Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life . |
| 2 | Corbett went back to his notes about Lady Eleanor 's death , twisting and turning them . |
| 3 | Adam went back to his private world as the plane bucked across the sky , the unseen hands of the veering winds twisting and turning it as it flew towards Hanover . |
| 4 | Her fingers worked at a small lace handkerchief , twisting and untwisting it in an extremity of nervous tension . |
| 5 | They now start to harass the bigger bird , calling incessantly and loudly , twisting and jerking their bodies and even making mock attacks . |
| 6 | The lean wind grips him , twisting and pulling his hair . |
| 7 | More sinister changelings became channels for daemons which walked the land in those host bodies , twisting and melting their anatomy into devilish monstrosities with scales and horns , claws and feelers — until the possessed bodies finally fell apart , until the vestiges of corrupted mind were sucked away as spirit-meat for those parasites from outside of normality . |
| 8 | It was marred by a puckered scar which had destroyed his cheek , beginning just above the right-hand corner of his mouth , but , fortunately for him , narrowly missed his eye to disappear into his hair , twisting and distorting his whole face . |
| 9 | ‘ Keep on walking and talk your way out of it , ’ I told myself . |
| 10 | The Press enclosure was in the Members ' Stand and the scene around us was indescribable as the staid ‘ more English than the English ’ burghers of Adelaide and their wives stood up booing and shaking their fists . |
| 11 | Polish technicians were at work assembling and checking it out during mid-October . |
| 12 | And the story behind these instruments is that Roberto Brandoni , a London-based importer of Italian musical goods , stumbled upon a warehouse full of necks , bodies and parts , bought the lot and is currently assembling and selling them . |
| 13 | I spent hours assembling and re-assembling it . |
| 14 | And it 's my contention , it 's my contention that them people that were er strafing and bombing me , er outside , er in republican Spain , was the same was the same crowd was the same crowd that were bombing and strafing several years later , in the in in the second world war , in in in France er and Holland . |
| 15 | He drew deeply on the cigarette — hand-rolled , Matthew could not help noticing and hoped no-one else had — in his holder . |
| 16 | On May 24 Pakistan ordered a senior Indian diplomat to leave the country after he accused Pakistani intelligence officials of abducting and torturing him . |
| 17 | The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road . |
| 18 | In 1961 he took off for New York city to pay his respects to his latest hero , hobo and folk singer Woody Guthrie , then dying of Huntington 's Chorea ; and he returned to Minneapolis later that year a-singing and a-playing , mumbling and slurring his words , just like Woody himself . |
| 19 | To make these issues more tractable , it is helpful to consider the historical value of the three types of information produced by businesses , its usefulness the business historian , and the cost of keeping and using it : |
| 20 | Budgetary accounting refers to the practice of many public sector organizations , and particularly governments , in keeping and presenting their operating accounts in the same format and alongside their budgets . |
| 21 | Finally , write down the gist of what you hear ; this stops you interrupting and means you do n't have to rely on that useless thing , memory . |
| 22 | From such an analysis we can pick out causes and action points : we are then in a better position to understand what is happening and to do something about it . |
| 23 | She crept quietly down to find out what was happening and heard her 5-year-old girl tell her 3-year-old brother to open the fridge and get out some chocolate . |
| 24 | Then she guessed what was happening and shut her eyes , feeling disgusted and frightened . |
| 25 | BUT it 's not like The U2 or The U2s , which is already happening and ruins it . ’ |
| 26 | Naturally I welcome the fact that the reforms are revealing the extent of NHS underfunding , but this will only be of benefit if you acknowledge what is happening and do something about it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This was thought by trade unionists to be inconsistent with the leading decision of ten years before which had protected employers ' associations from conspiracy on the ground that the acts had been done ‘ with the lawful object of protecting and extending their trade and increasing their profits ’ without employing unlawful means , although the consequence had been to injure their competitors . |
| 29 | The word ‘ mithra ’ was also used to describe a friend , and this god was thought to be a true friend of man , protecting and warming him in life and death . |
| 30 | As well as the traditional function of protecting and furthering their members ' interests , they are also expected to play a role in the country 's development effort towards economic growth . |