Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had known his man , and cared for what he knew , he could have battered Albany 's son and heir into surrender , instead of hauling his horse off from crushing or smothering him in the mud . |
| 2 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 3 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 4 | , but then , when you come to the lunatic fringe then supervisor 's will cut an awful lot of corners to prevent them busting up the office or punching somebody in the nose , a real , I do n't mean people who are just stroppy , I mean the real lunatic . |
| 5 | Assaulting a constable , or obstructing or resisting him in the execution of his duty are all specific statutory offences . |
| 6 | burning pet waste , or placing it in a sealed bag in a suitable container . |
| 7 | It was stated that authorities on the Japanese constitution did not see difficulty in fitting security provisions into a treaty or placing it in a discrete American-Japanese treaty . |
| 8 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 9 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 10 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 11 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 12 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 13 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 14 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 15 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |
| 16 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 17 | She remembered Doc Threadneedle suggesting she try sucking her finger and sticking it in an electric socket . |
| 18 | Like the smaller copepods , euphausiids are mainly herbivorous , combing algal cells from the water and gathering them in a basket-like arrangement of bristles on their many-jointed forelimbs . |
| 19 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 20 | He was milking the audience for all he could get : throwing the balls out in every direction and catching them in a windmill of arms . |
| 21 | It seems that the slimes and waste gravel from the mill were discharged directly into the beck which obligingly carried the man made detritus downstream and depositing them in the less boisterous places causing silting and then , during heavy rain , flooding . |
| 22 | Terry Dicks , not so well known , was crushing beer cans and tossing them in the direction of France . |
| 23 | The new mood turns the idea of what is received taste on its head by employing the use of sometimes ‘ naff ’ items from previous decades , and incorporating them in a fresh context . |
| 24 | For example polymethyl methacrylate ( Perspex , Plexiglas ) may be moulded to any desired shape by warming it to temperatures little over 100°C and cooling it in the deformed state . |
| 25 | By separating the glycerides from more readily available fats and assembling them in the required proportions it was possible to match the physical properties of cocoa butter . |
| 26 | 2 The Publisher shall be responsible for placing copies of the Program with Beta Testing assessors , for collecting feedback from these assessors and assembling it in a form which shall be interpretable as a specification to be met by the Programmer in preparing the final version of the Program . |
| 27 | The activity had been planned so that when children helped one another they would be using principles applied in problem-solving on one of the tasks and applying them in a new form on the other . |
| 28 | ‘ There , ’ he said , claiming her achievement as his own and inflating it in the process . |
| 29 | Bill cuts through the line after grabbing at thin air and landing it in an arbitrary process . |
| 30 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |