Example sentences of "and [v-ing] them in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For the sauce you make a roux , taking a knob of butter , an equivalent weight of flour and the saffron , and dissolving them in a bain-marie ; then add some of the warm mussel juice slowly , stirring all the time . |
| 14 | He worked as an unhappy little boy on the quay , rolling barrels about and storing them in a warehouse , under orders from his father . |
| 15 | This gives a stocking length of 10″ ( 25cm ) , and placing them in a 20 gallon tank ( 90l ) you have , according to the aforementioned ratio stocked it correctly . |
| 16 | Cold setting was carried out by selecting the characters one at a time and placing them in a compositor 's stick . |
| 17 | We can look to our institutions of higher education becoming more rational in their inner processes , with their members working together in articulating a shared view of an institution 's aims and fulfilling them in a corporate way . |
| 18 | Then I thought of going across the road and throwing them in a skip — except that this would look very peculiar . |
| 19 | With financial support from the DES , the Language Teaching Centre is investigating the feasibility of recruiting trained foreign language teachers , particularly in the Federal Republic of Germany , which has a considerable surplus , and reschooling them in a custom-made , one term induction course prior to their taking up a teaching-post in a British school . |
| 20 | Harvesting of clean white worm simply involves picking up the pebbles and dipping them in a small container of cold water . |