Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked with our students about the freedoms of college life , and suggested that they might judge whether or not certain behaviour was ‘ age appropriate ’ by looking at the nursery nurses ( incorrectly and naïvely assuming the latter would unfailingly provide the models we sought ! ) . |
| 2 | This produces the stress of tiring ambulance journeys , the long wait in the clinic and not seeing the same staff at each visit . |
| 3 | Many articles have appeared in the amateur radio press and elsewhere describing the many aspects of propagation and giving more detailed information on the theory of and effects of solar radiation on communications systems . |
| 4 | He sat at his desk looking over the same papers and repeatedly having the same conversations but unable to take decisions or achieve anything . |
| 5 | This procedure is not restricted to one subassembly : a part can be checked against all other adjoining subassemblies by moving up the hierarchical structure one level , an adjacent sub-assembly file and then performing the same vertical search . |
| 6 | Holding a length of silk in its beak , it then pierces a hole in the leaf and pushes the silk through it , tying a little knot in the end to prevent the thread from slipping back through the hole and then doing the same thing on the other side so that the two leaf surfaces are secured to one another . |
| 7 | Oliver remained in Fagin 's room for many days , picking the marks and names out of the handkerchieves and sometimes playing the same game as before . |
| 8 | We will consider four different firms in the same risk class and therefore having the same required discount rate ( r = 15% ) , and the same initial dividend and earnings ( d o = 1 , y o = 2 ) , but with four different growth assumptions : |