Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] and [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will be working alongside the base staff , encouraging them and assisting them in their work with local churches , ministering to the homeless in Hyderabad and working among a gypsy group in the country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He could think of nothing but disguising himself and rushing her on a dark night . |
| 4 | Perhaps next year or the year after we shall consider abandoning minimum sizes , landing everything and taking everything off catch quotas for each boat in order to abolish discards . |
| 5 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 6 | I 'm going upstairs and I 'm stripping her and taking her into the bath with me . ’ |
| 7 | The Founders were to be the guardians of the purity of the paper , protecting it and keeping it in touch with the grass roots which they represented . |
| 8 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 9 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 10 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 11 | But when you 've got people stood behind a desk and serving you and doing nothing but serving you as you come . |
| 12 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 13 | the gathering up of all this scattered craft knowledge , systematising it and concentrating it in the hands of the employer and then doling it out again only in the form of minute instructions , giving to each worker only the knowledge needed for the performance of a particular relatively minute task . |
| 14 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 15 | In England , until the sixteenth century , it was unremarkable to speak of visitations from incubi and succubi — evil spirits ( male and female , respectively ) which were thought to descend on sleepers , seducing them and perverting them to the ways of the devil . |
| 16 | They were kicking me and hitting me with a big bar . |
| 17 | With synthetic fabrics , it may be sufficient to just stop wearing them and using them as bedding for a while , to see if this is beneficial . |
| 18 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 19 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The Profitboss devotes time and effort to this , taking his team away periodically to discuss their vision of excellence , clarifying it , refining it and defining it in terms of the best standards , the best contribution , the best performance . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 22 | You realise how subtle it is when you watch a beaver painstakingly placing a pole on its dam , being visibly dissatisfied with its position , removing it and tugging it into another , until it is at last convinced that it has been effectively deployed . |
| 23 | Are losing theirs and blaming it on you |
| 24 | He thought he was helping everybody and doing everything for himself but he were n't , he was stopping |
| 25 | He moved swiftly , catching her and spinning her into his arms . |
| 26 | ‘ Why are you showing me these documents ? ’ he asked when he had finished reading them and passed them to me . |
| 27 | I do hope you enjoy reading them and have lots of fun trying out new ideas . |
| 28 | Anpetuwi , where he had come with his hurt and confusion , and Anpetuwi , which had not disappointed him , taking him and holding him in its gentle heart as a mother held a child . |
| 29 | Signora Silvana Ciammarughi , the owner and creator of this unique establishment , nursed for a long time the dream of acquiring some old house of character , converting it and running it as a hotel . |
| 30 | The backing sheet is then removed from the film before wetting it and applying it to the window . |