Example sentences of "of [noun pl] and [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Protestant mob was so incensed by what he said that they wrecked the Irish quarter , breaking in the fronts of houses and knocking down their roofs , and it took a battalion of troops to restore order . |
| 2 | Idly flicking through their brief prospectuses yesterday ( no , not in the pub ) it was clear that there is a whole world of books and learning out there . |
| 3 | It can be so — certain women have a perpetual ‘ devouring ’ quality — but it is a natural process , echoed in the menstrual cycle , and in the moon 's waxing and waning , and it can be used to positive effect , regulating the ebb and flow of relationships and opening up pathways of communication . |
| 4 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 5 | Keeper Jon Hallworth , beaten by Richard Hall 's header , said : ‘ Earlier in the season everyone was talking about us scoring loads of goals and letting in as many . |
| 6 | The work involves searching for companies to acquire , approaching them , forming a view on price , then negotiating on behalf of clients and carrying out due diligence work . |
| 7 | Mother stood on his shoulders and between the pair of them , amidst much shouting of directions and staggering about , the rod was brought down and reassembled . |
| 8 | He had a tame magpie which , in keeping with tradition , would occasionally steal shiny objects , and a short-eared brown owl which was quartered in his barn and developed a habit of flying at the heads of visitors and knocking off their hats . |
| 9 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 10 | The approaches advocated by the DES , HMI and the Scottish Education Department follow a procedure very common in the USA , i.e. starting with a statement of aims and setting out areas , or whatever , that will satisfy these aims . |
| 11 | The enigmatic Rowland flies the world , meeting leaders , smoothing lines of communications and setting up deals . |
| 12 | Based on a survey of Brides And Setting Up Home readers , the average cost of a wedding is now £6,344 without the honeymoon . |
| 13 | It 's debatable whether PGA is the best golf game , but it 's certainly the easiest to get into without the fuss of reading pages of instructions and swatting up on the physics of the humble golf ball . |
| 14 | The King is seen exchanging an earthly crown for a crown of thorns and looking up towards a heavenly crown |
| 15 | Despite a world recession and a double-figure percentage decline in visitors to the American Disney parks , the company 's spending , maintenance of standards and rolling out of new projects that ‘ give folks good reasons to come back ’ , is prodigious . |
| 16 | Dismissal of proceedings and striking out |
| 17 | I 'll bet , ’ he added , ‘ that for all your years of book-learning you know nothing about strapping on a pair of waders and getting out into the stream , feeling the water swirl around you — or how to bait a hook — ’ He pulled a small plastic box towards him . |
| 18 | Even so , you may find yourself writing hundreds of letters and sending out hundreds of c.v.s on the offchance of a response . |
| 19 | George came last , carrying an attaché case of papers and looking over his shoulder at the train as if wondering if he 'd forgotten anything . |
| 20 | It 's dependent on the purposeful pulling of triggers and setting off of bombs . |
| 21 | In the newly emerging cities this meadow was symbolized in the Broletto , even after the communes had taken all powers in the making of laws and handing out of justice away from the church . |
| 22 | ‘ Sure , ’ he said , moving a pile of paperbacks and sitting down in my fake Bauhaus leather and steel chair ( one of a set , of one ) . |