Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm come here a young girl and a baby , and helping to install her in in on one of the flats , and just sort of e th there was something erm happened to be wrong with one of the rubbish chutes at that time , and we were actually kicking our way through rubbish on the stairs , erm near the chute to get erm to come up . |
| 2 | The females , young and old , crowd around the newcomer , rumbling murmurs among themselves , caressing it with their trunks and helping to free it from its birth membranes . |
| 3 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 4 | Use bold capitals , headlines , sub-heads and underlining Provide plenty of guideposts and signs to assist later retrieval and revision . |
| 5 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 6 | This leads to senior officers and their departments becoming increasingly secretive about their work and refusing to discuss it with others who might offer a better sense of judgement . |
| 7 | Ruth was still clutching it tightly in her hand as later he closed the door of his hotel suite behind them , locking out the world and turning to draw her into his arms . |
| 8 | He was much the same height as Hotspur , and much the same build , though twenty years at least older , and a century more crafty , and there was always the curious suggestion about him that he was ready and waiting to fit himself into the void if ever Hotspur slipped out of being . |
| 9 | However , it was not all one-sided and Hammer gave a good account of themselves in the first half , restricting Haslemere to one goal and going close themselves with long-range shots . |
| 10 | It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria . |
| 11 | There is , for most of the century , no simple suggestion of a dominant class resisting a popular culture and attempting to supplant it with a preferred alternative , but rather a willingness not only to tolerate it but to accept a functional involvement . |
| 12 | James Shaw , 33 , unemployed , of Nelson Drive , Littleham , Exmouth , denies conspiring to murder Mr Brown between June 1 and September 14 last year and attempting to murder him between August 13 and 16 . |
| 13 | Harris , of Shieldhall Road , West Drumoyne , Glasgow , had been found guilty of assaulting Mr Brown and attempting to murder him on 18 February last year in Shieldhall Road . |
| 14 | In relation to our " design-and-society " problem , design , in rending itself from the social fabric and attempting to construct itself as an independent discipline — and having constructed its own pantheon of values and principles with only tangential relation to the social — becomes , quite literally , socially unintelligible . |
| 15 | Last month , David Walters , 56 , former director of the Institute of Retail Studies and Professor of Retailing at Stirling , had pled guilty to defrauding the university of £14,631 and attempting to defraud it of £345 . |
| 16 | Anthony McDonald , 29 , of Deanston Road , Shawlands , Glasgow , admitted wearing a mask and presenting an axe at an employee of the Bank of Scotland , Kilmarnock Road , Glasgow , and attempting to rob him on 20 January . |
| 17 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 18 | Gibraltar , for instance , is often used to hold Spanish assets , although the Spanish tax authorities are aware of the situation and attempting to limit it at least as far as the holding of real property is concerned . |
| 19 | For the uninitiated , they met 18 months ago , enjoying a common outlook on music and deciding to take it from there . |
| 20 | Erm you would n't have you would n't be releasing Michelle back and losing losing her to testing . |
| 21 | overworking you and failing to provide you with reasonable support ; |
| 22 | More women are taking up regular exercise and coming to see it as part of their lives . |
| 23 | But Edward was stunned last week to receive an abrupt letter from the DoE accusing him of ‘ damaging ’ their land and threatening to take him to court . |
| 24 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 25 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |
| 26 | Set aside regular periods each day to spend time with your puppy , playing with it , grooming it and starting to familiarize it with its collar and lead , and other equipment . |
| 27 | Ruby had told of buying a pair of corsets and having to carry them along Church Street unwrapped . |
| 28 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 29 | Marie told him about Mr Bishop being drunk and getting himself drowned ; about Gazzer finding Madge wandering along the prom and having to take her to Mr Bishop 's brother because she was n't responsible for herself . |
| 30 | it was nothing for you to have the er sole of your sh shoe flapping off and having to wear 'em till the p there was a little man that used to mend the shoes in Hirael there and you 'd go to him and he 'd put a couple of nails , never charge you for it you know . |