that we try to send extra goods ‘ round the cycle ’ by increasing the flow of goods in edges corresponding to forward variables and reducing it in edges corresponding to reverse variables . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's no good ‘ effing and blinding ’ , ’ he remonstrated mildly , holding her firmly by the shoulders and inspecting her with a brilliantly dispassionate gaze . |
| 23 | He 'd obviously put his own glass down , because he halted her by grabbing her shoulders and bringing her to a halt . |
| 24 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |
| 25 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 26 | I came round the desk then and raised Mrs. Porter by slipping one arm around her shoulders and heaving her into a sitting position . |
| 27 | Absolutely , ’ he said , hooking an arm around the man 's shoulders and leading him from the porch . |
| 28 | Then he was smiling and laying a soft kiss against her lips before slipping one strong arm around her shoulders and leading her across the beach back to the house . |
| 29 | ‘ How much is really saved by reducing a species to a handful of survivors and banishing them to glorified captivity ? |
| 30 | Nicholson reached across the desk , grabbing Hugo by the lapels and pulling him towards him . |