Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [v-ing] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
| 2 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 3 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 4 | We will be working alongside the base staff , encouraging them and assisting them in their work with local churches , ministering to the homeless in Hyderabad and working among a gypsy group in the country . |
| 5 | Mrs Bennet and Jinny took charge of the two women and two small girls , making tea for them and wrapping them in blankets . |
| 6 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I can easily go back to normal , ’ Maggie got out quickly but he reached out and captured her hand , spinning her towards him and catching her in his arms . |
| 8 | ‘ Mummy , I want Mummy , ’ hitting him and butting him in the stomach with her head , like a little goat . |
| 9 | Anpetuwi , where he had come with his hurt and confusion , and Anpetuwi , which had not disappointed him , taking him and holding him in its gentle heart as a mother held a child . |
| 10 | The plaintiff then instituted proceedings against the defendants claiming damages for their breach of duty in failing to disclose material information to him and placing themselves in a position where their duties and interests conflicted . |
| 11 | Resorting to a dog-like whine , he complained to Theo : ‘ The dog feels that if they keep him , it will only mean putting up with him and tolerating him in the house , so he will try and find another kennel . ’ |
| 12 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 13 | The Profitboss devotes time and effort to this , taking his team away periodically to discuss their vision of excellence , clarifying it , refining it and defining it in terms of the best standards , the best contribution , the best performance . |
| 14 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 15 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 16 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 17 | the gathering up of all this scattered craft knowledge , systematising it and concentrating it in the hands of the employer and then doling it out again only in the form of minute instructions , giving to each worker only the knowledge needed for the performance of a particular relatively minute task . |
| 18 | The Founders were to be the guardians of the purity of the paper , protecting it and keeping it in touch with the grass roots which they represented . |
| 19 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 20 | He reached out and tugged her into the V of his thighs , dropping his mouth to hers and taking it in a kiss that left her gasping for breath and so shaken she could barely stand . |
| 21 | For its size it was heavy , and she nearly dropped it , Lucenzo 's hands quickly sweeping beneath hers and supporting them in a lightning reflex . |