Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden . |
| 2 | That night he took a midnight train to London , searched for her all day , and had his first demanding quarrel with her in a Chinese restaurant at five o'clock in the afternoon , blue-jowled with fear and tiredness , and smelling of the stale smells of travellers . |
| 3 | The helpful thread of Ariadne ; the artistic weavings of Arachne ; the spinning and snipping of the three Fates . |
| 4 | In deaf clubs and institutes throughout the country , there was also much fund-raising and knitting for the armed services . |
| 5 | The easier alternative for video is to record the scene as a two-shot ( page 73 ) , the static nature of which can be relieved by discreetly zooming in and panning between the two speakers from time to time and then zooming back to the two-shot . |
| 6 | Bands appear in the streets , and folklore groups are dancing and singing in the central reservations and gardens of Funchal . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the only castle I 've ever seen that I can imagine living in , ’ she said , standing in the upper gallery and gazing at the magnificent views from the windows . |
| 8 | The Indian had turned away , ignoring his questions and gazing across the swollen waters of that ridiculously named river . |
| 9 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 10 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 11 | This suggests , Leakey and Lewin argue , considerable conceptualising capacities : consciously relating to others through language and reflecting on the innate processes to which they are subject . |
| 12 | This channel might be solid state but the crunch sounds quite natural , and experimenting with the various options on both channels I ca n't imagine many players not being able to come up with a sound which meets their particular requirements . |
| 13 | And I can tell you this : I 'm amazed at your new modern outlook ; I 've always known you to be as strait-laced as a Victorian corset and sticking to the narrow principles of that time in which you were brought up . |
| 14 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 15 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |
| 16 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 17 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |
| 18 | The way to the marvellous boy led through the flat , lush green pasturelands of western France , peopled with huge milk-white cows , and alternating with the serried rows of vines . |
| 19 | Joseph divided his time between fighting and councilling with the other headmen in a concealed ‘ smoking lodge ’ . |
| 20 | Once a week for five years Jerry has driven his articulated lorry for Courtaulds from Coventry to the Lyons region , delivering acetate yarn and returning with the empty beams that hold the yarn . |
| 21 | It might not be as exotic as Rio , but a day spent bobbing and weaving between the marching bands and floats — and pubs — should acquaint you with the Dublin spirit . |
| 22 | As we pulled into the jetty , they were flying all around and landing on the grassy slopes . |
| 23 | Obviously having only played a couple of gigs , including Radio City ( New York and appearing on The Grammy Awards , their inexperience showed . |
| 24 | Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places . |
| 25 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 26 | For here his father was , sitting down beside him , hugging and kissing him , taking his hand again and laughing at the silly terrors his little game had aroused in his son . |
| 27 | Thus , writing C for the capacitance of C 1 in parallel with C 2 and eliminating between the two equations or where , and In terms of partial fractions it is convenient to express the Laplace transform of I 2 as so that taking the inverse Laplace transformation where Note that and are both positive and real since and The latter result follows because From equation ( 11.51 ) the time dependence of the output voltage is given by But when assuming capacitor C 2 is uncharged initially . |
| 28 | Then he and Nina and the detective inspector were hurrying from the building and climbing into an unmarked police car . |
| 29 | Long before I came to know north west Scotland I read an article in a yachting journal about sailing and climbing in the mountainous fiords of Norway . |
| 30 | The phonetic orthography of both the Cyrillic alphabet of Serbia and the Latin alphabet of Croatia and Slovenia made for easier communication and understanding among the Yugoslav peoples and led to common political action . |