Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's ha , she 's been sneezing and got runny nose have n't you ? |
| 2 | They are laughing and chasing each other . |
| 3 | If you need a modem to link into say Compuserve and pick up and collect messages this modem is ideal — if you are uploading and downloading big files over long distances you need a quicker modem . |
| 4 | I 've been listening and watching all day . |
| 5 | ‘ It is appalling that we are aiding and abetting this kind of cruelty . |
| 6 | A great day out for all the family , the Centre for Alternative Technology is a living and working community which has been promoting and displaying sustainable technologies for more than 16 years . |
| 7 | When you 're fighting and hating each other anyway , it must be nice for the chick when she turns out to have the law batting for her . |
| 8 | I am now considering planting another small group in one of the paddocks and have chosen a group of native hawthorn which are quickgrowing and suit any soil or position and can be trained as standard trees . |
| 9 | Annie Griffin came to Britain from New York in 1980 as a student and since 1986 has been devising and performing original work for the theatre . |
| 10 | Then he extracted the cassette , hauling out the length of tape which had been recording and stuffed both items in his jacket pocket . |
| 11 | They 've been coming and going all day . ’ |
| 12 | Back in June ( UX No 387 ) , Hewlett-Packard Co was dropping large hints that it would be announcing and delivering new Snake workstations and upgrades based upon its next-generation PA RISC 7110 chip , Thunderbird , sometime before its fiscal year ends in October . |
| 13 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |
| 14 | Sixteen-year-old Scott , from a London theatre school , will be dancing and singing this message : |
| 15 | Doctors seemed to be coming and going all morning , so it was n't until she was sent to coffee that Juliet had time to think of her mother . |
| 16 | So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse . |
| 17 | But in any case , it would make sense , given that the grey whale population has been increasing steadily overall , for whales to be exploring and utilising more areas . ’ |
| 18 | Conversely , where the futures markets are used purely for hedging purposes or by sophisticated investors who are able to assess the risks they are taking and to integrate those risks into an overall investment strategy , there is less need for stringent regulation . |
| 19 | More juniors are playing and having more success . |
| 20 | However , while Troilus is fantasizing about Cressida 's bed , men are fighting and killing each other on the field outside Troy . |
| 21 | We 've been admitting and transferring all day . |
| 22 | The two groups have been kidnapping and killing each other 's followers . |
| 23 | Mr Dinkins expressed an envy of Tokyo 's cleanliness and low crime rate , but said conditions in his city were improving and urged Japanese companies not to pull out their investments . |
| 24 | They 're sense of self is such that they do n't see that they have a self to assert , perhaps , or that they are not valid enough as a person , which obviously must stem erm from their early childhood experiences , and from the adults that surrounded them when they were growing and developing that sense of who they are . |
| 25 | All around , men were embracing and wishing each other ‘ Id Mubarak . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After two months , Joy 's enjoyment of tricking the customers was decreasing , there was still no difference and the customers were just as rude or getting even worse , for more ‘ skinnys ’ were arriving and ordering more food . |
| 28 | Wilkie discussed the Camargue with M. Grimaud , whose cousin had a domaine there , asked Monique and Marie-Claire politely what they were studying and elicited more information in half-an-hour than Frederica had done in several months . |
| 29 | Single people living in a house on their own paid as high a rate bill as a family of four , all of whom were earning and using local services . |
| 30 | … But while we were discussing and elaborating these problems from every conceivable angle , developments in Europe passed us by . ’ |