Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , with one small rock fall following another , the flow continues to advance , very slowly , clanking and rattling forward like a shuffling slag heap . |
| 2 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 3 | Films with high or low accident estimates thus additionally included instances of passing a vehicle on a motorway and driving ahead along a curving road . |
| 4 | and looking forward to a new year . |
| 5 | Most of these seemingly alert young men , acting as sentries for their sleeping comrades , are soaked to the skin and looking forward to a little sleep themselves before the final push against the enemy . |
| 6 | The band , forced to play covers of Beatles songs and American country music ( the staple diet of Rhodesian radio ) , immediately switched to traditional African songs written specifically about celebrating freedom and living together in a new country . |
| 7 | He was tall and thin , a leggy lightweight in a dark-grey suit , with a pleasant , long , cleanshaven face , and short hair greying at the temples and receding slightly from a weathered brown forehead . |
| 8 | The gulls were in good voice , however , soaring and shrieking overhead in a fickle , shifting breeze , and Harry was surprised how contented if not downright happy he felt , sitting in the shelter nearest the clock and gazing out at the white horses in the bay . |
| 9 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 10 | After all , he was the chief scientist on board the boat , it was his $250,000 paying for this month-long expedition ( this research vessel cost $7000 a day to run ) , and he was getting a little nervous out there , all by himself , getting colder by the second and drifting away on a little piece of ice . |
| 11 | The earlier trials suggest a characteristic of the following kind for a uniform ( card ) subject : — first a region in which all material is imperfectly seen , then a roughly linear region in which spreading takes place , then a gradual transition to flooding , seen as a super-linear increase in visible pixels with exposure and resulting finally in a complete whiteout , unless the illumination is too low . |
| 12 | The cloud was thick and low and moving slowly on a damp , chilling wind , a lidding expanse hiding the sky and the snow on the distant hills . |
| 13 | The policy they have prepared is said to involve liberalising prices , freeing trade , selling state companies , smashing monopolies and moving rapidly towards a convertible rouble . |
| 14 | He was then in his middle thirties , about ten years her senior , and doing well in a small way as a building contractor in New York and New Jersey . |
| 15 | A gearbox can be identified as providing a means of handling the power of an engine and doing so in a useful form to an output shaft . |
| 16 | Building the ark was n't a matter of nipping to the DIY shop and coming home with a few boxes labelled ‘ Flatpack ark ’ . |
| 17 | But the noise and the traffic and the petrol fumes and the stress of getting around — occasionally I feel like just selling up , giving my designer-clothes to Oxfam , and starting again in a simple dress of dimity ’ |
| 18 | Both handled conditions well , Andrew 's Minstrel pulling eight lengths clear of Thuhool and Stirrup Cup making all and jumping well for a 20 lengths win over market rival Kingfisher Bay . |
| 19 | Trains will have a power car at both ends , each capable of starting the train on a maximum gradient of 1 in 40 and accelerating rapidly to a maximum operating speed of 300kph . |
| 20 | In the beginning Dungeness is conceived to have been a simple spit springing from the coast in the vicinity of Fairlight ( A on Fig. 8.31 ) and extending eastwards across a broad bay now occupied by Romney Marsh . |
| 21 | There is something beautifully simple and old fashioned about the whole family working and playing together on a warm afternoon beside a clean , bubbling stream . |
| 22 | Walking through her kitchen and cutting gardens at break-neck speed , marvelling at the weedless beds , and pyramids of purple clematis , the imposing topiary ( ‘ Russell [ Page ] used to tell me , ‘ Let them get fluffy and fabulous ’ ’ ) , Mrs Guest is in full flood : ‘ Oh , those chipmunks are wrecking my garden , ’ she declares , straightening a single toppled plant in an acreage of formidable order , and tugging nimbly at a lone weed . |
| 23 | The family has become a more isolated unit , relatively separate from wider sets of kin , and functioning chiefly as a conjugal or nuclear unit . |
| 24 | Lush Life is your perennial lost soul — an individual living on the marginal precipice of society and veering quickly towards a grim finale . |
| 25 | It should be noted that the etch-resist is sensitive to ultraviolet light only , and processing indoors in a subdued light should not cause any problems . |