Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story . |
| 2 | ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg . |
| 3 | ‘ Like some coffee ? ’ said Wilcox , taking her coat and hanging it on the back of the door . |
| 4 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 5 | Shaken off balance by her startling thoughts , Isabel glanced away , stepping out of her gown and hanging it over the table . |
| 6 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 7 | This is not , in fact , a problem , since LIFESPAN provides the tools for creating other DCs as the need arises and attaching them to the same package . |
| 8 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 9 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 10 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 11 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 12 | It was supposed to shoot back up again , hitting my jutting backside en route and pitching me across the stage , but it did n't . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 … |
| 14 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 15 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Of course , this consequence follows because the building society is in effect attracting funds from the public sector and channelling them to the borrowers that we identified in section 4.1.1 . |
| 18 | Seeing the latter in one-dimensional terms , and characterising it as a weak version of the more prestigious intellectual analogues used ( design as weak art or weak science ) , such models never explored design — cognitive activity from its own standpoint or in respect of its own efficacy . |
| 19 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 20 | It was Louise who usually attended to Miriam , bringing her a ration of water and helping her nearer the fire at night . |
| 21 | ‘ How did you get on today — have you found a nanny to help you with the children ? ’ he added , throwing her into confusion by casually giving her a peck on the cheek before leaning across the table and helping himself to a slice of chocolate cake . |
| 22 | She went into the empty staff-room and helping herself to a cup of coffee , she sank wearily into a chair . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 25 | Within south Korea policy should be aimed at consolidating democratic groups and drawing them into the military administration . |
| 26 | Doyle seemed wary and the Woman had started to fidget with her long tail of hair , holding it in one hand and drawing it through the fingers of the other . |
| 27 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 28 | Some County Councils , notably West Sussex , already operate successful schemes of composting waste and reselling it to the public and surely Hertfordshire could do the same . |
| 29 | LUKE SAT ON AN expo love-seat in Club World at Heathrow , drinking Volvic and availing himself of a complimentary fax machine — clearing up the initial paperwork with Mike on the poem . |
| 30 | Instead , the wall was used as a reason for seeking conciliation with the East and accepting it as a fait accompli . |