Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to clarify the issues underlying such questions , drawing on and developing the appropriate economic theory , and to provide some concrete empirical evidence . |
| 2 | At the hotel he told the taxi to wait , and after checking in and having a quick clean-up in our rooms , we drove out to Teotihuacan . |
| 3 | A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager . |
| 4 | It concerns an executive who passed a mental hospital on his way to work and stopped occasionally to watch an inmate going through the motions of winding up and pitching an imaginary ball . |
| 5 | But I want to take my time over tackling up and savouring the prospect of the sport I hope to enjoy . |
| 6 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 7 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 8 | Flat-mount slide preparations were made by isolating the region of the hindbrain concerned , cutting at the dorsal midline , opening out and flattening the tissue , and mounting in glycerol . |
| 9 | Above the usual Fraggle style , the leaping around and smiling a lot stage presence , the Northampton four-piece have a frontman with a larger than life aura akin to Perry Farrell and Miles Hunt . |
| 10 | Cameron was shaking with laughter , looking on and making no move to help . |
| 11 | Colour some fondant icing ( about 225g/8oz ) green and roll out on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a similar-sized rectangle , and use to cover the cake drum , smoothing on and trimming the edges . |
| 12 | looking down and seeing the young man again . |
| 13 | SUMMERCHILD : A feeling of — I don t know — looking down and seeing the world stretching away over the horizon . |
| 14 | A CALL for Christians to join Muslims in hunting down and killing the novelist Salman Rushdie was made yesterday by the speaker of Iran 's parliament , Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri . |
| 15 | A CALL for Christians to join Muslims in hunting down and killing the novelist Salman Rushdie was made yesterday by the speaker of Iran 's parliament , Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri . |
| 16 | The first note , Disqualification of Directors — Statutory Reports , provides an explanation of the procedures involved in filling in and submitting a D-form to the disqualification unit at the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 17 | So vast quantities of stone were stockpiled along the way , and gangs of territorials , perhaps 1,000 in all , were set to work around the clock filling in and levelling the holes as they formed . |
| 18 | Mature trees make this an attractive place but there is no offer of hospitality and nothing to delay a walker from passing through and entering the fell road beyond . |
| 19 | By simply picking up and moving the categories ' names with the mouse I can reverse their positions and totally rebuild the worksheet … |
| 20 | It 's proved a good way of picking up and pigeonholing the plight of the young middle classes living in a country in retreat . |
| 21 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 22 | We start by picking up and examining the cube . |
| 23 | One visiting history adviser looking at a display of old washing equipment got the infants to explain by picking up and examining an old flat iron , looking for the flex and asking " But how did they plug this in ? " |
| 24 | So remember to treat yourselves , perhaps slowly saving up and buying a present for yourself or doing things you enjoy , as rewards for your achievements . |
| 25 | She is seen with Paris , whom she has persuaded to stay in Troy while his companions fight ; and Pandarus is also present , soaking up and intensifying the sensual atmosphere . |
| 26 | It prevents the hammer from bouncing up and hitting the string again . |
| 27 | This special art involves slightly fanning out and cramping the fore-edge to give a firm surface , and then painting on it , in very dry watercolours , a landscape or conversation piece . |
| 28 | The pilot , P/O Franek Surma steered the stricken aircraft away from the built-up area before bailing out and leaving the Spitfire to its ultimate fate . |
| 29 | They do n't want anyone sneaking off and getting the shot of the decade . ’ |
| 30 | Directors know this is going on and turn a blind eye . |