Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have argued elsewhere ( 1989 , pp. 169–71 ) , the temple functioned rather like a great medieval abbey , drawing and re-allocating large revenues from the surrounding area and thereby developing into a major centre of wealth and power . |
| 2 | The presence or absence of increases in anal pressures and external sphincter electromyographic activity during a maximum squeeze , straining ‘ as if to defecate ’ , and forcibly expiring against a fixed resistance ( blowing up a party balloon ) were noted , and where relevant the responses quantified . |
| 3 | For the most part , what is good for the business will also be good for the shareholders and so speaking of a duty to benefit the business will often be accurate enough . |
| 4 | In the evening they gravitated to Soho , moving from the Wheatsheaf , to the Highlander , the Black Horse or the York Minster , and perhaps taking in a meal at Fava 's , then Minton 's favourite restaurant , before returning to 37 Hamilton Terrace to crash out on divans , some staying the night with Susan Einzig at her flat in Hampstead . |
| 5 | She reluctantly followed Nicole outside , certain that she was verging on dragging her steps and generally acting like a twelve-year-old delinquent on the way to the principal 's office . |
| 6 | Greg went quietly up the stairs and saw Hilary Seymour-Strachey , in his shirt-sleeves , gazing , grunting , altering positions , and generally acting like a first-time mother . |
| 7 | Throughout Iraq and even in neighbouring Kuwait , it was possible to share something of the flavour of the front line through the early evening transmissions of Suwar min al-maarakah ( pictures from the battle ) , which followed the news and which , in addition to depicting the bombardment of distant Iranian positions by Iraqi artillery , contributed some human interest with groups of soldiers , sometimes regulars , sometimes from the People 's Army , having a brew-up in some operational area , waving to the camera and generally putting on a show . |
| 8 | He is described as playing tricks on Jewish moneylenders in order to finance his soldiery , and generally behaving in a manner very far from what one might expect from the deeds of similar heroes such as Roland , Ogier or Lancelot . |
| 9 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 10 | Second , most people who are in work are keeping their heads down and not looking for a new job , so there is less competition from those in work . |
| 11 | As far as is known there are no side effects — a procedure can not alter any quantity not represented in the data structure and not appearing as a VAR parameter of the procedure . |
| 12 | If you 're simply replacing the old cistern — and not putting in a new system alongside the old you will be without water for some considerable time while the job is done . |
| 13 | Thus the endeavour to replace as much as possible of institutional with community care is a Sisyphean labour , which encounters the maximum obstacles , financial and organisational , quite apart from the fact that the responsibility for developing community care is fragmented and isolated through residing , in large part , with local health authorities and thus falling within a different system of finance and budgeting . |
| 14 | Derrida , of course , endorses this formulation , but stresses the principle of arbitrariness and differences as against the notion of the sign itself , since it risks degenerating into an entity and thus reverting to a metaphysical concept . |
| 15 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |
| 16 | If you are female , more than two stones overweight , and just embarking on a weight-loss programme — as opposed to switching from another slimming diet on which you have already lost some of your surplus weight . |
| 17 | ‘ How can you respect bashing in a bolt and just waiting for a robot to take over your job ? |
| 18 | It was much more the sheer vitality and range of committed ability , lay and clerical , present in the Church at that time and just waiting for a new lead . |
| 19 | I remember driving down to Leith on that Friday night , and just going for a walk and thinking that the next time the sun came up I would be playing at Murrayfield . |
| 20 | He was into his stride early in the session , dipping under world champion Ayrton Senna 's record pole time set last year and finally settling for a best lap of 1min 15.703sec , at an average speed of 127.799mph . |
| 21 | Prof Gerbner emphasised the ‘ sharing of experiences , lessons and recommendations , and gradually moving toward a realistic democratic agenda . ’ |
| 22 | She 's divorced , but she has n't emigrated or defected — she 's still a Fellow of Somerville , and still living at a solid address in North Oxford . |
| 23 | Mr Honecker , 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation , has so far flatly rejected all notions of change . |
| 24 | But with half an hour gone the poor quality of United 's final ball had left Cantona stranded and still looking for a chance to put some flesh on Ferguson 's bold predictions . |
| 25 | A major purveyor of Tory gossip and still looking for a job . |
| 26 | Here she was in her sixties and still dreaming like a schoolgirl about a man . |
| 27 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 28 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 29 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 30 | It is one in which young people often start life in improved or ‘ gentrified ’ housing in inner urban areas , thence progressing to large family homes in the outer suburbs and later retiring to a house purpose-made for well-off home owners . |