Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | RSPB official Stan Davies said : ‘ The area is important to migrating and wintering birds as it remains frost-free . ’ |
| 32 | The Moorings ' holidays offered through Caribbean Connection range from fully crewed charter to combined hotel and sailing holidays where you stay at an hotel on Tortola or St Lucia , either learning to sail or combining the pleasures of a beach holiday with sailing . |
| 33 | IN THE early '80s , we all went round wearing zoot suits and drinking daiquiris and we thought rock music was crap . |
| 34 | Even painting and decorating Dave as you say |
| 35 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 36 | We can use this approach through postponing decisions , meetings and finding solutions until we have all the necessary information and all the right people present . |
| 37 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 38 | ‘ Director ’ No. 5504 ‘ Jutland ’ passes the junction and housing estate as it approaches Nottingham with a train from Manchester in 1932 . |
| 39 | ‘ They are going out and pinching cars because they 've got no money and nothing else to do . |
| 40 | And — to cap it all — there is no source of drinking water on the island — unless you are clever enough to find some way of catching and storing rain when it falls , which it does almost every day . |
| 41 | I could see through slitted eyes many people who had the comfort of being three-dimensional , walking and talking words that I knew . |
| 42 | Do you remember them going away and leaving and leaving Nancy and she had that |
| 43 | She grabbed the receiver while Nina stood up , anticipating trouble , and watching Rachel as she took the call . |
| 44 | As with all denizens of Fairyland , the glastyn may be perverse as well as benign by turn , and reports have been noted of those who have run amok , raping women and destroying crops if they have been slighted in any way . |
| 45 | ‘ In a smaller firm there was [ would be ] a great deal of personal cooperation with people giving and receiving favours as they collaborated about their tasks , and ‘ there was a lack of competition and everything was worked out in a fair-deal way ’ . |
| 46 | Her greatest interest seems to be in writing and receiving letters and she watches television , plays music and reads , usually magazines not books . |
| 47 | You can link them to show that one task has to be completed before another can be started , and rearranging tasks if you make a mistake is no problem — you simply drag them to where you want them . |
| 48 | Erm I would say that in the past the loyalist paramilitaries , apart from the obvious thing which was easy going out just and killing catholics as they 've been doing recently . |