Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story . |
| 2 | Dr Losberne , of course , was full of immediate plans to rush round London arresting all the gang and hanging them at once . |
| 3 | ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg . |
| 4 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Like some coffee ? ’ said Wilcox , taking her coat and hanging it on the back of the door . |
| 6 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 7 | Shaken off balance by her startling thoughts , Isabel glanced away , stepping out of her gown and hanging it over the table . |
| 8 | Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation . |
| 9 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 10 | Toolbars are also customizable ; you can construct your own by dragging tools from existing bars and attaching them to your own . |
| 11 | This is not , in fact , a problem , since LIFESPAN provides the tools for creating other DCs as the need arises and attaching them to the same package . |
| 12 | Preliminary identification of the peptide binding to the SSB oligonucleotide was accomplished by synthesising a 5' biotinolyated SSB oligonucleotide and attaching it to magnetic Dynal beads coated with streptavidin . |
| 13 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 14 | Taking her hand warmly in his and tucking it into his pocket , he ordered softly , ‘ Tell me about Elinor Browne with an ‘ E ’ . ’ |
| 15 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 16 | If these words , often carelessly spoken , can have such a long-term and devastating effect , think how much good we can do by encouraging our children and praising them for what they have achieved . |
| 17 | It may be extremely hard for your employer to justify a poor grading at assessment time when earlier in the year you received a letter from the chairman specifically thanking and praising you for your efforts . |
| 18 | Fellow worker Hazel Goff , who has St John 's Ambulance training , then administered first aid , cutting away Mr Chittenden 's burnt clothing and sponging him with water . |
| 19 | The Parish Council have asked me to get an estimate from you for replacing the seat in its original position and concreting it in place . |
| 20 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 21 | It was supposed to shoot back up again , hitting my jutting backside en route and pitching me across the stage , but it did n't . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 … |
| 23 | Social groups create deviance by making rules whose infraction constitutes deviance and by applying those rules to particular people and labelling them as outsiders . |
| 24 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 25 | Jim ( no one who knows him calls him Iggy ) being Jim was squatting on the table stuffing everyone else 's venison into his roll and eating it with his fingers . |
| 26 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 27 | Tearing down the temple and re-building it in three days . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This would involve identifying those who could satisfy criteria or competence and reliability , and encouraging them by removing some of the administrative restrictions now applying . |
| 30 | Over the last few years the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) has been active in consulting with British industry and encouraging it to be competitive in the European market . |