Example sentences of "and [v-ing] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , almost as if he had received some secret signal , he gave a slight nod of his head , grinning sardonically down at her for a moment before rolling off her body and gathering one of the twins up in his arms . |
| 2 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 3 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 4 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 5 | From 1651 he worked from the Bell in St Paul 's Churchyard , developing a prosperous partnership with James Allestry , and becoming one of the most prominent booksellers of Restoration London . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , look at this one , ’ said the interviewer , becoming quite indignant and picking one of the schools ' letters contemptuously from the pile . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's trapped … and facing one of the toughest weeks of his life ’ |
| 8 | Coupled to a portable computer and running one of the new generation presentation graphics programs they make a powerful presentation aid for all but the biggest of occasions . |
| 9 | The baby 's father , who was the man called Martin , was sitting a little way off on a deckchair , chewing an unlit pipe , and reading one of the Sunday papers . |
| 10 | The unprovoked action sparked off what was to become a national emergency , lasting up to 1960 and involving one of the most hard-fought jungle campaigns of this century . |
| 11 | Around 1839 the family moved to Coniston where , in 1840 , he obtained a start at the copper mine doing sundry or day work and renting one of the mine cottages . |
| 12 | Your mouth stays beautiful when you 're lying , ’ he quipped drily , closing the door and clicking one of the locks . |