Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise was a foul but apt accompaniment to the schooner 's fitful motion for , with her wheel lashed and her sails only half trimmed , Wavebreaker was bridling and jerking into the short hard seas that were driving through the North-East Providence Channel . |
| 2 | It would , if implemented , " have dragged British government kicking and screaming into the 1950s " and limited the role of public management to the " programmed implementation of predetermined policies " ( Metcalfe and Richards 1987a ) . |
| 3 | I still shudder at the memory of the only previous production I 've seen , which attempted to drag this 18th-century masterpiece kicking and screaming into the 20th century with the help of rap and reggae music and rewritten dialogue that sounded like a rejected Minder script . |
| 4 | At the far end of the beach a dozen kids were running and splashing into the blue water without a care in the world . |
| 5 | The chances are you wo n't sleep much though , because Monday is the big market day in Cavaillon and soon after midnight the carts and lorries and vans of the big fruit farmers ' co-operatives , of the market gardeners , of the tomato and garlic and onion growers , will start rattling and roaring and rumbling into the great open market in the place du Clos . |
| 6 | Pay good attention and show that you are listening by nodding and looking into the other person 's eyes , but not staring . |
| 7 | There was no reply , Mait simply standing and staring into the mirrored lens . |
| 8 | Then he lay there gasping and looking into the unreadable eyes of Isay . |