Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was rocking him gently as he fed and gazing in abstraction at the far corner of the room . |
| 2 | Miss Honey was leaning far forward over her work-table and gazing in wonder at the child . |
| 3 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 4 | Some of the conference 's decisions , he said , were " provoking a political crisis " and contributing to violence in the country . |
| 5 | If Ogarkov 's demotion in September 1984 revealed anything beyond a straight-forward preference to utilise his skills more effectively , then punishment came not for losing an argument , but for breaking the rules — for carrying on arguments after being overruled and pressing for prerogatives in the military-technical and military-political areas which were not rightfully his . |
| 6 | The French won but it was a Pyrrhic victory and their victorious momentum was lost ; they contented themselves with sailing up the Ouse , burning settlements on the way and anchoring within sight of the town before they withdrew . |
| 7 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 8 | They are sandwich-boards for Oedipal tendencies , eagerly disposing of the father — they reject authority , law , the land — and reverting with fervour to the embrace of the all-mothering sea . |
| 9 | While other holidaymakers end up changing their last few pesetas and returning to bills on the doormat , bronzed Antonia was laughing all the way to her agent Max Clifford . |
| 10 | Walkers on the Three Peaks marathon usually start from Horton in Ribblesdale and do the journey anti-clockwise , visiting Penyghent , Whernside and Ingleborough in that order and returning to Horton from the last named by a route that approximates to a beeline . |
| 11 | Buying her new clothes helped , with all the half-forgotten luxury of choosing the models in Dior 's grey-and-gold salon and returning for fittings as the suits and dresses were moulded to her figure . |
| 12 | And there was being thrown from the railway bridge and landing on top of the moving carriage . |
| 13 | It took a crew of sixty a week to set up the stage and seating in front of the ruined tithe barn in the grounds of Sudeley Castle for the four day festival . |
| 14 | I finished the final draft with Mrs Perera in an intensive session of eight hours one hot June Sunday , starting in her garden in Cheshire and ending towards midnight with the dispatch of the document by express courier for delivery to Mr Baker in London on the Monday . |
| 15 | Gull-like in appearance , with gliding and soaring flight , they feed by settling on the water and bobbing for plankton at the surface . |
| 16 | But such work must be done , and field men put in several hours each week in their area offices , writing reports , keeping records up to date , drafting letters , answering the telephone and communicating with colleagues in the field and staff at headquarters . |
| 17 | The pace of technological change is such that the latest generation of machines is now capable of drawing graphs , working out algebraic formulae , correcting spelling mistakes and communicating with computers outside the examination room . |
| 18 | We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue . |
| 19 | ‘ At first her thoughts would wander aimlessly , like her greyhound , which ran in circles , yapping after yellow butterflies , chasing field-mice and nibbling at poppies on the edge of a cornfield . |
| 20 | The endowment mortgage has become the most common form of loan , where life assurance protection and saving for repayment of the mortgage are conveniently combined . |
| 21 | JIM BAKKER , the fallen televangelist , was convicted yesterday of swindling followers of his Praise The Lord ministry out of more than $150m ( £90m ) and syphoning off part of the money to fund his extravagant lifestyle . |
| 22 | At first she had complained to Aggie , saying they were stupid because they taught nothing but the abc and counting , and that most of the time was spent singing hymns and listening to stories from the Bible . |
| 23 | We 'd drive to different towns around Toronto — road trips , you know , just hanging out and listening to tunes in the car , drumming on the dashboard . |
| 24 | With so many part-time holdings the wives did much of the feeding and tending of stock during the winter but it was an area where neither husbands nor wives had been active in training . |
| 25 | Such representation must take the form of an onshore administrative unit of the undertaking , commensurate with the size of the latter and operating with responsibility for the technical and commercial management of the fishing vessels concerned ( manning , wages , welfare benefits , leave , taxation , repairs , ships ' supplies , etc . ) . |
| 26 | From Table 4.1 it can be seen that almost one-third of IT postgraduates would be unemployed and looking for work at the end of their course . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's why I 'm always encouraging and looking for opportunities for the team . |
| 28 | In her case it was accepted that many women in their 20s are involved in child birth and looking after children with the consequences that they are out of the employment market . |
| 29 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |
| 30 | She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption . |