Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [v-ing] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 2 | Driven mad with grief by the loss of her child , she is thought to wander the streets weeping and crying out a ghostly memory of the pre-Conquest past . |
| 3 | The military visitors saw a prisoner in top boots , oilskin and sou'wester angling and pulling out a dripping clog . |
| 4 | ‘ What I would n't agree with is someone coming over here to play and picking up a cheap cap . |
| 5 | Now we were rumbling and petarding up a steep brown-earth road with long , high convent walls on each side , towards a little square with a few dimly lit small shops and pollarded trees like headless ostriches perched on one knobbly leg . |
| 6 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 7 | But in the middle of this beautiful room , Isabella and Edgar Linton were screaming and fighting over a little dog ! |
| 8 | With the toe of his shoe he kicked a loose pebble on the path , sending it spinning and ricocheting over a nearby flowerbed . |