Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just look at that ( stabbing a piece and holding it up in mid-air ) . |
| 2 | Season to taste with salt and white pepper , then cover the sauce with greaseproof paper to prevent it from forming a skin and allow it to cool completely . |
| 3 | Record the salient terms of the sale ( eg the purchase price , whether the property is freehold or leasehold , desired date of completion , etc ; in the case of a buyer , that the purchase is subject to selling the buyer 's own house or seeking a mortgage and to keep you informed as to his or her success ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I had heard about Smailovic and his Sarajevan Opera String Quartet some time ago and had the idea of offering him support by writing a piece and joining him in one of his concerts at the front line . ’ |
| 5 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 6 | W w would people go out of their way to seek to find someone who was particularly skilled and with building a load and did they take |
| 7 | He feinted left , drawing a punch and slipping it , then played the bluff and went in fast , going left again . |
| 8 | that you would be allowed to do notes drawing a note and use it . |
| 9 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 10 | I mean , that 's just a , a brief using a frame and re-cutting it . |
| 11 | Extracting water from deeper aquifers involves drilling a well and lining it with slotted steel or PVC pipes surrounded by a packing of pea-sized gravel . |
| 12 | He recalled once buying a foal and taking it home on the bus ! |
| 13 | It just means buying a telephone and plugging it in . |
| 14 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
| 15 | As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net . |
| 16 | , You enter the downwind leg while flying a Bonanza and find you are about 400 metres behind a Piper Tri-Pacer which is flying considerably more slowly than you are . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll be faced with enormous problems but it 's a matter of having a dream and following it through . ’ |
| 18 | The New Hall collection , though primarily painted works made for hanging , extends these preoccupations : Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 's ‘ Fleshy Face ’ meditates on the feminine-coded colour pink with mordant hyperbole ; Judith Cowan 's ‘ Skin and Blister ’ ( rhyming slang for ‘ sister ’ ) transforms a common saucepan into an authoritative sculptural form ; Maggi Hambling takes a shocking newspaper image of a Gulf woman in a chador wielding a bazooka and suffuses it again with blooming pink , the garish , violated hue of feminine cosiness . |
| 19 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
| 20 | Decisions are usually reached by consensus , rather than by a senior manager taking a decision and selling it or imposing it on his subordinates . |
| 21 | After fornication with a woman then the one who would join would show his love of the Unholy by taking a child and killing it . |
| 22 | I think the idea of taking a fox and having it ripped apart legitimized by our society is a bad message to pass onto our children ! |
| 23 | ‘ If I can give a player an extra metre it 's the difference between winning a ball and losing it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Nice one , Greg ! ’ chortles the yellow shirt , folding a bra and putting it back in the drawer . |
| 25 | All my life I have seen that type of person , handsome and self-assured , who knew he could have me just by crooking a finger and beckoning me to follow . |
| 26 | Still he knelt in front of her , and Maria sat forward , lifting a hand and laying it open-palmed against the side of his face for a moment before tracing the angle of his cheek with gentle fingers . |
| 27 | When Jesus is arrested in Gethsemane , at least one of his followers is actually carrying a sword and uses it to lop off the ear of an attendant of the High Priest ; in the Fourth Gospel , the man with the sword is specifically identified as Simon Peter . |
| 28 | ‘ Comin' up , ’ Jenkins replied , uncapping a Budweiser and placing it on the counter in front of Laidlaw . |
| 29 | Hooking a fish and letting it suffocate in a creel is seemingly acceptable to all fishermen and many other people . |
| 30 | Setting a strategy and putting it into action are challenges that can overwhelm even the most effective managers . |