Example sentences of "and [v-ing] they [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 2 | There he was , having a grand time pulling off clusters of half-grown green apples and gobbling them up . |
| 3 | The analysis also confirms the strong record of the course in retaining students and seeing them through to their final qualifications . |
| 4 | Caird specialises in buying small waste management and landfill companies , integrating them and bringing them up to existing and proposed European standards on waste disposal . |
| 5 | Yes I must say I , I personally sympathy with that I mean I think that erm , women 's er role is er very much despised and disparaged it should be because if you think about it they 're having the children and bringing them up , well this is one of the most worthwhile things to do |
| 6 | Oh Jim we got a big four foot o , you know , opening in the floor , lowering the machines and bringing them up . |
| 7 | But , George is off Monday and Tuesday but so if you were getting them , sitting here and bringing them up on Thursday John can come here and get his tea here and then take them home . |
| 8 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | By promoting economic aspects and bringing them out into the open for everyone to see , we are contributing towards better informed decisions on the part of prescribers and policy makers alike . ’ |
| 10 | Some of these things as well , they 've been pinching back from upstairs , toys they , they 've played with when they were smaller and they do n't play with them now and I put them upstairs out of the way and they keep going and finding them and bringing them down . |
| 11 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 12 | It was always a project which was in parallel with Queen , because we always had a positive attitude to people doing stuff outside the band , getting new experiences and bringing them back into the band . |
| 13 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 14 | When they were n't running across it , cheered on by the headmaster , they were snipping bits off it and bringing them back to school to put in jars . |
| 15 | More importantly , he wanted to match exactly his accounts of meeting ‘ rough trade ’ in the street and bringing them back . |
| 16 | We are not talking about removing powers from the layer of government below local government and sucking them up ; we are talking about taking power from the centre . |
| 17 | Yes , they 'd , they 'd get paid twice , oh for letting 'em go and roping 'em in , I mean when a ship was swinging there 's somebody , I mean when a ship was swinging at Cliff Quay , there 's somebody got ta let go of the erm , the spring what they 're swinging on . |
| 18 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 19 | Hence philosophical analysis can and must proceed by erm philosophical thinking must proceed by analysis , by breaking down complex wholes into their simple parts and building them up by construction out of these simple parts , a conviction to which Russell remained true for the rest of his life . |
| 20 | Up in the chestnut branches girls and boys were clambering about , hitting at the spiked green conkers and knocking them down on to the heads below . |
| 21 | Or is this yet another example of the Government and their supporters talking up human rights in theory and knocking them down in practice ? |
| 22 | Audio compression can also be achieved by identifying acceptable levels of redundancy and stripping them out . |
| 23 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 24 | Oscars are notorious for their habit of becoming ‘ stuck on one type of food and starving them out of it can be painful for both the fish and the keeper . |
| 25 | She liked to spend her time with the other old people , exchanging grumbles and , as she put it , cheerin' them up and takin' them out o' themselves . |
| 26 | Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success . |
| 27 | Nonesuch reverts to its old function , keeping the University as a whole together , telling graduates what is going on in their old alma mater , and keeping them up to date with what their contemporaries are doing . |
| 28 | You may find it useful to have a user directory for the LIFESPAN Manager ; there will be certain command files etc. which you may wish to build for routine activities , and keeping them out of SYS$LIFESPAN : is helpful , as discussed in Appendix A. Whether you then choose to have this directory or SYS$LIFESPAN : as the LIFESPAN Manager 's default directory is up to you . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think they might be quite interested in the way we 're bringing up great sedimentary land masses from the south , and driving them up and over the geosynclinal rocks in their path . ’ |
| 30 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |