Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cranston leaned over the table , placing his hands over those of Fitzosbert and pressing down hard until the keeper 's face paled and beads of sweat broke out on his brow . |
| 2 | There is a clear sense of recession , with paler tones dominating at the top of the canvas and appearing further away than the more densely coloured foreground . |
| 3 | To stand on this dusky wharf , bruised by a drum of creosote , and acting not even as the convent chaplain , but as some kind of school attendance officer ! |
| 4 | Always in the leading group , McMahon pushed to the front before the last where he was challenged by the favourite Over the Edge , but keeping his mount perfectly balanced and running as straight as a gun barrel , McMahon found something left in the ‘ Tank ’ and went on to score a snug success . |
| 5 | And perhaps it was just as well because there , on the seat of the rag cart and sitting as patiently as the pony was standing , was Ben . |
| 6 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |