Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 2 | contacting employers and encouraging them to use the ES to fill their vacancies ; |
| 3 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |
| 4 | In twenty minutes of sublime running and handling they dropped the proverbial ‘ bar of soap ’ just once . |
| 5 | The judge knew this man of old : he was the pit-bull of the legal profession , attacking any weak spots with devastating precision , and seeing him ended the Judge 's faint glimmer of hope that he might just get home in time for the football . |
| 6 | I can dimly recall the challenges of testing a router photograph , and using it to create the November 1989 cover , while the picture of Mark Wilkinson 's treehouse made the February 1990 cover one of my favourites , especially as the references to Czechoslovakia and East Germany coincided with the break up of the Eastern Bloc . |
| 7 | Wilson 's own choice of metaphor was no longer that of the centre forward , but the seasoned centre half feeding passes to his experienced forwards and allowing them to score the goals . |
| 8 | On Aug. 18 Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata had attempted to restore confidence by announcing a series of measures aimed at discouraging financial institutions from selling shares until the end of September , and allowing them to postpone the reporting of unrealised losses on share holdings until the end of the financial year , in March 1993 . |
| 9 | I was very taken with the piece and at that time after the war the Lucerne Festival was very interested in having the orchestra and allowing us to determine the repertory . |
| 10 | At the consecration of every bishop the prognosis for his ministry is taken by laying the Gospels upon his shoulders , and opening it to read the line decreed . |
| 11 | Taking their lead from Marx 's classic account ( 1926 ) of the regime of Louis Bonaparte , writers ( e.g. Miliband 1984 ; Ferner 1983 ) have argued that stalemate between classes or fractions of classes gives the state abnormal freedom of action , loosening the impact of the usual structural constraints and enabling it to prevent the interests of civil society from being expressed . |
| 12 | He leaped into action , hurling towels at Mrs Morrison and urging her to have the sofa , now it was ruined , for whatever she liked . |
| 13 | This indicates that chewing and swallowing at least start to bring our bodily eating controls into action by sending the first satiety signals to the brain — and that the more chewing and swallowing we do the more effective this is likely to be . |
| 14 | Simplistically , it would appear that this change could be accomplished merely by making family planning information , services and supplies available to all women of reproductive age and motivating them to use the services , confining childbearing to ages 20–34 , reducing the total number of pregnancies and lengthening inter-birth intervals , but much more is involved . |
| 15 | At the end there are sequences of free paddling , both at Nottingham and on natural water , allowing the viewers to see practical use of the moves and permitting them to see the film to examine the techniques , the paddling by the six paddlers involved always being very confident and competent . |
| 16 | The office drivers buying her fierce Singha beer and teaching her to dance the Ramwong , and her library assistants taking her to markets and on river trips , bringing her sticky cakes and jasmine garlands and inviting her to their homes . |
| 17 | Unfortunately small animals such as hedgehogs can get entangled in the net , and removing it to pick the fruit can be tricky . |
| 18 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 19 | By making a magnetometer with two pickup coils at right angles and orienting it to give the maximum and null outputs referred to , the magnitude variations and angular variations are effectively separated . |
| 20 | On 16 March 1933 they brought in armed Polish police to protect their Harbour Board officers , and saying they feared the Nazis were planning an armed raid on the Polish ammunition dump , they reinforced their garrison on Westerplatte by bringing in 120 soldiers aboard the destroyer Wilia . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's no use playing two wingers like Morrissey and Nevin and asking them to do the defensive bit for you . |
| 22 | The defendant agreed , and prepared a list of goods to the value of £7,950 which he submitted to the manager , Mr. Gilberd , saying that it represented a genuine order by one Johal and asking him to authorise the supply of the goods in return for a building society cheque in that sum . |
| 23 | The defendant then prepared and submitted to the manager of the shop , Mr. Gilberd , a list of goods to the value of £7,950 , telling him that the list represented a bona fide order placed by one Johal and asking him to authorise the supply of the goods against a building society cheque for that amount . |
| 24 | But there 's nothing wrong with challenging people on a personal level and letting them make the choices … ’ |
| 25 | It proposes packing foundation boards with regional cultural and professional bigwigs , in fixed proportions to local politicians , and letting them choose the savings-bank bosses . |
| 26 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 27 | Equally , many schools have problems in putting hand on heart and admitting they cover the science or history or design and technology courses ; and new problems will lie ahead as further subject programmes evolve . |
| 28 | This is the creation of high quality artwork using material that may already exist in a number of forms and modifying it to suit the current need . |
| 29 | An obvious trophy , it afforded irrefutable proof that the victim was male , and obtaining it gave the additional satisfaction of dishonouring the corpse . |
| 30 | The illusion that she was a spectator , and this was the play , was making her lose touch with reality ; and making her forget the enormity of her present predicament . |