Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly beat in the gelatine to form a smooth dough and knead well in the bowl . |
| 2 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 3 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 4 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 5 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 6 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 7 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 8 | I settled back in my seat , picked some dirt from my fingernails with a spare scythe blade , and whispered discreetly through the partition . |
| 9 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 10 | They are high speed and fun , cutting through the water with little wake , and are raced and cruised all around the UK . |
| 11 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
| 12 | But there is scope for innovation and change both in the composition and procedures of appellate courts ( Bell , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | From early on March 28 the whole of Moscow city centre appeared to be under siege , with lorries and armoured cars blocking all approaches to the Kremlin , water-cannon trucks , mounted police and troops in gas masks stationed in backstreets , and troops on street corners keeping shoppers and sightseers away from the Kremlin . |
| 14 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 15 | Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot . |
| 16 | On the one hand , private enterprise is presented as efficient , cost-effective and competitive while public provision is shown as wasteful , inefficient , and concerned more with the interests of the workers involved than with the consumers of the service . |
| 17 | With Rex and Woodchip out of the picture and the forces of darkness set loose upon the land , how can we fail ? |
| 18 | ‘ Shandwick offered the opportunity to retain our own name and develop autonomously with no interference and they have been totally true to their word . |
| 19 | A DEAF woman with speech difficulties was stunned , sexually assaulted and stabbed repeatedly by a killer who got into the flat where she lived alone , a court was told yesterday . |
| 20 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 21 | Rose tells me he 's back and peacocking about as a vicar . ’ |
| 22 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 23 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 24 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 25 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 26 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 27 | You can hasten this recovery process by relaxing , resting and eating well in the days following your run . |
| 28 | She had packed and checked out of the hotel without seeing either of the two brothers or her cousin . |
| 29 | And the needs of people with learning difficulties and their carers , above all , can not be defined and prescribed independently of the process of encouraging and helping them to welcome opportunities and change . |
| 30 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |