Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 2 | contacting employers and encouraging them to use the ES to fill their vacancies ; |
| 3 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |
| 4 | This Manifesto is about making our country respected and secure , and helping you achieve a better , safer and more prosperous future . |
| 5 | These days , of course , now that I am a grown woman , I would have little problem with saying I was feeling ill and suggesting we take a break for a few minutes . |
| 6 | In twenty minutes of sublime running and handling they dropped the proverbial ‘ bar of soap ’ just once . |
| 7 | The judge knew this man of old : he was the pit-bull of the legal profession , attacking any weak spots with devastating precision , and seeing him ended the Judge 's faint glimmer of hope that he might just get home in time for the football . |
| 8 | I can dimly recall the challenges of testing a router photograph , and using it to create the November 1989 cover , while the picture of Mark Wilkinson 's treehouse made the February 1990 cover one of my favourites , especially as the references to Czechoslovakia and East Germany coincided with the break up of the Eastern Bloc . |
| 9 | In 1990 , he was charged with applying for a copy of a birth certificate in that name and using it to make a fraudulent passport application . |
| 10 | ‘ It looks as if they were interrupted at their meal , ’ he remarked , righting the overturned stool and using it to indicate a soiled trencher and several dusty earthenware mugs on the table . |
| 11 | A third , a small blonde , always wore huge , baggy clothes and men 's hoots , saying she wanted to look aggressive , to get away from the things that being small and blonde are supposed to mean , and that when she walked down the street wearing her monkey boots and trench coat she felt great , confident and striding , and daring anyone to make a comment . |
| 12 | Wilson 's own choice of metaphor was no longer that of the centre forward , but the seasoned centre half feeding passes to his experienced forwards and allowing them to score the goals . |
| 13 | On Aug. 18 Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata had attempted to restore confidence by announcing a series of measures aimed at discouraging financial institutions from selling shares until the end of September , and allowing them to postpone the reporting of unrealised losses on share holdings until the end of the financial year , in March 1993 . |
| 14 | Drama quickly reveals to children the effectiveness of language , building up their language resources and allowing them to develop an awareness of a whole range of linguistic choices and registers . |
| 15 | I was very taken with the piece and at that time after the war the Lucerne Festival was very interested in having the orchestra and allowing us to determine the repertory . |
| 16 | At the consecration of every bishop the prognosis for his ministry is taken by laying the Gospels upon his shoulders , and opening it to read the line decreed . |
| 17 | Twice he fell for it , running half-dressed out of the room and instructing everyone to hold the show for a few minutes . |
| 18 | Taking their lead from Marx 's classic account ( 1926 ) of the regime of Louis Bonaparte , writers ( e.g. Miliband 1984 ; Ferner 1983 ) have argued that stalemate between classes or fractions of classes gives the state abnormal freedom of action , loosening the impact of the usual structural constraints and enabling it to prevent the interests of civil society from being expressed . |
| 19 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 20 | He leaped into action , hurling towels at Mrs Morrison and urging her to have the sofa , now it was ruined , for whatever she liked . |
| 21 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 22 | This indicates that chewing and swallowing at least start to bring our bodily eating controls into action by sending the first satiety signals to the brain — and that the more chewing and swallowing we do the more effective this is likely to be . |
| 23 | Simplistically , it would appear that this change could be accomplished merely by making family planning information , services and supplies available to all women of reproductive age and motivating them to use the services , confining childbearing to ages 20–34 , reducing the total number of pregnancies and lengthening inter-birth intervals , but much more is involved . |
| 24 | At the end there are sequences of free paddling , both at Nottingham and on natural water , allowing the viewers to see practical use of the moves and permitting them to see the film to examine the techniques , the paddling by the six paddlers involved always being very confident and competent . |
| 25 | The office drivers buying her fierce Singha beer and teaching her to dance the Ramwong , and her library assistants taking her to markets and on river trips , bringing her sticky cakes and jasmine garlands and inviting her to their homes . |
| 26 | Unfortunately small animals such as hedgehogs can get entangled in the net , and removing it to pick the fruit can be tricky . |
| 27 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 28 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 29 | It still preaches old-fashioned family values , rather than rolling up its sleeves and doing something to help the single-parent families and the thousands of homeless who exist on Britain 's streets . |
| 30 | By making a magnetometer with two pickup coils at right angles and orienting it to give the maximum and null outputs referred to , the magnitude variations and angular variations are effectively separated . |