Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 2 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 3 | My first step was really to get to know London by walking and drawing it from all angles . |
| 4 | You have been surrounded by speech and using it for most of your life . |
| 5 | Intergraph Corp has decided it will standardise on Menlo Park , California-based Versant Object Technology Corp 's eponymous object-oriented database , reselling the product and using it in some future products . |
| 6 | He had me smashing my helmet against the car 's supporting struts on every corner and bracing myself with both legs against the bulkhead at every braking point . |
| 7 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |
| 8 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 9 | Now , I have much to be getting on with and would appreciate your not following me about and interrupting me like this . |
| 10 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 11 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 12 | She shuddered , half laughing , the joy reaching her heart and enveloping her in such a wave of pleasure that she felt weak-kneed . |
| 13 | My father has been buying Margaret a designer wardrobe and escorting her to all the best restaurants and clubs and Suzie has taken up surf-boarding . |
| 14 | But is n't there , is n't there a big difference between sort of recognizing the faults of past land reforms and advocating something like this ? |
| 15 | That 's very different from say er destroying this book and replacing it with this book . |
| 16 | I signed obediently , asking their names and writing one for each . |
| 17 | ‘ You should be ashamed of yourself , ’ she said to Pooley , ‘ aiding and abetting him like this . |
| 18 | A brand-new Tavern , redolent of fresh mortar and size , and fronting nothing at all , had taken for its sign The Rail way Arms ; but that might be rash enterprise — and then it hoped to sell drink to the workmen . |
| 19 | Our awareness of the area under discussion , and our capacity for exercising choice , will increase through the effort of applying them , and balancing them against each other . |
| 20 | A NEW example of industria cloning — taking a concept proven in one country and replicating it in another — is being demonstrated by Courtaulds Packaging . |
| 21 | These are independent companies who are responsible for providing customers with their mobile communications equipment and a range of services , and billing them for these products and services . |
| 22 | For a moment Nicholas , too , saw the future as something splendid and bright ; a fertile island , well run and blooming , and owing nothing to all the nations that warred round about it . |
| 23 | The information comes from selecting data and presenting it in such a way that it is meaningful and useful to the user . |
| 24 | Sarah would not take a flying run , but with John and Nora running and holding her at each side , just catching the fringes of the grass , she had her stately share , too . |
| 25 | Because of the mismatch between processor and transput device speeds , we are led to consider uncoupling the devices from direct processor control and providing them with some degree of autonomy . |
| 26 | Taking an iron-clad hero and facing him with some massive task will not produce that air of almost unbearable suspense you should be looking for . |
| 27 | It may seem rather surprising to some that the Principal of Trinity College should be giving a lecture on fundamentalism and subjecting it to some criticism . |
| 28 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 29 | If the scope of reason is confined to refining and systematising imperatives and deducing them from each other , how can it ever change their relation to the spontaneous ? |
| 30 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |