Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina followed her eagerly , laughing as she showed her friend how to body-surf on the smaller waves , and then how to dive and tread water waiting for a really big wave . |
| 2 | Cumberland Lodge was and is a remarkable foundation : a grace and favour house belonging to the sovereign which , in the years after the War , had been set aside to serve as a meeting-place for university teachers and students . |
| 3 | Many bright ideas — and failed ideas looking for a second lease on life — are being put forward as ways of converting weapon-grade plutonium into a form too awkward for the weapon-minded to bother with . |
| 4 | The gallery was filled with smoke , the guttural screams and crackling sounds coming from the chamber occupied by the secretary , Cosmas . |
| 5 | Solution ( or dissolution ) is the simplest process whereby minerals can be decomposed and involves water acting as a solvent . |
| 6 | The mass spectrometer imposes electric and magnetic fields on the ions in such a way as to separate and count ions according to the ratio of mass to charge , and thus to establish the mass of the molecule . |
| 7 | ‘ My husband Rob went outside and found Oliver lying on the floor saying his neck was hurting and he could not move . ’ |
| 8 | Jack came in the side door and found Aengus sitting in the cloakroom studying his glasses . |
| 9 | Fox woke , and found Mouse kneeling at the basin , rinsing clean both his own messkit and hers . |
| 10 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 11 | The wall surrounding the house next to the road was demolished , with large chunks of masonry and shell splinters whistling through the trees . |
| 12 | It was exciting to travel up on the night train and to find Granny waiting beside the fire in the hall , as exhilarated by the festivities as any of her grandchildren . |
| 13 | A convenient notes section on each page points out major features encountered and emphasises detail occurring in the plate illustrated . |
| 14 | Management need these systems in order to help them establish sustainable goals and to provide information relating to the long-term decisions of the organisation . |
| 15 | to publish and disseminate information relating to the curriculum for schools |
| 16 | He walked along Platform 2 and noticed smoke coming from the signal box . |
| 17 | In November 1971 the Council set up a committee to consider its future relationships with the colleges — ‘ to consider what changes are desirable to afford greater independence to polytechnics and colleges in planning and operating courses leading to the Council 's degrees ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps an interim step would be to develop the concept of co-operative or team teaching with the class teacher and support teacher working as a team , each sharing the responsibility for the education of all children , similar to the model described by Bell and Best ( 1986 ) . |
| 19 | Civic Forum contested the elections as a coalition of groups and parties from the conservative to the far left , and favouring approaches varying from the centre-liberal to the social democratic sections of the political spectrum . |
| 20 | As they dragged her away from the flaming Audi , she had turned and seen Adam lying on the road , shielding himself . |
| 21 | The stunt was practised in slow motion , before the cameras rolled and captured Crawford zooming between the lorry 's wheels as it moved at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 22 | Capital financing and budgeting proposals relating to the above |
| 23 | Capital financing and budgeting proposals relating to the above |
| 24 | where the issue is tangential and raises considerations going beyond the scope of the Convention or too complex to be covered in it . |
| 25 | This year Biggin 's organisers are opening the show site a day early , on Friday 19 June , to give the public an opportunity to see aircraft arriving for the Air Fair and watch performers practising for the airshow . |
| 26 | Turnover shall represent the net value of deliveries made , or services rendered and includes adjustments arising from the use of estimated prices in previous years . |
| 27 | Information exempt from disclosure is defined and includes information relating to an individual 's education . |
| 28 | And they got the survey going , and they got enough people to volunteer to go round and interviewing people living in the flats , to get all the information that was required . |
| 29 | An advertisement appeared in the Scotsman drawing attention to the sale of " the whole valuable stock of letter-press and printing materials belonging to the Caledonian Press , who are giving up business with the premises No. 31 Hanover Street " . |
| 30 | The model will simulate a ‘ linguistic agent ’ able to generate and interpret discourse relating to a specific task . |