Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 2 | Driven mad with grief by the loss of her child , she is thought to wander the streets weeping and crying out a ghostly memory of the pre-Conquest past . |
| 3 | The military visitors saw a prisoner in top boots , oilskin and sou'wester angling and pulling out a dripping clog . |
| 4 | He put down the pair of pliers he was holding and picked up a heavy adjustable spanner . |
| 5 | Now we were rumbling and petarding up a steep brown-earth road with long , high convent walls on each side , towards a little square with a few dimly lit small shops and pollarded trees like headless ostriches perched on one knobbly leg . |
| 6 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 7 | But in the middle of this beautiful room , Isabella and Edgar Linton were screaming and fighting over a little dog ! |
| 8 | Erm it 's a very , it 's always a good idea to do a plan , cos yeah , spend five minutes or so planning and jot down a rough plan and it might be that we would , we wo , we would normally ignore , ignore the plan when marking but if , you have n't finished a question and er , it 's a bit thin we might look at your plan to get some idea of what you would actually written |
| 9 | With the toe of his shoe he kicked a loose pebble on the path , sending it spinning and ricocheting over a nearby flowerbed . |
| 10 | She was working but had only a small salary and ‘ soon found that it would be impossible to care for John 's upbringing satisfactorily . |