Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overtaking the car in front when it is not safe to do so and then cutting in front . |
| 2 | The overture finishes to applause , the curtains open , thunder rumbles and lightning flashes to reveal me , arms raised skyward and apparently floating in midair , as a huge mirror silently descends and I speak the first lines : |
| 3 | In the indictment Bunyan was accused , among other things , of ‘ devilishly and perniciously abstaining from coming to Church to hear Divine Service ’ . |
| 4 | Despite the contempt expressed in the past for the American principle of ‘ publish or perish ’ , British universities are more and more looking at volume of publication — otherwise , ‘ performance indicators ’ — as a sign of virtue . |
| 5 | When things go wrong , liability is more and more falling on company directors , with their own personal wealth at stake when they get sued , Neil Fitzgerald reports . |
| 6 | He was acting out of character leaving home and not getting in touch . |
| 7 | quite happily and enjoying himself thoroughly and not going to school , which I think are are three excellent things . |
| 8 | Andrewes would prepare these with great care , revising each three times , for , says Buckeridge , ‘ he ever misliked often and loose preaching without study of antiquity ’ . |
| 9 | He was tearing Germany apart and already preparing for war , the Jews being his first victims . |