Example sentences of "[noun] and [v-ing] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any books on the Alexander Method co-ordinate thinking and doing in a creative way . |
| 2 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 3 | Many of the programmes do little to stimulate the mind and sitting in a chair staring at a screen is not too good for the body either . |
| 4 | Her mother fastening Melanie 's coat snugly at the neck and tucking in a scarf . |
| 5 | W.G. Grace was taking part in a match for London County against Warwickshire , opening the batting with W.L. Murdoch and playing in a fashion which reminded contemporary reporters of his heyday , and C.B. Fry was scoring a century for Sussex . |
| 6 | MANAGERS at BASF , the West German chemical company that specialises in making recording tape , believe the audio industry-could double its sales of musicassettes by using chromium dioxide tape and recording in a different way . |
| 7 | Second Wave 's new musical 13 LUCKY FOR SOME by Lisselle Kayla is the story of friendship and bullying in a class of third year girls . |
| 8 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 9 | Employee attitudes are likely to range from excitement at the prospect of living and working in a foreign country to dread of having to adapt to a different climate , culture and life style . |
| 10 | It was , he felt , one of the advantages of living and working in a small town . |
| 11 | Not only did he go on to lose at Waterloo : he suffered the final indignity of living and dying in a house called The Briars on St Helena , far down in the South Atlantic . |
| 12 | Perhaps , as he himself later suggested in his memoirs , he was assailed by a sense of living and leading in a less heroic era than that of the 1940s . |
| 13 | A sherd found in the 1958 excavations on the route of the A1 at Water Newton shows a small creature with a long tail riding a horse and holding in a hand , with long slender fingers , a standard ( fig. 14.10 ) . |
| 14 | present their ideas , experiences and understanding in a widening range of contexts which require an increasing awareness of audience and purpose ; |
| 15 | To this day , I can see Valerie heaving a deep sigh and murmuring in a piercing whisper which echoed all round the hut , ‘ I think I 'm ripe for marriage ! ’ |
| 16 | And now , to make matters worse , here 's this fella in a suit , the bride 's father , nodding at Pierce Turner and asking in a loud voice : ‘ is that a he or she ? ’ . |
| 17 | In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz . |
| 18 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 19 | ‘ Quiet and friendly , a village-like town stretching along a lakeside promenade and nestling in a wealth of scenic loveliness . ’ |
| 20 | And this will be a sign for you : you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger . ’ |
| 21 | Reaching out her arms , Beth enfolded the girl to her , resting her face against Cissie 's fair hair and saying in a softer voice , ‘ Do you remember years ago when you asked about my family ? ’ |
| 22 | Going down to the hospital basement and disrobing in a utility room full of bleach bottles and moulting mops was a tantalisingly prosaic prelude to my voyages into inner space . |
| 23 | These can be seen by examining Fig. 1 which shows the flow of income and spending in a simple model of an economy . |
| 24 | Second-hand pipe organs are sometimes worth considering when they are fine instruments and when the total cost of their purchase , removal and rebuilding in a place suitable for them makes economic sense . |
| 25 | Marsha Rowe was part-timing at university and working in a dead-end secretarial job . |
| 26 | A second later — and I mean one second — the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel , leaving me pedalling air one moment and swimming in a pile of dead leaves the next . |
| 27 | ‘ Through dark doorways you look down flights of stone steps , overhung by great , pink tufts of valerian and ending in a patch of sparkling blue water . ’ |
| 28 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 29 | The victim can raise his or her status through standing and sitting tall and proud , making steady eye contact with the interviewer from the outset , taking time to answer questions and responding in a clear voice . |
| 30 | And he added : ‘ I did n't lose contact with golf , preserving my Scratch handicap and playing in a combined Berks , Bucks and Oxford county team . |