Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Like the smaller copepods , euphausiids are mainly herbivorous , combing algal cells from the water and gathering them in a basket-like arrangement of bristles on their many-jointed forelimbs . |
| 3 | He was milking the audience for all he could get : throwing the balls out in every direction and catching them in a windmill of arms . |
| 4 | The new mood turns the idea of what is received taste on its head by employing the use of sometimes ‘ naff ’ items from previous decades , and incorporating them in a fresh context . |
| 5 | 2 The Publisher shall be responsible for placing copies of the Program with Beta Testing assessors , for collecting feedback from these assessors and assembling it in a form which shall be interpretable as a specification to be met by the Programmer in preparing the final version of the Program . |
| 6 | The activity had been planned so that when children helped one another they would be using principles applied in problem-solving on one of the tasks and applying them in a new form on the other . |
| 7 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 8 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 9 | He had a gift for coming up with innovative ideas , suggesting links that others would never dream of , and testing them in a rough way to see if they were flawed or might instead lead somewhere . |
| 10 | Highlander was a linkpin in the whole operation , bringing together many people who had been involved in land issues over a large geographical area , schools , community groups , local politicians , academics , and interested individuals Workshops at Highlander laid the foundations for articulation of the problems and a research methodology for establishing the relative facts and presenting them in a manner which would best suit community requirements . |
| 11 | The writer of the previous essay plan has demonstrated advanced skills by selecting the information or facts relevant to the question and presenting it in a logical argument . |
| 12 | Such progress exemplifies the way in which a physical geographer can contribute by deriving a world pattern that depends upon the most recently reviewed methods for assessing sediment yield and presenting it in a form that is pertinent to applications in a wide range of disciplines . |
| 13 | Then Pettit took a photograph and , he claimed , Enos attacked him — throwing him over a fence and punching him in a headlock . |
| 14 | The physical world , seemingly solid to our senses , when reduced to its ultimate is mostly ‘ emptiness ’ or etheric spaces with almost innumerable particles of negative or positive electricity mutually acting or interacting , producing all the existing material phenomena and holding them in a more or less organised state . |
| 15 | For its size it was heavy , and she nearly dropped it , Lucenzo 's hands quickly sweeping beneath hers and supporting them in a lightning reflex . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not just that the objectives have been achieved , of getting the policy reviews endorsed , and conducting ourselves in a way that will attract the British people . |
| 17 | You can be very good at saying these things about love , and doing it in a kind of way people can identify with , but it does n't necessarily tell the whole truth about yourself . |
| 18 | You can get the same sort of information from a Mel Bay book but going to Joe and doing it in a rock/heavy metal format made it a lot more interesting and a lot easier for me to learn . |
| 19 | ‘ By doing this , we 're simplifying the process of using a spreadsheet , and doing it in a consistent way . |
| 20 | diplomatic rather than strident and wanting her own way and doing it in a very obvious way . |
| 21 | The Boogiemen are the latest band to record a demo tape of cover versions , bringing together several soul and blues classics and recording them in a mellow style . |
| 22 | This is probably achieved by mutant p53 binding wild type p53 protein and sequestering it in a biological inactive oligomer . |
| 23 | On 12 May 1992 Mr. Butler was again found to be in contempt of court by cutting telephone wires at Mrs. Butler 's house and assaulting her in a public house . |
| 24 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 25 | He reached out and tugged her into the V of his thighs , dropping his mouth to hers and taking it in a kiss that left her gasping for breath and so shaken she could barely stand . |
| 26 | As she stood there , swaying slightly , her cheeks as pale as parchment , she was aware that Vass was gesturing towards the sofa and inviting her in a tone of mock-concern , ‘ Why do n't you take a seat ? |
| 27 | The isolated teeth are considerably more digested than the in situ molars , both in terms of frequency and degree , but the pattern is the same in both , and combining them in a single sample gives a digestion index varying from 18–22 per cent for the means and 15–62 per cent for the total range of all samples . |
| 28 | Task 1 could be the interrogation of a database file to produce a list of customers in a geographical area , selecting fields relevant to the task and listing them in a format most useful to area sales reps . |
| 29 | to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith . |
| 30 | On the facts of the two cases it was unnecessary to decide whether , as argued by Mr. Jeffreys , the mere taking of the article from the shelf and putting it in a trolley or other receptacle amounted to the assumption of one of the rights of the owner , and hence an appropriation . |