Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Disgust shivered through her , and stepping out of the reach of his hands she hissed , ‘ Get out of my house , you mucky little sod !
2 They wheel about the sky , fading and crystallizing out of the air to the horror of their victims , striking fear into their hearts with their piercing cries .
3 In any case most of the time required will be taken up at the beginning , in the planning and drawing out of the plan on paper , in choosing the plants , and in soil preparation and planting .
4 I started to run up , straight up the hill , erm lucky the monster was running straight at me and sticking out of the crowd and he tripped over and after the end
5 She was always crying and storming out of the classroom .
6 I remember Trevor [ Howard ] just standing up and looking at him , mouthing a bad word and walking out of the room .
7 The drivers had the hardest job , concentrating on holding their positions and keeping out of the way of the front and rear gunners .
8 Furthermore , Piper , I wo n't be in this trench tonight , ’ continued Taff , rising to his feet and climbing out of the trench .
9 A lot of erm them , cos erm we 're up , we 're in the upper sort of thing , we 're in the upstairs in a form room , so when we walk downstairs to erm down to a lesson they come barging up there and pushing out of the way !
10 Luke said , going scarlet and looking out of the window , ‘ I wondered if , I mean , do you need , I mean , would you have any job you could give me ?
11 Then she was aware of someone staring at her and looking out of the corner of her eyes she saw it was Carmella .
12 What it might be found to share with the first is a simultaneous avoidance and acting out of the ambivalence which constitutes subordination , and a pushing of that ambivalence to the point of transgressive insight and possibly reinscribed escape .
13 Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it .
14 ‘ I 'll go , ’ said David , putting down his glass and hurrying out of the room .
15 Still I got all the washing and ironing out of the way thank goodness , it 's not bad now is it ?
16 The most dangerous moment of a policeman 's life is the time between getting his coat on and getting out of the station .
17 My favourite of them is the Power Toolbox , a way of taking program launching and switching out of the Program Manager altogether and putting your own buttons on the desktop .
18 This would normally result in overshooting and flying out of the field altogether .
19 The away end bogs , according to who was forced to abandon half-times plans for a piss , are Heysel revisited — one narrow tunnel going into and coming out of the place was crammed with hundreds of fans all going in and out at the same time , plus a few old bills looking on saying helpfully ‘ I should n't do that if I were you .
20 My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window .
21 The next morning Carolyn stayed in her room and read , dipping in and out of Clare 's books and staring out of the window , feeling surprisingly content .
22 Wizzo ! ’ yelled Zach , leaping up and running out of the kitchen , ‘ Calloo , calloo , calloo , callay . ’
23 Opposite him DS Stuart Finn was smoking a Marlboro , blowing out streams of smoke , alternately gazing into the depths of his tea cup and glancing out of the window .
24 I was standing up , offering to go downstairs to get more drinks , and glancing out of the window when I saw Jo .
25 The bulk of remaining works consists of beach clearance and removal of access roads , concrete finishing and tidying up of the ECB between MHs 14 and 21 and landscaping at Outfall 1 and hte stretch MH24 to MH27 .
26 She had seen the young man leaving Mary Kelly 's rooms and slipping out of the building by the back way on more than one occasion .
27 The difference between an action under the Act and a negligence action , is that in the latter the plaintiff must show that the defendant was negligent , i.e. that he failed to take reasonable care in the preparation and putting up of the product .
28 Delaney gave up , shutting it off and swivelling out of the chair .
29 The other reason was in the late eighties and early nineties we had a very large expenditure programme indeed in one year amounting to one hundred million pounds now of that are now becoming fully depreciated and falling out of the charge
30 Blonde Michelle says : ‘ My boyfriend Fisher Stevens will have to drag me kicking and screaming out of the house , but once I get on holiday I 'm sure I 'll enjoy it .
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