Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There lies the genuine stake today , in this underhand , inescapable confrontation between the silent majority and the social imposed on them , in this hypersimulation reduplicating simulation and exterminating it according to its own logic — not in any class struggle nor in the molecular hodge-podge of desire-breaching minorities . |
| 2 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 3 | The factory farm doors are now being flung open and the terrible truth behind them is driving shoppers away from chops and steaks and poultry of unknown origin and sending them flocking in search of free-range eggs and chickens . |
| 4 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 5 | The second hit him in the right shoulder , the impact lifting him off his feet and sending him toppling towards the head of the stairs . |
| 6 | The door shot open , knocking Bill from his feet and sending him sprawling across the sidewalk . |
| 7 | ‘ Keeping her man under her eye and calling it looking after him . ’ |
| 8 | And it 's trying to pull the planets in , Lee , but other stars are pulling them and stopping them falling into the sun . |
| 9 | Very dan very difficult you 've got to take steps of blocking off drains and stopping it getting in the waterways and you , you succeed sometimes , you do n't success on other times and this is why er these accidents happen where all the fish and places die and people get contaminated , cattle get contaminated , all sorts of things . |
| 10 | He 's already had two anyway through recognising people that have been through his hands in the cell block , an following 'em and finding them climbing through a window . |
| 11 | If , alongside this , boys are allowed to develop e.g. their caring faculties and to contemplate traditionally female careers such as nursing and social work , we might also see fewer boys taking A level mathematics and finding it unsatisfying for them , as Sheila Russell 's research ( 1983 ) indicated is all too frequently the case . |
| 12 | Because so much of the activity is in searching for information and processing it leading to a decision , the observed output is obviously a poor indicator of total activity and his verbal commentary is a much better guide to his task performance . |
| 13 | This involves taking a sample of households and classifying them according to their income groups . |