Example sentences of "and [v-ing] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young nurse brought Michael a chair and he sat beside Joe , holding the old man 's hand and stroking it every now and again . |
| 2 | And there 's another possibility — that the Indians were actually following the argument between the Jesuits and understanding it a lot better than we thought . |
| 3 | In the evening of Valentine 's Day , do take two white oak leaves , and lay them across your pillow , when you go to bed , putting on a clean shift or shirt , and turning it the wrong side outwards , lay down and say these words aloud , ‘ Good Valentine be kind to me , in dreams let me my true love see . ’ |
| 4 | It simply means thinking a little about your diet and daily routine , and improving it a bit at a time . |
| 5 | The important thing I want you to have is , is start on that activity data sheet , get in your discipline of writing everything you do on that sheet and inputting it every week , so that you 're getting actual data as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Parsys Ltd , London NW , has come out with a new version of its 30MHz T805 Transputer-based SuperNode 1000 parallel processor optimised to run the Oracle Corp relational database system and calling it the SN2000 . |
| 7 | Other developments for the backpacker : Coleman are now making their Multifuel stove with a detachable fuel bottle and calling it the Apex stove . |
| 8 | So I settled for dusting off his shoulder and giving it a quick squeeze . |
| 9 | The schoolmaster then spent an endless period fussily sorting out his things — extracting a folded newspaper and a small bag of plums from his case , arranging the case on the rack , examining the seat minutely for anything unpleasant and giving it a brush with the back of his hand , folding his jacket and his jumper with ritualistic care , adjusting the window in consultation with the lady , but without reference to me or to the young Swede , getting his case down again for some forgotten item , checking his hankie , readjusting the window . |
| 10 | The methods of testing varies from kit to kit , but most consist of taking a sample of water and adding a few drops of the special reagent or tablet and giving it a shake . |
| 11 | Have you ever watched seasoned knitted diving into cartons of yarn , coming up with a cone and giving it a good sniff ? |
| 12 | After gingerly retrieving his whistle from the offending item and giving it a quick clean-up , McNally was immediately called on to blow it when he awarded a drop goal after a free-kick . |
| 13 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 14 | In rationalising the corporation and giving it the equipment that would allow it to compete with rivals , particularly foreign rivals , I had to have a capital programme . |
| 15 | Its lack of significance is that it made no real difference to the political situation , except for putting the burgh of Edinburgh through a rapid change of councils and giving it the burden of housing the army of the Congregation . |
| 16 | It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts . |
| 17 | The ‘ keys ’ or trigger features required to ‘ unlock ’ these two types of cell are rather simple — it is just a matter of applying a small stimulus in the right place , and giving it the correct sign , an increase for one and a decrease for the other . |
| 18 | But this could not be done without noise , especially the last , and hearing it the defenders lit first torches and then large beacons along the walls and opened up with their guns . |
| 19 | Even Napoleon found it expedient to buttress force by prescription , having antique gems implanted in his crown and terming it the crown of Charlemagne . |
| 20 | Even in England , half-inch diameter hail stones are not unknown , and these will smash canopies and ruin the surfaces , causing very expensive damage and making it a matter of luck to get out of the area and down safely . |
| 21 | Section C is taking the basic feel from A and making it a little busier ( this is a good technique to use over a middle 8 section in order to build it dynamically , but not lose the original direction for the song ) ; it then repeats to A and goes to the coda . |
| 22 | So I wish you and your family a particularly enjoyable festive season and look forward to working with you for a successful 1993 and making it a year that will bring real growth . |
| 23 | Erm , that concludes the business of the extraordinary general meeting erm , thank you very much for attending and making it a lively meeting and , erm , my colleagues and I will be pleased to , erm meet you in the foyer er , where refreshments are being served . |
| 24 | Because I see it is of fundamental importance to achieving the environmental objectives for the new settlement and making it a decent place to live . |
| 25 | The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years in cleaning up the town and making it the kind of place which is able to compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years , and making it the kind of place which is able and compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 27 | From then until his death in 1099 at the age of fifty-six , El Cid fought a series of dazzling campaigns against the Moors , taking the fortified city of Valencia and making it an impregnable fortress against his enemies When news of his death reached the rest of Spain , men and women wept openly in the streets , tearing their clothing and lacerating their cheeks in an extravagant display of mourning . |
| 28 | Continued involvement of TL scientists through the different seasons of excavation has enabled them to collect samples and bury capsules to measure the associated gamma radiation dose rate , burying a capsule one summer and retrieving it the next . |
| 29 | So Sinead O'Connor — probably our last remaining real rock star , a maverick , a 1000 per cent attack merchant constantly taking convention by the neck and shaking it the way a terrier shakes a rat , the woman who stormed into the Irish PM 's office over the abortion issue , who refused to sing the US national anthem , who correctly pointed out that George Bush leaves Saddam Hussein standing in the mass-murder stakes , who has exposed her own sad past in vivid , gory detail , whose every record has fully stretched and excited the expectations of her audience — has released a version of Loretta Lynn 's maudlin Country classic . |
| 30 | Unfortunately many of the Dizzy games were written on the Spectrum and ported across to the C64 , slowing the action hideously and leaving it a cruel parody of its Speccy counterpart . |