Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turns the water to steam and frees the light inside her , twisting and turning in a sparkling , spinning column . |
| 2 | It circled me now , yowling and screaming in a noxious way . |
| 3 | You should be an experienced dinghy sailor ( regularly sails with inexperienced crews ) who has also spend at least six days living and sailing in a small sailing cruiser . |
| 4 | The attitudes towards parenthood and parenting of people living and working in a multi-ethnic community are explored . |
| 5 | Probing , listening and reacting in a constructive , professional , nonjudgemental manner . |
| 6 | He began shouting and screaming in a total panic . |
| 7 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 8 | Loulou charged up to each new arrival , thumping and hugging in a demonstrative greeting . |
| 9 | Operates with authority , directing and ordering in a well-defined manner . |
| 10 | Other musical diversions include conducting , leading and playing in a large number of amateur and semi-professional orchestras/chamber ensembles and writing 200+ sleeve notes for major classical record labels , . |
| 11 | When the salient vicinity includes another moving object , particularly a flying insect twisting and turning and diving in a desperate attempt to shake off its pursuer , the extra benefit to the bat of increasing its sample rate more than justifies the increased cost . |
| 12 | So keep out of arguments with other canines , stop your grousing and growling and behave in a mature manner . |
| 13 | An adaptation is a modification of the genome resulting in structures , functions or behaviour patterns that increase the probability of an organism surviving and reproducing in a particular environment . |
| 14 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 15 | Some rumours , he says , have survived for centuries , merely by mutating and reappearing in a different guise . |
| 16 | Clare was nodding and smiling in a half amused , half indulgent manner . |
| 17 | Its accomplishment is as much pictorial as musical , its images dissolving and recombining in a strange and haunting manner , In the piece there is no narrative and the character of Einstein appears playing the violin ( one of the physicist 's hobbies ) . |
| 18 | Donald Stewart was talking and working in a steady frenzy . |
| 19 | As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life . |
| 20 | Henry the bunny keeps disappearing and reappearing in a top hat , paper flowers blossom from a seemingly empty vase and handkerchiefs change colour to the call of Abracadabra . |