Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | write to manufacturers informing them of your choice and encouraging them to sell goods packaged in recyclable materials |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | contacting employers and encouraging them to use the ES to fill their vacancies ; |
| 7 | The Labour party is telling those investors that they are not welcome here and encouraging them to go elsewhere . |
| 8 | For one thing poor countries produce similar commodities , and encouraging them to increase their exports has flooded the market . |
| 9 | What is needed therefore is central government legislation requiring new owners to preserve existing access rights — and encouraging them to provide more . |
| 10 | A lead team of managers and trade union members oversees the whole programme but the emphasis is on involving employees and encouraging them to solve their own problems . |
| 11 | The way to change the situation is by harnessing staff expertise and encouraging them to become part of the process of customer service . ’ |
| 12 | There is all the difference in the world between encouraging people to feel good , and encouraging them to feel good about the situation . |
| 13 | Introducing young people to society and encouraging them to express themselves should not create conflict , as long as there is a co-operative understanding within the family or community . |
| 14 | It should be no more than an introductory aid , enabling the user to identify relevant sections of PPGs and MPGs , and encouraging him/her to delve more deeply . |
| 15 | It helped him to dance , but for me , to dance is a way of allowing and encouraging ourselves to escape through our fingertips , eyelids , lungs and tips of our tongues . |
| 16 | Dogmatics thus has a critical function in relation to the present witness and preaching of the church , recalling it to its basis and assisting it to uncover and hear what it is called to say today . |
| 17 | In order to talk about something that did not have to do with fondling and stroking she spoke of the garments . |
| 18 | Writers have frequently attributed to cross-national research the important advantage of throwing light on one 's own country and helping one to understand it better , undermining the ‘ in-bred prejudices or preconceived ideas ’ that attend a parochial approach ( e.g. Schregle 1981 : 28 ) . |
| 19 | The picture becomes almost a real person to the boy , replacing his dead grandmother and helping him to carry on when circumstances seem to be against him . |
| 20 | In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working . |
| 21 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 22 | These included being prepared to listen and acknowledge Tony 's difficulties , helping his father and girlfriend view them in a more understanding way , after allowing them to ventilate their feelings , clarifying the nature of Tony 's problems and helping him focus on those which he could do something about . |
| 23 | Anticipating his future power unit needs and helping him to achieve them is the key to tomorrow 's survival in OEM industries hard pressed by recession and overseas competition . |
| 24 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |
| 25 | On the one hand ( see page 31 ) reasoning with children , and helping them recognize others ' feelings , facilitates the development of conscience and resistance to temptation . |
| 26 | And the needs of people with learning difficulties and their carers , above all , can not be defined and prescribed independently of the process of encouraging and helping them to welcome opportunities and change . |
| 27 | And helping them to do it , ’ said Breeze zealously ; but Gay shook her head . |
| 28 | Encouraging women to first express and then try to ‘ let go ’ of their previously suppressed fears and anxieties — usually through visualisation techniques and helping them to attain very deep states of relaxation — can , she maintains , eventually eliminate phobias , depression , psycho-sexual and reproductive disorders , as well as more general tiredness and tension . |
| 29 | It is the skilled job of the social workers to help the foster parents cope by understanding their anxiety , explaining the child 's difficulties and helping them to get along together . |
| 30 | The " living history " sessions offered on site by the Education Officers at many museums and historic buildings can provide particularly rewarding experiences for this age group , stimulating the imagination , through sight , touch , smells , and so on , and helping them to experience " what it was like to live in the past " . |