Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The declivities seemed to promise more ease than the heights because of the heavier shade and the caressing sound of the small brooks which ran clear and sparkling across their path . |
| 2 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 3 | The sky was clear and glittering with icy stars . |
| 4 | Lucien , keeping close behind , noticed that Tavalouze 's robe was a little stained , and his hair was as unshaped and straggling as a beggar 's . |
| 5 | Certainly there appears to be some sense in restricting any changes in the law of incest so that it continues to be an offence for a parent or grandparent to have sexual relations with a child aged 16 or 17 , because children of that age are often dependent and living at home , and so the conditions for exploitation are still present at that age . |
| 6 | It should also be clear that although there is a general tendency for speech to be more reciprocal and writing to be less so , this is by no means necessarily true , and the reciprocal-non-reciprocal cline , like the formal-informal cline , cuts across the distinction between speech and writing . |
| 7 | Any non-governmental movement might be suspect in such circumstances , untried and lacking in those essential relationships and assets by which inter-state bargains can be struck . |
| 8 | They were the harmless copying the harmful and benefiting from the deception . |
| 9 | Having also taken over Baragumu , this company combined the two in mid-1961 as the weekly Mwafrika na Taifa ( ‘ African and Nation ’ ) , while continuing Mwafrika as a daily and keeping on Robert Makange as editor . |
| 10 | There the cries of the watersellers and the buzz of taxis came wafting on the wind , strident and echoing across the dirty water . |
| 11 | He was anonymously handsome , studiously calm and trying to be detached . |
| 12 | Worrying about people 's comments instead of keeping calm and concentrating on the flying and on getting down safely is often the root cause of a bad landing . |
| 13 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 14 | Do n't go about much ; no late returning in crowded streets from Earl 's Court or elsewhere ; no dissipating jabber and smoking and drinking with the Andrews [ where Helen was employed ] . |
| 15 | I sat there awhile smoking and thinking about things in general , and Bonanza in particular . |
| 16 | That temper was raised higher still when he was finally allowed through and found Matchsticks already waiting , idly smoking and flicking through a copy of Lui . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When she arrived in Paris in May 1914 , she was in a dangerous frame of mind , footloose , resentful and spoiling for adventure . |
| 19 | ‘ The speed with which some of the incidents flared up suggests , in fact , that the kids were not sitting indoors , but that they were already out there on the streets — often bored , resentful and waiting for trouble ’ ( ibid.:46 ) . |
| 20 | From Table 4.1 it can be seen that almost one-third of IT postgraduates would be unemployed and looking for work at the end of their course . |
| 21 | Ellis , who was unemployed and living on benefit , hit upon the idea that the girl should go out to work as a prostitute , it was claimed . |
| 22 | A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth . |
| 23 | ( Now unemployed and living in Newport , incidentally . ) |
| 24 | There were some letters to his mother , widowed and living in Bury — some phrases from which had been plundered for the article in the Sunday Chronicle . |
| 25 | Her cheeks , her stomach , her arms and her lower legs felt heavy , pressed under the weight of the sun , then light and drifting in its warmth . |
| 26 | When you get light and trembling with that special kind of stage fright , you ca n't trust your fingers to do what they 're told . |
| 27 | The sun had just set , and the sky was still light and glowing with softly pastel mauves and pinks , but here in the thick trees , it was hard to see . |
| 28 | A crackle and sparkle of steel , spitting light and vanishing into shadow , but to reappear by spasmodic flashes thereafter , moving up towards him . |
| 29 | In my view , in very simple terms , it 's a fight between Right and Left ; right-wing politics tend to be masculine and punitive by nature , and arguably anti-women ; left-wing politics on the other hand , tend to be more feminine and caring in essence , and pro-people . |
| 30 | Child care research should help practitioners distinguish what is grave and enduring from the less serious and transient . |