Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] in [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been spoiled by being able to buy a mango whenever we fancy one , but we 've got to return to cooking turnips in November and having tomatoes in July . |
| 2 | Margaret Brasnett in her Story of the Citizens advice Bureaux in 1964 talks of the ‘ need for people who are good at keeping papers in order and seeing that information material is filed and kept up-to-date ’ . |
| 3 | Although the Avar army withdrew after sacking towns in Friuli and killing the Duke of Friuli , the raid of 610 appears to mark the beginning of Slav colonisation of the upper Sava valley . |
| 4 | Rachel Sylvester spent the summer helping orphans in Mozambique and came back with graphic and horrific reports of the tragedies resulting from the civil war . |
| 5 | Christian Education Movement — A grant of £16,693 was approved to create a 3 year part-time post which will develop curriculum material and teaching strategies in RE and PSE in schools in the principles and issues of world development . |
| 6 | But Bruno Ramon , fibres sales executive for Courtaulds Italia , is doing his best , coaching eight-to-12-year-olds in Milan and hoping to unearth a star of the future . |
| 7 | The aim of the seminar was to identify problems facing women in China and to discuss how the media can promote women 's development . |
| 8 | Which is if , I mean when he was giving lectures in government and binding , people would invited him would put up posters saying government and binding so he got all the wrong audiences . |
| 9 | Then I taught in a secondary modern in Hackney , before getting involved in the pioneering days of schools ' drama , touring happily doing plays in schools and inspiring them to do their own . ’ |
| 10 | Deregulating buses in London and privatising the London Buses subsidiaries . |
| 11 | As is the case with most areas of text-linguistics , linguists tend to concentrate on the analysis of signalling devices in English and extrapolate from that to other languages . |
| 12 | Yet virtually the first time we climbed together , had n't we spent nigh on a month clipping bolts in France and loving it ? |
| 13 | ‘ I know what you mean — it 's like clinking glasses in England and saying ‘ cheers ’ . ’ |
| 14 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 15 | Evidence shows that untreated milk has a higher nutritional value and contains anti-infective agents which can both restrict the growth of contaminating bacteria in milk and give the consumer protection against infection . |