Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , anglers regularly take home large quantities of fish , selling it locally , storing it in freezers and eating it several times a week . |
| 2 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 3 | The press coverage in turn has resulted in many other local authorities becoming interested in taking up the idea and pursuing their own campaigns . |
| 4 | Women are more used to accepting the consequences of what they do and accepting their own failings , while men simply must have someone to blame . ’ |
| 5 | In any case , most women are less interested in being ‘ like men ’ than in discovering and using their own gifts . |
| 6 | If an employer is faced with the situation where an employee has , in his own time and using his own equipment , developed a useful computer program , then the employer should immediately try to reach agreement as regards questions of ownership and use of the programs with the employee concerned , rather than allowing the program to be used without such agreement . |
| 7 | Inward migrants will include people who come into the district in order to do the jobs that are provided and there are many examples of employers coming to the town and bringing their own people into the town to do the jobs that are brought into the town . |
| 8 | It is a common sight to see bands of penniless zealots whipping and beating themselves as they travel from village to village , begging scraps of food and preaching their own nightmare vision of doom and despondency . |
| 9 | When he was not flying he kept himself busy by designing and building his own fighter with parts ‘ cannibalised ’ from scrapped and battle damaged aircraft . |
| 10 | After testing for the role when he executive-produced We 're No Angels , he has taken it up full time , setting up his own company Tribeca Productions and building his own mini-studio in New York . |
| 11 | For a time after his departure , the Abbey Mill site was run by William Rice and Co , and towards the end of its working life was running eight pairs of stones and producing its own electricity , using a water turbine and two of the remaining waterwheels . |
| 12 | Anywhere — on the fringe — forming small companies and producing their own work . |
| 13 | The process of actually researching and producing their own business plan is regarded by many of the graduates as the most challenging but rewarding aspects of the programme . |
| 14 | Mr Hawke last week repeated his support for the airlines recruiting new pilots overseas and re-hiring their former pilots on individual contracts . |
| 15 | Jay lay on her bed , sipping coffee and touching her own face with the tenderness she felt for Lucy , closed her eyes with the dizzy perfection of that moment in the conservatory when they had touched , when she had touched Lucy , and Lucy had walked beside her , seen what she saw ; when her eyes had met Jay 's , dancing with the glory of it all . |
| 16 | Perhaps most disturbing from the point of view of the central authorities , the party organisations in the three republics , particularly in Lithuania , began to press for a greater degree of independence , establishing direct links with outside ruling parties and adopting their own programme and statute , within or if necessary outside the framework of the CPSU as a whole . |
| 17 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 18 | The Ego is an expert at being defensive , at rationalising and justifying its own behaviour , at seeing itself as the hapless victim of a cruel , harsh world . |
| 19 | We 're on Sixth Avenue , puffing on a prosaic perfecto and minding our own business — when John turns down Twenty-Second Street , breaks into a run , and starts loosening his pants … |
| 20 | Between denying Agnes 's guesswork and denying his own responsibility , as she had intended . |
| 21 | Additionally , the horse 's temperament is likely to deteriorate dramatically , and the horse may become not only more difficult to manage , but may also develop some vice , such as viciousness , wind-sucking , cribbing , weaving , or biting its own body and tearing its own skin . |
| 22 | The emphasis should be on supporting and protecting your own jumper and not illegally interfering with the opposing jumper . |
| 23 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 24 | His main purpose in all his studies became , as he says , that of ‘ informing and reforming my own Soul ’ . |
| 25 | That instinct which is said to restrain other animals from killing and devouring their own species we need not attribute to him . |
| 26 | Former England winger , Brian Marwood who 's on trial could have celebrated his first game with a hat trick , but County keeper , Martin Taylor was on top form and by keeping Swindon out and keeping his own team in the game he was the match winner . |
| 27 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 28 | Instead of simply proclaiming " art for art 's sake " they attempted to create a body of work which was on its own terms self-sufficient , with its own order and tradition , capable of embodying and communicating its own values . |
| 29 | If you want to liberate Kuwait , which is the aim of the United Nations resolutions , it is to reduce the forces of the invaders , hoping , as my friend Mohammed mentioned , hoping that the invaders themselves will see the reasoning behind pulling away and saving their own arm and their own lives . |
| 30 | Thanks to the fame of its springs , Bath became a prosperous community , providing services for visiting pilgrims and developing its own industries , one of which involved the production of pewter vessels . |