Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] in the " 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 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Terry Dicks , not so well known , was crushing beer cans and tossing them in the direction of France . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ There , ’ he said , claiming her achievement as his own and inflating it in the process . |
| 12 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " 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 . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Tissues respond to the presence of tubercle bacilli by forming a fibrous wall round the organisms and encasing them in the small nodules called tubercles . |
| 19 | In its origin [ Christianity ] presents to man and woman a glorious picture of sexual integrity : the Son of God who has become man and flesh , knowing from inside his Father 's work and perfecting it in the total self-giving of himself , not only of his spiritual but precisely also of his physical powers , giving not only to one individual but to all . |
| 20 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 21 | , Flora Jane ( 1876–1947 ) , writer , was born in Juniper Hill , a hamlet in north-east Oxfordshire , 5 December 1876 , the eldest child in the family of four daughters and two sons of Albert Timms , a stonemason , originally from Buckingham , and his wife Emma , a nursemaid , daughter of John Dibber from Stoke Lyne , an ‘ eggler ’ , who took his pony and cart around local farms , collecting eggs and selling them in the market town . |
| 22 | The plaintiff , by going to Eastbourne , obtaining the money , and remitting it in the manner suggested , made it a binding contract on the part of Mr. Kennard that he would not serve the bankruptcy notice . ’ |
| 23 | Jimmy returned with arms full of torches , switching each on and positioning them in the brackets of the huge copper boilers , or on the floor so that surreal fans of light were cast against the dirty plaster walls . |
| 24 | He raped the pregnant woman , whom he knew , at her Wigan home last autumn , after suddenly losing his temper and punching her in the face . |
| 25 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 26 | And here is the miracle wrought of changing mental thought into the material and enshrining it in the chemistry of the body for ever . |
| 27 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 28 | I remember once having to chase a man who had done something nasty to someone , and losing him in the darkness as he dashed down a cobbled mews . |
| 29 | The mass rally in Florence by the Christian Democrats — who are increasing their support in the south and losing it in the north — to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the start of the Christian Democrat movement , and the appeal to ‘ trust those who know how to govern ’ , seemed curiously old-fashioned and out of key . |
| 30 | He begins without ceremony by pulling off the blouse and flinging it in the gully . |