Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ward sister co-ordinates all these functions , ensuring the ward has adequate supplies and drawing together the particular team members required to help an individual patient . |
| 2 | He is an expert in grading wools that come from all over the world and blending together the many different types for yarn production . |
| 3 | He was in favour of comprehensive schools , disliking selection once and for all for one sort of education or another at ‘ this frankly absurdly early age of 11 + ’ , and disliking also the social divisiveness of middle-class and working-class children going to different schools . |
| 4 | Often this sort of breathing is accompanied by raising the shoulders and pushing forward the front part of the chest ; it does not take in much air or provide the opportunity to have much control over it . |
| 5 | I doubt that she 'll ever go upstairs again , ’ he added , going to the window and pushing aside the long red drapes . |
| 6 | Both therefore share the same confidence , which now seems rather questionable , but is typical of the structuralism of the sixties , in the possibility of defining and analyzing scientifically the essential features of literature . |
| 7 | Spent and trembling once the nasty little interlude was over , she then set about trying to tidy herself up . |
| 8 | The Frisian , Liudger , later bishop of Münster , was studying at York under Alcuin when civil disturbances at York , involving Frisians and presaging perhaps the eventual overthrow of Alhred , obliged Alcuin to send him back to Frisia . |
| 9 | Then he 'd write long letters to Richard , telling precisely how long the train journey took and describing colourfully the other people with whom he shared the carriage . |
| 10 | Your old ships , my lord King , were already engaged with the ships of Earl Siward and getting much the best of it . |
| 11 | there may be an expectation that we should , we should be absorbing increase in and getting roughly the same amount of money , but . |
| 12 | Because of that , the cost of supervising and enforcing even the new goal-related safety regime will be higher . |
| 13 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 14 | In all 15 sign languages HELP was signed with the right hand lifting and moving forward the left hand , forearm or elbow . |
| 15 | So we should not hesitate to edit a text , cutting out what is superfluous , avoiding the padding , and retaining only the poetic essentials . |
| 16 | By keeping the pride of achievement entirely to yourself and letting only the foul consequences of your activities out on the community ! |
| 17 | 2 Two or more words normally associating with each other and having much the same meaning as the nominal phrase , eg the very poor , a summit meeting . |
| 18 | Whichever bone it was , it was a crotch in shape ; that is , a forked bone like a wish-bone , and having precisely the same shape as the frog — the horny elastic pad — in a horse 's hoof . |
| 19 | The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked . |
| 20 | With Mick 's help , Paddy set about removing one bolt each from five of them and bolting together the sheared rim . |
| 21 | The next sonnet in the sequence begins with Astrophil looking at his heart and finding there the conventional poetic image of love 's wounding arrow . |
| 22 | Our main aims initially have been to assess mortality and major morbidity arising from T U R P within the northern region and assessing also the inter-site variation for this . |
| 23 | Since Natasha had not specified which room they were to meet in , there was nothing for it but to progress through each , ignoring the paintings and studying only the other visitors . |
| 24 | The problem of how to produce a red wine was as acute in Dom Pérignon 's time as it is today , but according to Frère Pierre he found a solution to the problem by using old vines and selecting only the ripest grapes ; he was thus able to achieve three or four successful vintages of decently coloured wines for about every ten , when the vines might enjoy exceptional warmth during the summer . |
| 25 | In the present study we go beyond this result by making controlled B I -B II transitions involving most of the dinucleotide junctions of the dodecamer and discussing both the energetic and conformational aspects of such transitions . |
| 26 | It is finally uneconomical to go on and on repairing the sturdy Liberation trucks , the government argued : far better to stimulate the economy by buying a glossy new vehicle , and throwing away the old . |
| 27 | And beaming proudly the 47-year-old superstar declared at London 's Heathrow airport : ‘ Never let it be said that I do n't carry the baby . ’ |
| 28 | During this time , I also spent many minutes examining the road atlas , and perusing also the relevant volumes of Mrs Jane Symons 's The Wonder of England . |
| 29 | Massive bikers hung around the door arguing like crazy with their denim-clad babes , intimidating newcomers and ensuring only the bravest got in . |
| 30 | Ready to concentrate on milking and hoeing and clearing away the broad beans and planting out the rest of the cabbages , so that everything was done before the harvest on Tuesday . |