Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun pl] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | WILD rocker Jim Martin was held at gunpoint by police after waving a pistol and firing shots in a hotel car park . |
| 2 | Long means a bank is purchasing and accumulating deposits in a currency whereas short implies a run-down of deposit balances in a currency ( possibly even a loan situation existing in a nostro account with a correspondent bank ) . |
| 3 | Around 100 15-year-olds were combining the excitement of a French experience with the reality of the hotel and catering trades in a novel combination designed to boost their success in school exams . |
| 4 | Around 100 15-year-olds were combining the excitement of a French experience with the reality of the hotel and catering trades in a novel combination designed to boost their success in school exams . |
| 5 | Then the egg-laying will begin in earnest , with the female sliding across the site with her abdomen touching the surface and depositing eggs in a straight line as she proceeds . |
| 6 | Because when you do that then that encourages you to , oh yes , well we can , you know , that went quite well but we ought to have done that and that and then you immediately , you , you 're eager to do other things and people get used to splitting up and tackling things in a focused way . |
| 7 | Indeed , a striking feature of post-war economic growth has been the increasing importance of techniques of persuasion : only by stimulating wants and keeping consumers in a state of dissatisfaction is it possible to secure high levels of demand for much of the output of modern industrial economies . |
| 8 | He worked as a lift-boy in one of the smaller French hotels , moonlighting occasionally , and serving drinks in a café in the evenings . |
| 9 | Clegg is called The Collector , as he is a butterfly collector , who has now started gathering and trapping women in a similar way , this is a powerful metaphor throughout the book . |
| 10 | Once you have mastered the art of both pressing and presenting flowers in a professional manner , there are many gifts that you can create . |
| 11 | In addition , if a property owner is manufacturing and selling goods in a competitive market he will be obliged to produce any given level of output of those goods at the lowest cost possible . |
| 12 | The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up . |
| 13 | The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up . |
| 14 | Witchcraft and sorcery accusations , then , are often selected as the most effective and appropriate means of destroying relationships and discrediting rivals in a thoroughly nasty way . |
| 15 | Let us consider here just the relationship between the focusing and reasoning components in a system of this general type , and restrict our attention for the moment to the case of one pronoun in a sentence in the absence of any non-anaphoric ambiguity . |
| 16 | A von Restorff effect ( Wallace , 1965 ) refers to the common finding that a single distinctive item will tend to be remembered better than surrounding ones , a phenomenon which has often been linked with an impairment in memory for immediately preceding and following items in a list ( Brenner , 1973 ; Detterman , 1975 , 1976 ; Erdelyi & Blumenthal , 1973 ) . |