Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately you touched those bones , and all the others did the same , laughing and jostling to get at the coffin . |
| 2 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 3 | So while Sutton had been frantically interviewing and trying to cope with real stories , Pilger had been to the Regent Street studio of Carrol , Dempsey and Thirkell , designers of the two-month-old Independent , described by the middle classes hoping for better papers as ‘ a good deed in a naughty world ’ . |
| 4 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 5 | A : So would you if you 'd seen the Devil , snarling and slavering and trying to get in a window of the second floor of a students ' residence . |
| 6 | When we redesigned the bathroom in our Victorian terrace , we fitted a shower in one of the bedrooms , to allow dismantling and fitting to proceed at a more leisurely pace . |
| 7 | In the wives ' hostel Jocelyn finished unpacking and turned to look at the other occupant of the room a pleasant woman of thirty five who had introduced herself as Jane Smith . |
| 8 | As the Lollipops were finishing and preparing to go on tour , twenty-four Tiller Girls were in the Ziegfeld Follies and there were sixteen Sunshine Girls at the Globe Theatre . |
| 9 | meeting with the Education Department and Senior English Inspector once a year to account ( financially ) for what we are doing and to try to bargain for what we might get next year … |
| 10 | I stared at Gav from my bed , blinking and trying to take in this torrent of exponentially catastrophic information . |
| 11 | And all the time , like pipes dripping , weakening and preparing to burst in the attic , around the house hearts were slowly breaking while nothing was being said . |
| 12 | You would think we all agreed that acting to end third-world poverty was our number one priority , and that we would all , with barely a sigh of regret , give up our cars , our fridge-freezers and dishwashers , would cease commuting and return to live in the cities we abandoned for the good of our children , and would generally resume our lives as good citizens after 13 years in the desert . |
| 13 | The position of the crash was consistent with the aircraft entering the eastern entrance — flying just above sea level — with the intention of turning east after dropping and attempting to escape along the coast at low level . |
| 14 | It was a glimpse of the old Connors , fighting and refusing to walk down memory lane . |
| 15 | They saw him leave the room where they were sitting and begin to walk across a bar which lay between it and the entrance to the building . |
| 16 | The crew was accused of trespassing and asked to leave by the police , who were called by the vicar when they arrived |
| 17 | What is , however , a matter of concern is that within days of receiving and failing to reply to that letter , on 23 October 1991 , the local authority moved the children from the family friends with whom they had lived since 17 July 1991 and placed them with foster parents . |
| 18 | However , the bargain must be made well in advance ; it will only undermine your disciplinary strategy if you wait until he is lying on the floor , kicking and screaming and refusing to go to the shops , and then begin promising ice-cream . |
| 19 | Cotswold Wildlife Park aspires to show animals to people — so that they can come to understand and respect all forms of wildlife ; to understand what is special about each species , and how the various species have evolved and adapted over very long periods of time , adjusting and changing to survive in habitats from many parts of the earth . |