Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in there for a good five minutes crashing around and swearing occasionally . |
| 2 | Others have suggested that there were paired nasal sacs opening separately and gave rise to the theory that heterostracans might be ancestral to jawed vertebrates ( Fig. 2 B , b ) . |
| 3 | She turned , eyes flashing flirtatiously and pushed back his hair from his forehead . |
| 4 | They did n't want the Yanks stumbling in and screwing up in an attempt to force the issue . |
| 5 | Beyond him rode the Lombard brothers grinning broadly and enjoying themselves . |
| 6 | Drivers filling up and speeding off without paying was the top crime , with 55 per cent of stations hit . |
| 7 | I mean I did n't find any husbands going out and choosing lampshades , for instance , or they were n't particularly bothered about the colour of curtains . |
| 8 | In other words going out and buying some |
| 9 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 10 | I saw Jews going about and thought of Daisy and Joszef this fourth Christmas of their marriage . |
| 11 | Head large , with large eyes facing forwards and set in a flattened facial disc , whose feathers usually conceal the short hooked bill . |
| 12 | If a dual carriageway is built the fields will be just concrete and we 'll lie awake listening to cars zooming past and seeing flashing lights . |
| 13 | Does not the proactivity need to be politicians of all parties coming together and discussing and listening to each other rather than simply making pronouncements ? |
| 14 | Stuck on a Northern Line train between Tooting Beck and Balham , a gaggle of lads running amok and jeering with lighted fags . |
| 15 | Eventually , and despite the onset of winter weather , we managed to get most of the sequences we wanted , including foxes scavenging on long , lonely stretches of shingle , male foxes pacing out and marking their territorial boundaries , foxes fighting , and cubs in search of their own territories . |
| 16 | To prevent hens laying outdoors and roosting in the trees , the report suggests that the birds be kept in their housing until mid-morning , and be presented with a main feed in-house in the evening before being shut in for the night . |
| 17 | However , baby universes branching off and joining on will affect the apparent value of the cosmological constant . |
| 18 | And then me picking up the keys living here and taking it down the road ! |
| 19 | And er then I would see the two two or three cleaners coming out and going on to the coach and cleaning them , and I would say to them , What are they for ? |
| 20 | Its job will be to consider the responses coming in and to decide the priorities . |
| 21 | The wet and windy conditions prevailing were not conducive to good hockey , with the visitors adapting better and taking both points in a creditable 2–1 win . |
| 22 | Stories were told of whole communities sitting down and wailing the old tune whilst waiting for the slave masters to arrive and incarcerate their bodies and souls . |
| 23 | They can see parents falling out and learning to compromise and become friends again and that helps them , in turn , to create a good marriage . |
| 24 | In recent years the habit of the All Blacks leaving together and returning together after a trip to Europe has disappeared . |
| 25 | Another essential ingredient of our diet is fibre , the importance of which is to provide bulk to keep our gastro-intestinal tracts working satisfactorily and to provide nourishment for the beneficial bacteria which , in health , inhabit our large intestines and supply us with a not inconsiderable proportion of our daily vitamin requirements . |
| 26 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 27 | ‘ After months of no one coming near , last week a team of men arrived and spent days walking around and surveying , so — ’ she made a face ‘ — I assumed work on the dreaded parque aquático was about to start . ’ |
| 28 | Most work was very modest , keeping the right trees and plants growing well and excluding the others — in other words , weeding . |
| 29 | They could thus prevent any group of workers going off and setting up their own workshop in competition to the merchant and capitalist class . |
| 30 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |