Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 2 | Taking one of a pair of identical towers and re-building in another form , e.g. helps the child towards the idea of invariance of number — there are the same number of blocks ‘ before ’ and ‘ after ’ although they look different . |
| 3 | This study will focus in addition on the responses made by schools , examining issues such as how they obtain , interpret and act upon clues regarding the preferences of parents of potential pupils , and what factors constrain them in understanding and reacting to such information . |
| 4 | In open play , 'Mere seemed more interested in arguing with the referee and reacting to any niggle from the opposition . |
| 5 | He 's a really good man , who is suffering from ‘ technology shock , ’ and reacting by some heavy psychological things . |
| 6 | Because I mean we 've helped you with this and helping with that anyway . |
| 7 | Well , Stan Bowes , thank you very much indeed for joining me this afternoon — Stan Bowes , head of marketing for Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board and helping with this look at the tourist industry . |
| 8 | The super-sharp , non-clogging blades of this Draper Rasp Set are designed for fast cutting and shaping for all sorts of materials . |
| 9 | In August , however , she and Andrew were billing and cooing about each other in Hello ! magazine . |
| 10 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
| 11 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 12 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |
| 13 | A number of distinct bands were recognised , and binding to some of these ( 110 kDa , 45 kDa ) was salt concentration dependent . |
| 14 | Women have been central in the leadership , organisation and maintaining of these structures , dealing with health care , education , food production and distribution , the internal economy etc . |
| 15 | Every Sunday of his childhood he was at chapel hearing the Bible in Welsh and singing in that intricate melodious tongue . |
| 16 | You mentioned earlier walking in one tempo and singing in another . |
| 17 | ‘ Right ! ’ said the Old Stager , leaning back and gazing at some passing clouds . |
| 18 | First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector . |
| 19 | The producers approached the Psarias family to film family celebrations at the Olive Tree , scenes from Sunday celebrations in the Greek Orthodox Church , and cooking with some of the Greek women . |
| 20 | Recipes , for example , were arranged alphabetically in sections , with ingredients , prices , weights , and cooking times all precisely stated , on the basis of tests carried out by the author in her own kitchen . |
| 21 | And including in that travel time , must be the congestion which they will face as they approach Leeds which which already is er a difficult problem . |
| 22 | ‘ This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) . |
| 23 | And sticking to that sofa ! |
| 24 | ( c ) No partner should carry on any business which competes with the firm or from which he derives benefit at the expense of the firm Section 30 of the Partnership Act provides as follows : If a partner , without the consent of the other partners , carries on any business of the same nature as and competing with that of the firm , he must account for and pay over to the firm all profits made by him in that business . |
| 25 | NATO already had an Allied Mobile Force , first created in 1960 and consisting of several dozen aircraft and a 5,000-strong mixed-nationality division under German command . |
| 26 | First , the ‘ Thatcherite ’ myth of a leaner , fitter economic structure , engendered via market forces , and producing at some unspecified future date a buoyant economy with full employment , has been exposed as a myth , from numerous ideological standpoints . |
| 27 | Everyone was beaming and weeping at this display , this proof of human richness . |
| 28 | I mean no disrespect to the geriatric branch of the hospital service nor to the domiciliary services or the rapidly increasing old people 's houses and homes provided by local housing , health and welfare authorities when I say that I believe we are still groping and fumbling with this problem — all of us , social scientists and politicians alike . |
| 29 | There 's a lot of banging and crashing on this tape . |
| 30 | Taking the figures for smokers and non-smokers and allowing for all competing causes of death , the conclusion is that around one in 20 of the lung cancers in the UK may be due to radon exposure at home . |