Example sentences of "[prep] and [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now you devote a whole issue ( NI 179 ) to a ridiculous game — giving gold medals to the countries you approve of and dumping on the countries you do n't . |
| 2 | On his ‘ Big Red Train Ride ’ in 1977 , Eric Newby found these class approaches to the catching of and waiting for the trains , which have been such a characteristic of colonial societies in India and Africa , still very much the norm in the communist countries . |
| 3 | She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust . |
| 4 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 5 | They emerged as I began thinking about and writing about the data I collected . |
| 6 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 7 | It is also members of this group who have the strongest personal motivation for thinking about and working on the educational system , for they in the main are the teachers with young children of their own , at the beginning of their school careers . |
| 8 | Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison . |
| 9 | And there are many more up and coming in the wings — thankfully . |
| 10 | By praying with and sharing in the enthusiasm of the Elect there is an opportunity for all to turn to God and find the Holy Spirit anew . |
| 11 | Individuals , through love , become real social beings , each identifying with and loving through the other . |
| 12 | To inquire into and thereby establish the fullest possible account and the civil liberties implications of the role of the police , the police authorities and the criminal courts in the events arising from and relating to the NUM dispute which began in March 1984 ( see NCCL Report 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Well I 've got the window back in and working with the hand thing but I need drills to drill holes for the fittings and it really |
| 14 | Species roses As remarked with regard to the English roses above , and in addition to the crossing back of the new with the old , there has been a return to and seeking after the more simple and unsophisticated beauties of the species roses , their forms and near hybrids . |
| 15 | They acknowledge that elephants and man , for instance , have a very close relationship , having climbed the evolutionary ladder side by side , losing hair together , returning to and re-emerging from the sea again , growing warm blood , emotion and long memories . |
| 16 | The local and regional networks were based on the railways with animal power feeding to and distributing from the stations . |
| 17 | One of the things that concerns us is provision for people who are unemployed and we are we are speaking and working , speaking to and working with the Labour Group and the Labour Party on establishing a centre for people who are unemployed . |
| 18 | I 'm thinking particularly of the footpaths leading to and climbing up the side of Malham Cove , where artificial ways have had to be created to cope with erosion caused by millions of feet . |
| 19 | I lay staring at the People below , coming to and going from the Silberner Hirsch . |
| 20 | It is not merely the study of dogmas as accumulated down through the centuries ( as in the Roman Catholic understanding of dogmatics ) , but their critical subordination to and testing by the primary and original dogma , which is nothing other than Jesus Christ himself . |
| 21 | a method of binding a paper cover to a book by drawing the cover on and gluing to the back of the book . |
| 22 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 23 | It ended in a choking splutter as Sir Thomas , following Nancy 's tragic end , collapsed to his knees , clutching at and dragging over the lectern , and then falling to the floor where he lay as insensible as Nancy herself . |
| 24 | There are , however , still many opportunities to see ocean liners arriving at and departing from the island . |
| 25 | Defined as the " executive apparatus of presidential authority " ; headed by a Premier chosen by and reporting to the President , and comprising around 15 heads of ministries and departments in charge of " those spheres of government assigned to the Union in keeping with the allocation of powers between the Union and the republics " , plus the heads of republican governments ; replaced the 69-member Council of Ministers , responsible directly to the Supreme Soviet . |
| 26 | The assets of enterprises created by and working under the supervision of local authorities , as well as all other state-owned assets ( for example , shares in the Hungarian National Bank ) , are reserved for separate legislation . |