Example sentences of "and [verb] [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd also had a double income and shared paying the bills , and I found I was petrified of getting into debt . |
| 2 | FRED 1 's proposals in respect of extraordinary items were generally well received , although several commentators wanted to see them taken one stage further and recommended banning the use of the category of extraordinary items . |
| 3 | One can only speculate that the GMC took the easy option and avoided testing the issue of clinical ecology head on because it feared a lengthy presentation of evidence on both sides , with the risk of an inconclusive result . |
| 4 | A data set to 2.5Å was collected on a Nicolet multiwire area detector mounted on a Rigaku rotating anode and evaluated using the Buddha program . |
| 5 | Plan the layout so that the page is broken up into short paragraphs with sub-headings and highlighting through the use of emphasised test and underlining giving the message impact and more chance of getting through . |
| 6 | He said suing the building society would only delay matters and make resolving the problem more costly . |
| 7 | And make preparing the mill ready for the slate . |
| 8 | UltraFAX was the best of the bundled packages I looked at , by a long way , and made using the Ascom AM2496F a joy . |
| 9 | The Thatcher government in the 1980s recognized this and made reducing the PSBR the central feature of its medium-term financial strategy . |
| 10 | The Pathfinder Platoon is the only brigade sub-unit to use this free-fall technique , Which enhances the chances of avoiding detection and involves leaving the aircraft at heights of up to 25,000 feet , followed by a long free-fall descent and then landing using steerable parachutes . |
| 11 | It is believed that the discharging system used for grain removal is unique and involves removing the grain and transporting it to the mill without having to remove the boat 's hatch covers . |
| 12 | The plan centres on the so-called insulae ( the natural islands of which the whole of Venice is made up ) and involves raising the ground level in certain places to a height that will prevent the less severe but more frequent flooding . |
| 13 | This prevents any stitches becoming snagged and broken causing the filling to shift from its proper place . |
| 14 | Today managing director Ian Dury appeared before Banbury magistrates and admitted breaking the Health and Safety at work act . |
| 15 | She has taken the issues raised in Woman to Woman and produced Entering the Masquerade . |
| 16 | The data were off loaded to a computer ( Amstrad PC1640 , IBM-compatible ) and processed using the Esophagram software ( Gastrosoft Ltd , USA ) . |
| 17 | At first he was afraid that persecution would produce nominal Christians , hypocrisy and fear clothing the lack of an orthodox foundation garment . |
| 18 | Prof Pikas said his methods were non-accusatory , and involved asking the bully for a solution to the problem , bringing together the bully and the victim , and discussing ways they can live together . |
| 19 | Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night . |
| 20 | Accordingly , difference and Sim-weighted Fourier maps phased from the protein model were calculated at 20–4Å resolution , and inspected using the computer graphics program FRODO . |
| 21 | And every now and again he probably gets a shade nervous at keeping cash under the floor-boards or wherever he puts it , and starts spreading the load . ’ |
| 22 | Lepine turns around and starts spraying the students in the front rows with gunfire . |
| 23 | At first Murdoch followed the Thomson path : no-nonsense colonial boy muscles into sleepy British business and starts raising the dust . |
| 24 | Dictionary look-up techniques represent the top-down approach , and involve verifying the input word by matching it with a dictionary word . |
| 25 | The development of exploitation also leads to the formation of ideas , concepts , values , and institutions , but these , unlike those produced by the first process , are geared to operating exploitation , and involve giving the appearance of legitimacy to exploitation , as well as hiding its true nature from the exploited . |
| 26 | All of the information was then coded and entered into a mainframe computer ( IBM 3083 ) , and analysed using the SPSSX statistical package . |
| 27 | The children did n't talk about the kidnapping , but kept glancing out of the windows and stopped trusting the adults who looked after them . |
| 28 | Charles had persuaded Miles to stop and tried ringing the bell on the gate . |
| 29 | I thought of the shoppers ’ day trips to Northern Ireland in search of cheap goods , and tried enumerating the benefits Ireland might receive from a Reunion with the rest of Britain . |
| 30 | February 9 : Stinson 108–1 N905D landed short at Cube Cove , Alaska , and crashed killing the pilot . |