Example sentences of "and [v-ing] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg . |
| 2 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Dr Losberne , of course , was full of immediate plans to rush round London arresting all the gang and hanging them at once . |
| 5 | Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation . |
| 6 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 7 | Toolbars are also customizable ; you can construct your own by dragging tools from existing bars and attaching them to your own . |
| 8 | This is not , in fact , a problem , since LIFESPAN provides the tools for creating other DCs as the need arises and attaching them to the same package . |
| 9 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 10 | Heads could make better use of their time by paying attention to those encouraging little friendly attributes , searching for the successes of others and praising them shamelessly . |
| 11 | If these words , often carelessly spoken , can have such a long-term and devastating effect , think how much good we can do by encouraging our children and praising them for what they have achieved . |
| 12 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 13 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 14 | Social groups create deviance by making rules whose infraction constitutes deviance and by applying those rules to particular people and labelling them as outsiders . |
| 15 | belittling the problem as defined by the parents and labelling them as over-anxious |
| 16 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 17 | It was a common thing to find people searching the garbage heaps for orange peel , old bones or other refuse , and eating them greedily when found . |
| 18 | We spend much of our time buying food , planning meals and eating them . |
| 19 | write to manufacturers informing them of your choice and encouraging them to sell goods packaged in recyclable materials |
| 20 | attempts to harness the adaptability of labour power by giving workers leeway and encouraging them to adapt to changing situations in a manner beneficial to the firm . |
| 21 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 22 | Not only are they going to find themselves deliberately and actively squeezed from above and below by the very organisation , the ATP Tour , which is supposed to be protecting and encouraging them but they still have to compete against exhibition events , with open cheque books , for a handful of top players . |
| 23 | There is all the difference in the world between encouraging people to feel good , and encouraging them to feel good about the situation . |
| 24 | This would involve identifying those who could satisfy criteria or competence and reliability , and encouraging them by removing some of the administrative restrictions now applying . |
| 25 | contacting employers and encouraging them to use the ES to fill their vacancies ; |
| 26 | For one thing poor countries produce similar commodities , and encouraging them to increase their exports has flooded the market . |
| 27 | The Labour party is telling those investors that they are not welcome here and encouraging them to go elsewhere . |
| 28 | The report examined research from the United Kingdom , the United States and Australia , and concluded that cigarette advertising is getting through to children and encouraging them to smoke and to carry on smoking . |
| 29 | What is needed therefore is central government legislation requiring new owners to preserve existing access rights — and encouraging them to provide more . |
| 30 | The way to change the situation is by harnessing staff expertise and encouraging them to become part of the process of customer service . ’ |