Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 3 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 4 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 5 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 6 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 7 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |
| 8 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 9 | She remembered Doc Threadneedle suggesting she try sucking her finger and sticking it in an electric socket . |
| 10 | Like the smaller copepods , euphausiids are mainly herbivorous , combing algal cells from the water and gathering them in a basket-like arrangement of bristles on their many-jointed forelimbs . |
| 11 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 12 | He was milking the audience for all he could get : throwing the balls out in every direction and catching them in a windmill of arms . |
| 13 | It seems that the slimes and waste gravel from the mill were discharged directly into the beck which obligingly carried the man made detritus downstream and depositing them in the less boisterous places causing silting and then , during heavy rain , flooding . |
| 14 | Terry Dicks , not so well known , was crushing beer cans and tossing them in the direction of France . |
| 15 | The new mood turns the idea of what is received taste on its head by employing the use of sometimes ‘ naff ’ items from previous decades , and incorporating them in a fresh context . |
| 16 | For example polymethyl methacrylate ( Perspex , Plexiglas ) may be moulded to any desired shape by warming it to temperatures little over 100°C and cooling it in the deformed state . |
| 17 | By separating the glycerides from more readily available fats and assembling them in the required proportions it was possible to match the physical properties of cocoa butter . |
| 18 | 2 The Publisher shall be responsible for placing copies of the Program with Beta Testing assessors , for collecting feedback from these assessors and assembling it in a form which shall be interpretable as a specification to be met by the Programmer in preparing the final version of the Program . |
| 19 | The activity had been planned so that when children helped one another they would be using principles applied in problem-solving on one of the tasks and applying them in a new form on the other . |
| 20 | ‘ There , ’ he said , claiming her achievement as his own and inflating it in the process . |
| 21 | Bill cuts through the line after grabbing at thin air and landing it in an arbitrary process . |
| 22 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 23 | ‘ Socrates was the first man who thought about thinking , ’ she said , sitting on the window seat and surprising him in every way . |
| 24 | It 's a privilege and an honour for me to thank him , on your behalf , for coming here tonight and addressing us in the way he has . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
| 26 | Inserting the offending books in canisters of negatively polarised octiron and sinking them in the fathomless depths of the sea was one ( burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five-headed cats ) but before long the magic seeped out and eventually fishermen complained of shoals of invisible fish or psychic clams . |
| 27 | " You can tell him , " I said , turning and looking him in the face , " that you were entirely mistaken ; that my boss really is my boss , and that I 'm not going to have a baby . " |
| 28 | Ingarden is keen to emphasize that the delight evoked by such positive culminations is not the essential component of aesthetic experience but a by-product of the activity of discovery , of experiencing an achieved harmony and valuing it in an emotional , contemplative way . |
| 29 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 30 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |