Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A month later he struck in a suburb of Milton Keynes — loosing control of a Ford Granada and crashing into a fence and a parked car . |
| 2 | Because of the extra buffers this salt does not claim to be the fastest dissolving around , and aerating for an hour after mixing may improve results . |
| 3 | Hairy Back was smoking his pipe and laughing with a neighbour as he stood at his gate . |
| 4 | Far from letting go , he wrestled like a mad thing , kicking out with his boots and laughing like a maniac when the branch flicked across her throat and drew blood . |
| 5 | Mansell admitted drink-driving , two charges of driving with defective tyres and driving on a motorway while a provisional licence holder . |
| 6 | Cook admitted stealing the bus from Kelvin Central Bus depot in Kirkintilloch on 20 March last year and driving without a licence or insurance . |
| 7 | It can be released through physical action such as sawing logs , by stamping one 's foot onto the accelerator and driving like a maniac or simply by smashing a plate . |
| 8 | However the gem is surely the Third Ballade with the opening pages played as if improvised on the spot , the figuration commencing at 3′34″ foaming and cascading with a freedom and liberality unknown to most players . |
| 9 | There he found Ann sweeping dirt out of the front door into the street , and inside , Sam Gristy , who was holding Martha 's hand and looking like a cat that 's stolen the clotted cream . |
| 10 | Which meant sorting out wheat from chaff , and living like a rajah while he did so . |
| 11 | And his eyes — piercing , vividly blue , and glittering with a light that she was yet too young to understand , but which called to something very feminine within her . |
| 12 | A Heron adviser said yesterday the asset protection measures had been put in place to prevent somebody ‘ charging in and acting in a way that does n't benefit all creditors ’ . |
| 13 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 14 | Later excavation under the direction of Dr. Euan MacKie found that the work of building the circle was never completed and owing to a miscalculation or perhaps an unfavourable omen , was abandoned . |
| 15 | Something interesting happened to me that I never really thought about , erm , but I used to get these dreams where I used to dream that I 'd be either falling off a cliff or driving a car and getting into an accident and like or driving off a cliff . |
| 16 | And getting in a tiss and shouting wo n't make it go away . |
| 17 | Most foliage houseplants need a period of rest in mid winter , so keep feeding and watering to a minimum until new growth starts in the spring . |
| 18 | Some 95 per cent of mail order transactions involve credit , and buying from a tallyman or doorstep credit trader virtually by definition means buying on weekly instalments . |
| 19 | In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz . |
| 20 | FIRST NIGHT Planning the huge Billy Graham Crusades of the sixties and seventies meant starting from scratch and moving into a city or country six to eighteen months ahead . |
| 21 | But those cracks were somehow alive and moving with a pulsing and fractured blue-white light as they looked . |
| 22 | She remembered making the right sounds and moving like a puppet as the party began . |
| 23 | Precious little chance of that happening , thought Hugh , listening and observing with a pleasure that recalled to mind some of his earliest and most tentative exchanges with Brother Cadfael , dealing trick for trick and dart for dart , and feeling their way over small battlefields to a lasting friendship . |
| 24 | Working the 12 step Programme is not an end in itself but the method by which the sufferer is transformed from negativity to positively , from sickness to health and from a life of belligerence and blaming to a life that focuses upon creativity and an attitude of gratitude . |
| 25 | Since there are a variety of right answers it may be an idea for the group to decide collectively on each step with the instructor guiding the process and recording on a blackboard or overhead projector . |
| 26 | And staring at a scene that , at first sight , made the annals of ancient Rome look like a Sunday School picnic … |
| 27 | Aware 's Belfast support group has been up and running for a year and helps people cope with a range of depressive illnesses . |
| 28 | ‘ We are well down the track , and up and running as a forward-looking and fully structured body recognised as being a vital element in the ICI Group , ’ he says . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's what the whole thing about the Pete Cornish involvement for me , ’ continues Bryan , ‘ because I was sick of coming in and plugging into an amp and going , ‘ Oh , how do you get rid of that bloody hum ? ’ |
| 30 | Why do n't you stop ranting and raving for a minute and start being honest with yourself ? ’ |