Example sentences of "and [conj] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 2 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 3 | Have chips no more than twice a week and if preparing them at home have them cut very thick . |
| 4 | And and so we 've got the other two thirds this between , getting to bed and and spending it with the , the , the family . |
| 5 | Every erm pitchfork must come out one You ca n't start fighting and and pulling it against the grain otherwise you you would be in trouble . |
| 6 | I am restoring it and considering upgrading it to 110 spec . |
| 7 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 8 | Malcolm had left Trinidad for the United States in the 1920s and whilst educating himself at Fisk and Howard Universities had developed a temperament of a distinctly militant revolutionary nature . |
| 9 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
| 10 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |
| 11 | The county 's elder statesmen were collectively in good nick , both off the court and when hitting it on it . |