Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [art] " 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 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | To accompany the cross assembler a linker will perform the usual task of allocating addresses to the assembled code modules and attaching the run-time libraries to generate an executable program . |
| 6 | The final events that lead our dieter to break the diet are quite concrete , namely , walking into a café , seeing and smelling the pastries , and seeing other people happily enjoying them . |
| 7 | They walked hand in hand through the warm summer dusk , their arms entwined , her head upon his shoulder , listening to the drowsy lullaby of ships ' hooters from the river , and smelling the scent of soft tar upon the roadway . |
| 8 | After leaving the sensation , visitors can spend their time touching and smelling the samples of hops , malt and barley stacked nearby , while a static display shows them how the ingredients are used in the brewing process , and a second display shows them the secret of the widget in the cans of Draught Guinness . |
| 9 | Through their power of patronage , the King and the Lords were able to exert " influence " over the composition of the lower chamber so oiling the relations between the King and the representatives of the people and cementing the elements of the constitution into some kind of working whole . |
| 10 | Some of these mudflows rushed through Herculaneum and engulfed it completely ; crushing some buildings and smothering the rest twenty metres deep in a slowly consolidating welter of mud , pumice , boulders and debris . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Begin by stitching the longer length on the left hand side , bringing it under Teddy 's chin and tucking the shorter length under it as it crosses his shoulder . |
| 13 | Use to cover the top rounded side of the mixing bowl cake , leaving the cut free and tucking the edges underneath . |
| 14 | Then , still smiling and holding her confused startled gaze , he brushed her cheek softly with the head of the flower , almost as though he was bestowing a caress , before leaning forward and tucking the stem behind her ear . |
| 15 | Commentators are fond of discovering and praising a guidebook clarity in the novel . |
| 16 | On the speakers , Kim Carnes was feeling it in the air and praising the Universal Song . |
| 17 | He wrote to the county council recommending the couple and praising the care of residents in their privately run home . |
| 18 | They are also extremely vocal , calling and bellowing a good deal of the time . |
| 19 | It concerns an executive who passed a mental hospital on his way to work and stopped occasionally to watch an inmate going through the motions of winding up and pitching an imaginary ball . |
| 20 | They created this distressed finish by marking and denting the guitar all over with a tool which gave the instrument a used/vintage appearance . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I got off the Air India jet spitting betel nut and nursing a swollen hand . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The private work she has undertaken in bereavement counselling and nursing the terminally ill has given her intense fulfilment . |
| 25 | The Duke had a passion for practical jokes-wetting people with hoses and putting itching powder in their beds — and he was a devoted animal lover , always surrounded by dogs and preferring the ugliest because no-one else would be kind to it . |
| 26 | The new country rejected the new name Azania on the grounds that it had slave origins — and preferring the sense that it was a vital part of the continent as a whole . |
| 27 | Archaeologists , anthropologists and psychologists are all guilty of shovelling up a multitude of references to the feminine and labelling the heap as the ‘ Great Mother ’ . |
| 28 | British Coal chairman Neil Clarke has stated publicly that the industry 's future depends on securing advantageous terms and stemming the ‘ dash for gas ’ by the generators . |
| 29 | At the same time the government announced a package of new measures under which ( i ) the minimum wage was increased by 18 per cent from Nov. 18 ; ( ii ) a 40 per cent cut in income tax for those earning up to four times the minimum wage was to take effect in 1991 ; ( iii ) petrol prices were increased by 20 per cent and diesel oil , liquid gas and electricity prices by 30 per cent ; ( iv ) the peso 's rate of progressive devaluation against the US dollar was halved from 80 centavos to an " average " of 40 centavos a day , a depreciation rate of 5 per cent per year , as part of a anti-inflationary move aimed at fixing a future parity for the two currencies and stemming the flight of capital abroad . |
| 30 | 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 . |