Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its twin staircases and end steps , a Dreadnought was capable of loading and unloading simultaneously at a terminus . |
| 2 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 3 | It probably was n't bubbling and smoking away like a witch 's cauldron but I certainly remember it that way What was it ? |
| 4 | She would write her first reply in the bathroom , turning on the geyser to pretend she was having a bath and writing joyfully on a breadboard balanced on the small wooden basin ( they used a breadboard as a bathmat on the freezing floor , because he liked the genuineness of natural wood ) . |
| 5 | but Swindon are on their way … and looking forward to a home tie against Oldham Athletic from the premier league in round three … |
| 6 | I 'm missing you all very much and looking forward to a time of sharing and renewal with you in April . |
| 7 | In less than two hours he could be free , safe and looking forward to a future . |
| 8 | The new team will find financial markets in a high state of excitement and looking forward to a cut in interest rates . |
| 9 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh ! ’ he said , stopping the car and looking hurriedly at a map . |
| 11 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |
| 12 | And we 've been waiting and waiting and waiting now for a week to get this reconciliation at least together so that we could go out and re-count whatever was required . |
| 13 | Charles continued to live with her in Cambridge , commuting by car to Ipswich to teach his classes , and staying there for a night or two each week . |
| 14 | I felt that some of those on the bank waiting for the net to come in were wanting a body and wishing hard for a corpse . |
| 15 | He re-entered the domain of ploughed land , far off and spreading endlessly like a sea , with furrows instead of waves . |
| 16 | They heard him dialling and speaking tersely for a moment . |
| 17 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 18 | Charlton knows Ireland can afford one slip-up , but his side has every chance of upsetting the rhythm of the Spanish and coming away with a result . |
| 19 | A glastyn is rather like a BROWNIE , helping the farmer with chores and asking only for a bowl of cream and some bread at day 's end . |
| 20 | Between the parallel ranges lie a series of polja extending for over 640 km ( 400 miles ) and reaching inland in a belt 100 km ( 64 miles ) wide . |
| 21 | ‘ I was ten times worse myself and got over it on my feet , ’ he said in casual dismissal , opening his raincoat and reaching inside for a cigarette . |
| 22 | The coroner stood snatching mouthfuls of bread and gulping noisily from a goblet whilst he stared angrily at the fire . |
| 23 | At one point one of the subjects went berserk during a psychomotor tracking task , screaming in terror and pulling off his electrodes , falling to the floor and sobbing and muttering incoherently about a gorilla . |
| 24 | But there was Lovebite , my new victim , sitting there and thrumming gently like a dynamo . |
| 25 | While Fiona was still on her way the medics stuffed Harry full of antibiotics and other palliatives and put stitches where they were needed , and by the time she 'd wept briefly in my arms he was warm and responding nicely in a recovery room somewhere . |
| 26 | Chattering teeth and shaking even without a sense of coldness . |
| 27 | I think that the idea of erm you know , rushing in to a disaster , taking the aeroplane out , and , and seeing this enormous distress around one and sitting there with a notebook and a pencil is , is unacceptable and indeed we do n't do that at all . |
| 28 | We sat drinking and talking together for a while . |
| 29 | A Martian viewing our race might wonder at our lemming-like ability to self-destruct by gobbling up nasty foods , smoking little chimneys and falling sideways as a result of consuming quantities of amber liquid . |
| 30 | Ah want that riggin' fixed and workin' inside of a week . ’ |