Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already touched on the question of mixed artificial and daylighting in an earlier chapter . |
| 2 | The mouse-pounce involves hiding , crouching , creeping forward , and then rushing and pouncing on an imaginary rodent , usually its mother 's twitching tail or a small object lying on the ground . |
| 3 | Lots of listening to music and singing from an early age always helps , ’ she says . |
| 4 | whether , conceptually , it would be helpful to try regarding the house as an extension of the car , rather than the other way about , and experimenting with an internal trim based upon black simulated leather , with built-in ashtrays ; |
| 5 | PETER Sumner , 19 , was convicted of causing death by reckless driving after losing control on a bend and colliding with an oncoming car . |
| 6 | The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space . |
| 7 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
| 8 | All the signs are that somewhere there is a warehouse full of unwanted red-blue 3D specs , going cheap and looking for an alternative use . |
| 9 | During 1860–2 he had found his title and ideas for some of the leading incidents , including the story of a young man feigning death and living with an assumed identity , but was unable to set himself to the writing until the autumn of 1863 , when he determined not to begin publication until he had 5 numbers in hand , since he was now writing so slowly , with care and with difficulty . |
| 10 | Pop music had temporarily forgotten its role of addressing a young audience about its own concerns , and instead entered one of its periodic fits of mawkishness and middle-aged retrenchment , personified in the superstar of the moment — a gargantuan , bearded figure , shrouded in kaftans , precariously balanced on tiny slippers and warbling in an implausible soprano . |
| 11 | While dozing he had dreamed , and in the dream he had seen Buddie brandishing his long-bladed knife and passing like an avenging angel through crowds of jostling raucous birds in the turkey-pen . |
| 12 | Durkheim recognized that in modern societies social solidarity was no longer based on widely shared social values and that government and law had important functions to perform in organizing the ‘ collective conscience ’ of the new order and acting as an integrative mechanism respectively . |
| 13 | Nutty arrived on time , thudding out of the dusk and pulling to an abrupt halt . |
| 14 | With the introduction of National Vocational Qualifications , people undertaking training in the industry will have to become accustomed to new programmes of training and assessment , new City and Guilds numbers and new methods of assessment and testing as an essential part of their career pattern . |
| 15 | And kicking against an impersonal organisation was more fun and less threatening than confronting the old man directly . |
| 16 | Presenting a good size three bedroomed semi detached property situated in this convenient location , close to all local amenities and benefiting from an own drive to garage at the side . |
| 17 | An emergency Arab League summit , finally held in Cairo on Aug. 10 to discuss the Iraqi invasion , passed a seven-point resolution denouncing the " Iraqi aggression against " and annexation of Kuwait , and calling for an immediate withdrawal and the deployment of " Arab forces " to help Saudi Arabia and other states defend against " foreign aggression " . |
| 18 | In Spain González expressed his concern in a letter to Bush , suggesting that allied aerial bombardment of Baghdad and other cities should be halted , and calling for an international inquiry by the UN and the ICRC into the incident . |
| 19 | Smoking has been found to be an important factor , increasing this loss of bone density and resulting in an increased risk of osteoporosis [ 13 ] . |
| 20 | In his affidavit , dated 27 September , Kahn alleges that ‘ remaining Velcro minority shareholders will be faced with the unpleasant choice of receiving either a grossly unfair cashout price of $21.75 per share based upon artificially depressed market prices , or equity in VRNV , a company which will not be traded on NASDAQ or any other stock exchange requiring the necessity for public filings and resulting in an illiquid market ’ . |
| 21 | Always wash this rice thoroughly in a sieve under running water otherwise you will get a scum on the water in the pan , causing the rice to boil over on the hob and resulting in an unpleasant appearance when the grains are cooked . |
| 22 | Returning to Fig. 9–3(a) and moving to an equal distribution and from and the loss of utility has been established as trapezoid 3456 . |
| 23 | Starting from Belfast and moving in an anti-clockwise direction , he completed the trip in a month . |
| 24 | Rescued from his plane by French firstline troops , he was found by Chapman in a squalid French hospital , burning with fever and suffering from an appalling thirst . |
| 25 | The record ran itself out and they flopped down gasping and panting like an obscene phone call . |
| 26 | How the Scottish paragliders imagined this sport would adapt to the arctic , savage , gale-torn mountains of home is anybody 's guess , but they appear to be quite happy flapping around in the rain before plummeting out of the sky like Icarus and skidding to an inelegant halt face first in small lochans . |
| 27 | Towering head and shoulders above the Customs officer , who stood aside to let him pass , the man strode in , his face as dark and threatening as an impending storm . |
| 28 | He says there is a Sun-based banking network linking St Petersburg , Tumin and Moscow up and running with an electronic fund transfer link to the US , 40 Sparcstations at the Dubna Joint Institute for Research and a dozen running Computervision Corp CAD/CAM software down in Taginrog at an engineering firm whose name in English means Red Boilermaker . |
| 29 | He says there is a Sun-based banking network linking St Petersburg , Tumin and Moscow up and running with an electronic fund transfer link to the US , 40 Sparcstations at the Dubna Joint Institute for Research and a dozen running ComputerVision CAD/CAM software down in Taginrog at an engineering firm whose name in English means Red Boilermaker . |
| 30 | On the way back , the patrol drove for several miles along the coast road , destroying another fuel-tanker in the process and roaring through an Italian ambush with guns blazing . |