Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lagerfeld has temporarily switched off , leafing through a magazine and soliciting opinions on each advertisement , each editorial page , and being rude about them . |
| 2 | Deanne Petherbridge 's explosive imaginary architectonics emanate from this artist 's acute critical investigations into drawing as a genre and its media ; she brought her awareness of the new art history and gender studies to bear on a recent selection of works in pencil , charcoal , pen and ink , etc for a touring exhibition . |
| 3 | FIREFIGHTER Gary Madill is lucky to be alive after crashing through a roof and smashing 25 feet to the ground . |
| 4 | His large family lived on the floor above and scampered between hotel and home by climbing through a window and up a fire escape . |
| 5 | Some cat was climbing through a window and it were n't going . |
| 6 | Sylvia had rung up me about booking for a meal and I thought , originally they talked about going a Friday night , and they said , Friday and Saturday are fully booked for the next five weeks . |
| 7 | Su Ragazzi , who are bidding for a league and cup double , beat Jets in straight sets in Sewell 's second game in charge earlier this season but defeated them in the return in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | A WRITTLE Agricultural College technician was banned from driving for a year and fined £270 with £35 costs by Witham magistrates yesterday after pleading guilty to driving with excess alcohol . |
| 9 | Both were also banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay £25 costs . |
| 10 | If your offer is acceptable then you proceed by applying for a mortgage and informing your appointed solicitor or conveyancing agent of the details of the purchase , so that he or she can then make formal overtures to the vendor 's solicitors . |
| 11 | Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit . |
| 12 | Have you ever been walking or driving towards a destination and completely missed your turning because your mind was somewhere else ? |
| 13 | They were walking like a fellow and his date . |
| 14 | He tossed it into a front garden , laughing like a child and neither doing nor intending damage . |
| 15 | She met him again by chance on a train , after he had been lecturing at Bromley , and found him strangely excited , laughing like a manic-depressive and unable to sit still in the carriage . |
| 16 | There 's no point in me appearing with a pig-tail and diamanté donkey jacket . |
| 17 | Right great and what happens what seems to be happening with a base and an acid or an acid and a base ? |
| 18 | By the end of 1981 and into 1982 , however , these new outbreaks were occurring with a rapidity and density which in retrospect can be seen as the building blocks for a full-blown heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 19 | Perhaps not going home but booking into a hotel and |
| 20 | ‘ Try these , ’ he said returning with a dress and coat which he handed to her . |
| 21 | For most individuals this has been no great loss , the system usually being considered a much more complicated procedure than simply walking into a showroom and purchasing whatever took your ( and your pocket 's ) fancy . |
| 22 | She was climbing into a car and the camera had obviously taken her unawares . |
| 23 | A BUXOM woman stunned pensioner Jack Cookson — by leaping from a car and flashing her boobs . |
| 24 | And do n't suggest I try reversing all the way , since I have no intention of landing in a ditch and immobilising both vehicles . ’ |
| 25 | ( 5 ) The first two strophes have three rhymes ending in a plosive and nine occurrences in stressed position of the diphthong /ay/ , whereas both of these elements are absent from the second two strophes ; strophes I and II have , respectively , one definite followed by one inde finite article , and one inde finite followed by one de finite article , in contrast to the three indefinite articles in strophe ( II and the two definite articles in strophe IV . |
| 26 | Feet , each a thin tube ending in a sucker and kept firm by the pressure of water within , wave and curl in rows along the arms . |
| 27 | Because they 're opening on a Sunday and hoping that you 'll go in |
| 28 | The enormous bulk of the blue Rolls illuminated by his torch , then suddenly his feet going from under him , slipping in a pool of petrol , landing on a spanner and a piece of tubing . |
| 29 | When we were discovered by an irate householder , on our way home from school , knocking on a door and running away , or performing some other piece of naughtiness , if the injured party said , ‘ I shall tell your father of you , ’ we were alarmed . |
| 30 | I would have done two doors I think , someone knocking on a door and but I do n't think anyone would have got it . |