Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't think people interrupting and shouting this evening will solve anything quite clearly . |
2 | Minton himself saw what was happening and abandoned this practice around 1951 — 2 . |
3 | Mention this feature when booking and take this coupon with you on the day and you 'll be entitled to a £10 discount ! |
4 | The second chapter of Politics among Nations is devoted to explaining and justifying this claim . |
5 | This year is important , and we intend to be in the forefront of promoting and supporting this EEC initiative . |
6 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
7 | Susanna spent five years developing and writing this book . |
8 | ‘ It is appalling that we are aiding and abetting this kind of cruelty . |
9 | However , there is a widespread feeling that the balance of power has shifted too far toward developers and that the Department of the Environment is aiding and abetting this process through the appeal system . |
10 | And as he mulls over his reasons for behaving as he has and for writing and publishing this record , the footnote status of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ causes it to embrace a wide range of familiar themes . |
11 | TGAT had the job of rationalising and elaborating this instruction so that subject working groups would operate to a common format . |
12 | If you are planning to move house , please could you let us know by simply completing and returning this form to WWF . |
13 | Expectations are set at an early stage : that the therapist can only offer education and advice , and the client is responsible for assimilating and applying this information . |
14 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
15 | But , of course , overlaying and underlying this trans-parency were the old tribal and family feuds and enmities which had put most of the followings into the rival camps in the first place . |
16 | Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service . |
17 | The adequacy of current methods of providing and exchanging this information ; |
18 | Awareness within the student body of Napier Enterprise Centre is growing rapidly , with regular publicity on notice boards and in the student newsletter supporting and augmenting this awareness ; the higher the profile that Napier Enterprise Centre achieves amongst the students of Napier , the more the student enterprise activities will multiply . |
19 | Bill Wyman has a daughter fixation with a capital D , and in his fantasies he saw himself moulding and educating this girl into a beloved daughter . |
20 | This throws the Mob into disorder and prevents all moving and shooting this turn . |
21 | Sixteen-year-old Scott , from a London theatre school , will be dancing and singing this message : |
22 | Perhaps there is an argument for clarifying and formalising this co-operation . |
23 | One way of recognizing and analysing this complexity is that of constructing models of buying behaviour . |
24 | As a as a churchgoer and a committed christian I mean I I quoted earlier on this morning from the Sun newspaper this morning which is ranting and raving this morning on the subject of erm well it claims that the the Archbishop of Canterbury er Dr Carey is saying that erm Charles could never be king of this country erm because erm he had an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles |
25 | I argue that the alternative formulation situates jobs in a general theory of social structure , whereas the sociology of the professions has either been confined to ‘ middle range ’ theorising and ignored this problem or sought to bridge the gap between jobs and the social order by empirical statements based on implicit and ( therefore ) ill-formulated theories . |
26 | On selecting and leaving this option , this field will default to the directory from which you have invoked LIFESPAN . |
27 | Once you have mastered finding and maintaining this position you are ready to sail . |
28 | The point is that so much economic growth in Latin America , from the enclave economy to contemporary multinationals , has been brought about by foreign concerns , which has denied the local entrepreneurial groups their historic role in leading , organising and financing this process . |
29 | What professionals discuss informally at conferences and on other occasions , within and across agency lines , is as important as contributions to journals in setting and sustaining this mood . |