Example sentences of "and [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a medium tension and hanging a weight on the scarf as it is being knitted will make it curl more easily . |
| 2 | Creating this elegant , opulent bedhead is as simple as making curtains and hanging a rack . |
| 3 | Then he allows for the effects of a ‘ propagation mechanism ’ ( see section 5.1(a) ) by adding the lagged value of to equation ( 6.2 ) and attaching a positive coefficient to it , giving : |
| 4 | Nevertheless , visiting the Company was an important occasion in Mary O'Dell 's calendar ; when her husband was the landlord , she always fussed over him beforehand , ironing his best shirt , starching the collar , sponging his blue serge suit and tucking a clean handkerchief into his top pocket . |
| 5 | Commentators are fond of discovering and praising a guidebook clarity in the novel . |
| 6 | They are also extremely vocal , calling and bellowing a good deal of the time . |
| 7 | During the 1930s the world had seen considerable political and military changes , already the dictators of Europe were making territorial gains , and the Japanese also had designs on mainland Asia , invading Manchuria and waging a savage war on China . |
| 8 | I got off the Air India jet spitting betel nut and nursing a swollen hand . |
| 9 | Bunny saw me and gave me a brief nod , then went back to talking to a young black dude wearing a blue trenchcoat and nursing a colour-co-ordinated Filofax . |
| 10 | Before this happened we had one last day in Lincoln , celebrating his release by buying and eating a 4lb punnet of delicious strawberries from the market . |
| 11 | To take a typical example : you are at the zoo , and have just recorded a very nice shot of a chimpanzee peeling and eating a banana . |
| 12 | You can effectively fend off the unsightly fatty areas known as cellulite , or ‘ orange-peel ’ skin by stimulating a healthy blood flow , taking regular exercise , and eating a sensible diet . |
| 13 | Yet here was her grandson fending for himself , leaning amiably against a kitchen cupboard and eating a self-made sandwich , while his mother gave infinite attention to food for women who should have been at home attending to their own children . |
| 14 | We passed the waking time playing Articulate and eating a picnic meal before turning the seats into layers of beds — a complex procedure when there are six people and sets of luggage , but not impossible . |
| 15 | Until they improve and can manage without it , patients find that with neutralisation they stay well , living a less restricted lifestyle and eating a wider diet than without it . |
| 16 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 17 | While they waited in the room , which was furnished like a nursing home , with the child reading a comic on the bed and eating a bag of shortbread biscuits , she thought that it was as well to be next door to the railway station in case she had to get away quickly . |
| 18 | A girl in a duffel coat and jeans was taking an early lunch in the corner , reading a magazine and eating a sandwich from an open plastic container on the seat beside her . |
| 19 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 20 | The Lord Llewellyn , sitting beneath a brocade canopy and eating a bowl of figs , eyed the pageant with a mixture of amusement and contempt . |
| 21 | Lisabeth was sitting apart from them reading a newspaper and eating a bar of chocolate . |
| 22 | Pupils may become medieval monks ( or nuns ) in a monastery , listening to an address by the abbot , taking part in worship , acting as medieval scribes , or doing more mundane tasks such as gardening or preparing food and eating a medieval meal . |
| 23 | If you seriously wish to lose your weight then it is most sensible to do it by looking carefully at your diet and eating a good balance of carbohydrates and protein with a reduced fat content . |
| 24 | The government 's strategy increasingly appears to be one not of reducing expenditure but of containing the rise in costs , targeting benefits on the most needy , and encouraging a redistribution of the burden to the private sector . |
| 25 | The Guardian can now declare : ‘ No successful capitalist economy has been developed without the state sponsoring an entrepreneurial class , designing and encouraging a network of supportive institutions and actively intervening in the management of the economy . ’ |
| 26 | After casting on and knitting a few rows , you just need a couple of minutes from time to time to go back to the machine and change the punchcard or pattern number . |
| 27 | Ella Burrows , ever the angel of mercy , organised the girls Into baking tins of biscuits and cakes , and knitting a constant supply of jumpers and balaclavas for the menfolk . |
| 28 | Did people think it was strange you working and helping a butcher ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why did n't you do something ? ’ she charged , walking towards him and halting a foot away . |
| 30 | Energetic and many-sided , Hunt edited or sub-edited several popular magazines and journals , including the Quiver ( 1865–1905 ) and Cassell 's Magazine ( 1874–96 ) , besides founding and editing a children 's paper , Little Folks , until 1876 . |