Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 2 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 3 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 4 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 5 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 6 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 7 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
| 8 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 9 | Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot . |
| 10 | With Rex and Woodchip out of the picture and the forces of darkness set loose upon the land , how can we fail ? |
| 11 | Rose tells me he 's back and peacocking about as a vicar . ’ |
| 12 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 13 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 14 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 15 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 16 | She had packed and checked out of the hotel without seeing either of the two brothers or her cousin . |
| 17 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |
| 18 | The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion . |
| 19 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 20 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 22 | The animal has been surveyed and laid off like a map ; and the men have been classified in over thirty specialties and twenty rates of pay , from 16 cents to 50 cents an hour . |
| 23 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 24 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 25 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 26 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 27 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 28 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 29 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 30 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |