Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By lowering the height of the wall , and thereby enabling it to be built more thickly , it could be made more effective in both defence and counter-attack . |
| 2 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 3 | And only letting it to friends and I suggest |
| 4 | A vomitoxin can be absorbed through the skin , causing a soldier to remove his mask to vomit and thus exposing him to other toxic agents , through his respiratory system . |
| 5 | It 's it 's just the strains that I 've had to go through , raising her up , and the time and the energy and just having myself to be sane , you know and and well ! |
| 6 | So I think th th that the one thing which is good I think , is a possibility of re-opening it up , and possibly using it to a fuller extent , which might actually give it er , er , new lease of life . |
| 7 | Lady Weighall was also responsible for laying out Jubilee Park , opposite Petwood , and later gifting it to the authorities . |
| 8 | We can work with the class to create a story in which they all have a stake , slowing it down at particular moments , thereby creating strong dramatic tension , deepening understanding and also enabling us to value publicly the contribution of particular children . |
| 9 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 10 | ‘ We do try and do things a little differently for them like giving them complementary fruit and maybe upgrading them to an executive room . ’ |
| 11 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 12 | It does a thorough job of not only testing each part of the hard disk but it also saves any data on the disk while doing so by reading all usable tracks into memory before reformatting the track and then writing it to disk again in the same place — provided it was usable . |
| 13 | An example saw the head of the household getting out of his bed at midnight on 13th May , filling his mouth with black beans and then spitting them to the floor , saying : |
| 14 | As Citrine had earlier told his colleagues , a tactical retreat of accepting the Minister 's suggestion and then showing it to be ineffective would enable them better to assert their independence in future . |
| 15 | They shielded the broadcasters from outside pressure — from all directions , not just from the politicians — and they reviewed the broadcasters ' work , explaining , justifying and sometimes excusing it to government and the public . |
| 16 | They just get a kick out of bringing home a project they 've worked on and proudly showing it to other people . ’ |
| 17 | Line 's paper takes a slightly different approach , estimating ( in 1983 ) the average cost of an inter-library borrowing to a requesting library in UK to be approximately £4 , and the average price of a book to be £10 plus £7 or £8 for acquisition and processing , and therefore deducing it to be cheaper to make five borrowings of a title before purchase . |