Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women are peculiarly fitted for the onerous task of patiently and skilfully caring for the patient in faithful obedience to the physician 's orders . |
| 2 | I crept downstairs and was outside and successfully making for the front gate when Ted sprinted around the side of the house and grabbed me . |
| 3 | He was a hulk of a man in his middle fifties , inches taller than Maxim and instinctively stooping under the low beams of the tap-room . |
| 4 | And although there are large numbers of people happily and effectively working with the same standalone , two-dimensional , text-based products that came free with their PCs several years ago , in the world of corporate computing a little more is needed . |
| 5 | Turbulence has been observed to appear first of all in small spots restricted laterally as well as axially and presumably forming in the boundary layer . |
| 6 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 7 | Even the major labels constantly release naff rock records by groups like Roadhouse and Kingofthehill , and so kicking around the provinces must be hundreds of audio-nightmares waiting to come out of daddy 's garage . |
| 8 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 9 | It has the advantage that current drawn by the arms of the bridge is supplied by the source and so loading of the ratio windings and possible consequential disturbance of the potential difference ratio from is avoided . |
| 10 | The idea was this : When the star becomes small , the matter particles get very near each other , and so according to the Pauli exclusion principle , they must have very different velocities . |
| 11 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 12 | However , there were a few outliers with values of over 0.4% , and so marking to the market occasionally had an important effect on arbitrage profits . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if there is significant excess capacity at the agreed output , and the agreed price is well above marginal cost , then a significant output expansion would be both feasible and profitable and so reneging on the agreement could appear attractive . |
| 14 | Others have set up one-year and two-year training courses in church planting , encouraging those being trained to pay for the privilege and so contributing to the financing of church planting , as well as providing workers in training . |
| 15 | They contained articles by a variety of writers ( including politicians , and teachers ) each of whom had one common aim and purpose — to show that progressive methods in both primary and secondary schools were ‘ selling children short ’ and so contributing to the general permissiveness which ( they said ) was undermining the traditions of British society . |
| 16 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 17 | Well I , I 'm having some difficulty in keeping my remarks addressed to question A and not drifting into question B because obviously Leeds City Council and perhaps speaking for the rest of West Yorkshire 's concerned about regeneration effects . |
| 18 | Other vulnerable countries face heavy expenditures , cancelling out any savings made in defence budgets — around one trillion dollars a year globally — following the end of the cold war and perhaps rising to the levels of expenditures experienced in a war . |
| 19 | Although many go unrecognized , stray finds are more commonly discovered than sites , and every one is potentially important , adding to archaeological evidence , and perhaps leading to the discovery of a new site . |
| 20 | She hitched up her dress , and swiftly reaching beneath the full skirt , whipped her knickers down her shapely legs . |
| 21 | IN MRS Barrass ' description of ‘ hunting horror ’ ( HAS Jan 29 ) it is difficult to believe that the couple running up and down egging on the hounds ( not dogs , please ) were real hunt supporters . |
| 22 | Pesh Framjee would like to see ‘ incorporated charities taken out of the Companies Act and only reporting under the Charities Act , or if that is not possible have them report under both . |
| 23 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 24 | In the end , Reagan came very close to defeating Ford , obtaining more popular votes in the primaries than the president and only losing on the ballot for the nomination in the Convention by 111 votes out of a total cast of 2,257 . |
| 25 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No 6 with 6–3 , 3–6 , 6–3 triumph . |
| 26 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No.6 with 6–3 3–6 6–3 triumph . |
| 27 | A surrounding commercial crop where the farmer used a comparatively high sowing rate has less and less podding towards the centre of the field , he points out . |
| 28 | The hours passed in fruitless speculation on one side of the room and loud snoring on the other . |
| 29 | Now , she lay panting by the fire , warming her flanks and apparently listening to the humans ' conversation . |
| 30 | There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them . |