Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |
| 2 | Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less . |
| 3 | He employed a gardener , had pipes laid to convey water to the Palace , put in chambers and hung the walls with leather gilt hangings , as well as employing a glacier , carpenter and bricklayer , and perhaps remembering his own schooling , he improved the school where his own children and the children of William Dalison were privately tutored . |
| 4 | I imagined my mentor , beached on his snow-white counterpane , consciouslessly watching Night Thoughts and perhaps improvising his own televisual homily . |
| 5 | A team learns from experience , both successes and failures , by reviewing its processes and constantly improving its own performance . |
| 6 | He also suggests a recognition for clubs who , he says , could nominate themselves for achievements in promoting angling , fostering community relations and generally promoting their own region for angling tourism . |
| 7 | Her photographs capture the girls viewing each other and already checking their own image . |
| 8 | All were equally intent on bringing the icon down and thus perpetuating their own careers . |
| 9 | The great appeal of methylation as a means of shutting genes off is that it has a known mechanism for perpetuating itself during cell division and thus ensuring its own inheritance . |
| 10 | It stops you sitting on the beach and just doing nothing all summer . |
| 11 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 12 | Determined to be utterly independent of Bart , he slowly worked his way up , starting as a groom and finally getting his own yard , buying ponies cheap off the race track , or from other players who could n't get a tune out of them , making them , and selling them on , which he detested because he got so fond of them . |
| 13 | It was a magnificent vision : the mighty , black-winged birds , their wings fully 10 feet from tasselled tip to tasselled tip , rose and fell in the cold wind against a background of the brown earth below them , the deep blue sky above them and , behind them and nearly circling us all , the great grey fortresses of the Andes , sheer walls of ice , snow and rock nearly two miles high . |
| 14 | Philip was taken on as a sort of pupil-teacher , helping with the children and also furthering his own education . |
| 15 | Not only does the state with the help and reinforcement of its control agencies , criminologists , and the media conceptualize a particular and partial ideological version of serious crime and who commits it , but it does so by concealing and hence mystifying its own propensity for violence and serious crimes on a much larger scale . |
| 16 | Elizabeth Hoby died at a great age in 1609 , after spending her final days painstakingly and efficiently planning her own funeral , down to the minutest detail . |
| 17 | It may take a long time discussing the parents ' child-rearing philosophy and even discussing their own childhood experiences of discipline to unearth the cause of these deep-seated feelings . |
| 18 | This time , however , his dozen men engulfed by thousands of Highlanders , Molloy was forced to surrender , on favourable terms , the victorious Jacobites eagerly seizing his stock of food and then using its own gunpowder to demolish the barracks ; the resulting ruins remain to this day . |
| 19 | It was during the time the play was being crafted , and for years afterwards , that Ken was a witness to the bizarre happenings that made up this strangest of all relationships , a relationship which ended with Halliwell murdering Orton and then taking his own life . |
| 20 | Building tension and mystery to the end and then undermining it all . |
| 21 | A number of smaller practices , with an international reputation for quality , will be architectural boutiques , offering their clients award-winning designs and virtually naming their own price . |
| 22 | Cormack had allowed her to lead him past , squaring his shoulders and almost believing his own past exaggerations of bar fights . |
| 23 | Paige could feel herself dissolving , losing everything she knew of herself , and yet finding herself more real in the re-moulding . |
| 24 | From being one prince among many others he became the most powerful ruler in Europe , richer even than the Emperor , and completely overshadowing his own nominal overlord , the King of France . |
| 25 | Students came to be regarded as trouble-making drones , supported by the tax-payers ' money , indulging themselves at others ' expense , and frivolously wasting their own and other people 's time . |
| 26 | The connection between girls suffering from eating disorders and violently hating their own bodies , and sexual violence in society , struck me more and more powerfully as I listened to girls talking about periods , body shape and size , and how they feel about their bodies . |