Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |
| 2 | They liked watching her play out a Cinderella fantasy , wearing gold lamé and riding in a gold-plated carriage to a ball from which she did not return until well after midnight . |
| 3 | I have lost them all , and live like my bones , separate and ageing in a cleverly concealing skin . |
| 4 | It came to Noreen 's rescue when she was just fifteen , pregnant and living in a Children 's Home with little hope of anywhere else to go . |
| 5 | ALONG WITH THE NEWS that Marilyn Monroe is alive and working in a pizza restaurant in Wisconsin , a US tabloid paper recently ran the headline : ‘ Disney Theme Park Found On Mars ’ . |
| 6 | Meanwhile people went in and out of the pharmacy but only two women of conceivably Agnes 's age : one very tall and striding in a long ethnic-of-somewhere skirt the other short and waddling , flat-heeled long blonde hair dark jacket and beret and a huge shoulder bag . |
| 7 | That I think perhaps is one of the striking differences between that and living in a house in Harlow , where you may or may not know your immediate neighbours . |
| 8 | Girls , money , fast cars — it was the choice between that and working in a factory for the rest of your life , and I went for the girls — ‘ I 'll have the girls and all the money , please . ’ |
| 9 | I was twenty-seven and working in a food and book collective . |
| 10 | David Norman used his words more precisely when he said they were ectothermic reptiles which were able to keep their bodies at a constant temperature ‘ by being very large and living in a warm , mild climate . ’ |
| 11 | If something exciting is detected the cat is awake and responding in a split second . |
| 12 | The work ethic is alive and well and living in a town where the official male unemployment figure is 15 per cent . |
| 13 | The shovel has a black rubber ribbed hand grip 12cms long and ending in a lanyard loop . |
| 14 | One day she may be left alone and weeping in a cold grey city with people who do not care . ’ |
| 15 | Burden grumbled that opening windows upset the air conditioning but he complied , raising the yellow venetian blind and letting in a powerful shaft of noonday sunshine . |
| 16 | However , using graphics as a research medium , suppose that a dot is dimensionless and floating in a void . |
| 17 | They wavered and moved uncannily , glinting and shifting and burning in a heavy , solid way no thing should in the air . |
| 18 | She would have reacted in exactly the same way if she had been stone-cold sober and standing in a bare room under a fluorescent light . |
| 19 | But unless one realizes that there is a mind structure , including appropriate sensory and motor indriyas at a subtle level , as well as corresponding sense organs and motor functions , such experimental observations remain obscure and lacking in a full understanding and interpretation . |
| 20 | Consider the difference between acquiring another car or two and investing in a multi-million pound plant . |
| 21 | I saw a girl not much older than her battered and dying in a hospital bed , not twenty-four hours since . |