Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The sun beating down on them and the children splashing and laughing in the shallow end . |
| 32 | There is an elaborate system of inspecting and reporting at the local level , and monitoring at the national level by the Council for the Care of Churches , and at diocesan level by Diocesan Advisory Committees . |
| 33 | As part of Stone Grove , a four-piece band who have spent the last two years quietly writing and recording in the relative obscurity of Clapton , east London , Simon has been revising , reassessing , investigating his roots , or in his own words , ‘ taking notes ’ . |
| 34 | He unhitched his mare , and led her warily down the slope to the Goldbach stream , stumbling and shivering in the raw morning air . |
| 35 | The van had taken the exit into the hotel 's rear yard , lurching and swinging towards the open gate that led to Crofton Street . |
| 36 | Hurriedly showering and pulling on the same pair of jeans she had worn the day she 'd arrived , she jerked a baggy sweater over her head and went downstairs . |
| 37 | If deep love exists and that loving is complete , then this blend and harmony can be brought about by all forms of physical closeness — from touching and holding to the complete sexual act . |
| 38 | It 's sludging and scaling at the same time . |
| 39 | It is significant that Maltwood was a sculptor , since one of the skills of a sculptor is to be able to use natural form to create a vivid and living piece of art , using and flowing with the natural lines . |
| 40 | and hooing and cooing and sidling through the front teeth , |
| 41 | By tactfully praising and criticizing at the same time , he had pupils flocking into the school , eager to train , rightly believing he had special abilities in this sphere . |
| 42 | In the early Liverpool days of Big Flame the comrades had been obsessed with the potential of Ford workers as leaders of the British revolution , and had put great effort into organizing and recruiting at the local Halewood plant . |
| 43 | For a while I felt I was in heaven , eating and drinking in the warm , pretty room , with kind Miss Temple and Helen . |
| 44 | The Land Rover was pitching and rolling over the southern brow like a small seagoing craft . |
| 45 | Plate tectonics appears to be the device , unexplained in Wegener 's day , that permits the continents to drift : it is a process whereby the rigid , relatively cool plates that cover the earth 's hot and partially plastic asthenosphere , forty miles down , shift slowly about , colliding and separating from the other plates by turn . |
| 46 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
| 47 | Andy recovered quickly , sucking on the oxygen , coughing and spluttering in the warm bath , then being dried and taken to a warmed bed and watched over by his parents . |
| 48 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 49 | Not that he was playing any flash lead parts but to keep a strong rhythm part going and sing at the same time is rather like having to twiddle both your thumbs in opposite directions at the same time . |
| 50 | About 60 per cent ignored accusations of womanising and voted for the 46-year-old governor of Arkansas , giving him a landslide win over President Bush . |
| 51 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 52 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 53 | As we spent hour after hour sitting at our work-table , all curtains drawn to intensify our concentration beneath the old-fashioned fringed standard lamp , he would from time to time ease his buttocks and balls , pulling and tugging on the firm seams of the taut , well-worn jeans or the well-rubbed brown needle cords , scratching and stroking himself idly , as if unselfconsciously in the most private places with those delicate fingers with the bitten nails and his big , warm palms . |
| 54 | His rescuer was smiling , pulling and pointing at the tartan plaid that had protected the young Highlander in his wanderings across eastern Europe . |
| 55 | Their small nomadic populations , growing and subdividing during the good years , were periodically culled by cold and starvation . |
| 56 | John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like . |
| 57 | We 'll be talking motor racing and talking to the new Eddy Jordan Formula One team . |
| 58 | She 's had a hectic Christmas — one long round of shopping , cleaning and cooking for the entire family , including Malc 's brother and his wife and his mother , who has become confused and forgetful since Dad 's death and Lynda has taken care of her with selfless dedication . |
| 59 | The former eco-terrorists , feared for their readiness to ambush government whenever it marched into the green province , had suddenly become people worth informing and consulting at the highest level . |
| 60 | The river was carpeted with them , turning and dipping in the fast-flowing waters as they swept towards the Chickamaw Weir and Sharpsburg Corners . |