Example sentences of "and [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |
| 2 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 3 | She was rescued by James Spicer , a vice-chairman of the Party , and led blinking into the foyer . |
| 4 | Say she enticed him into the woods and became demanding in every way and heavily emotional , piling on pressure . |
| 5 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 6 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 7 | The second tactic employed by the authorities related specifically to the Snowball campaign and involved dealing with the symbolic fence-cutting as the offence of criminal damage . |
| 8 | The only access to the basement was down a flight of steep steps , and involved ducking under a low ceiling . |
| 9 | The detour was to Holmstroyd and involved stopping at the jetty . |
| 10 | The method was ethnographic and participatory and involved working with a software development team , and research programmers . |
| 11 | A vast circle of storm clouds hugged the ground and rose towering into the air , so they seemed becalmed on the inside edge of a massive mauve funnel through the swirling walls of which Trent could make out , to the south , a thin line of greater darkness that he knew must be the rain forest bordering the Makaa River . |
| 12 | The demographic evidence on this matter has been examined above and found wanting as an explanation of population growth . |
| 13 | Mr Lavelle , 25 , of Edgware , north-west London , collapsed and stopped breathing after an altercation with an opponent while playing for Hendon against Centaur , from West Drayton , west London , police said . |
| 14 | Police said Mr Lavelle collapsed and stopped breathing after an altercation with a player from the opposing side during a match on Saturday at Hendon , north London . |
| 15 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |
| 16 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 17 | The crossbow bolt whirred out , nicking the hindquarters of the second dog , which turned and fled howling into the darkness . |
| 18 | Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court . |
| 19 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 20 | ‘ When Edwards spoke to me we discussed other football matters , such as Webb leaving , Mark Hughes might be going and United returning with an increased bid for Hirst . |
| 21 | When Rosa had taken the tray Luce picked up the crutch and practised hobbling round the bedroom . |
| 22 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 23 | It was lovely to watch , the effortless , rhythmic flowing of the horse 's limbs and then Punch turned his mount and came thudding towards the road . |
| 24 | ‘ He jumped out and came galloping down the street , waving a sort of a club . |
| 25 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
| 26 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 27 | A boy sitting on a wall fell off backwards and came running round the end of the wall a moment later saying , ‘ What have I missed ? |
| 28 | It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them . |
| 29 | They watched in silence until he came closer , then , as he swooped between the grey walls of the drawbridge and came clattering into the courtyard over cobblestones that were now covered only by a thin film of slush , Marc deliberately removed his arm from around her waist . |
| 30 | On seeing the car , she rose immediately and came tripping down the drive to unlock the tall iron gates . |