Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are laughing and chasing each other . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It is appalling that we are aiding and abetting this kind of cruelty . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | More juniors are playing and having more success . |
| 9 | However , while Troilus is fantasizing about Cressida 's bed , men are fighting and killing each other on the field outside Troy . |
| 10 | What Greenfield and others are privileging and providing ideological support for is , in fact , their own academic establishment , their own work practice within it , their own values and rules . |