Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the pill he kept waking and hearing the old men around him coughing or mumbling in their sleep . |
| 2 | They dragged her by her arms as she shouted , twisting and turning in their grasp . |
| 3 | The handkerchief that she 'd been twisting and untwisting at our first interview came out again , this time to her eyes . |
| 4 | The members spend their evenings twisting and stretching on their mats . |
| 5 | Once Richards had to dive out of the way as Tribe , twisting and stretching in his straps lurched across the formation . |
| 6 | ‘ You better stop sulking and apologize to your mother or I wo n't take you to Argentina . ’ |
| 7 | It 's certainly difficult to imagine anything dark or dastardly happening in Dentdale — it seems such a friendly , cheerful , always happy place , with its rounded fells , its lush fields and the river appearing and disappearing below its limestone bed . |
| 8 | The Whip is interrupting and asking for my solution . |
| 9 | Fortunately I realized what was happening and went to our Old Town doctor , who had some serious things to say about this method she considered Germanic , and we were sent to St Helen 's Hospital for a minor operation and a re-think . |
| 10 | He saw what was happening and comes to my rescue . |
| 11 | ‘ Dreadfully sorry , old chap ! ’ the Commander had said when he first heard , Lis voice wheezing and whistling in his throat . |
| 12 | Her eyes still fixed on his , her breath shuddering and jerking in her parted mouth , she completed the task . |
| 13 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 14 | And she stared too at her own friends , who appeared to her suddenly in a new light , laughing and fiddling with their luggage labels , and casting their eyes around them as though unbalanced by the sudden variety of choice . |
| 15 | Earl Siward made a joke that was barely repeatable , even when changed into Anglo-Saxon , and pushed past Bishop Malduin into the forest , laughing and biting into his pork . |
| 16 | And leaping into the saddle he raced back to Grimspound , Nero at full stretch , the Devil laughing and snapping at his heels as he went . |
| 17 | Much litter is related to vehicles too , whether thrown from them in passing or resulting from their roadside cleansing or repair . |
| 18 | ( THE PATIENT FOLLOWS THE MOVEMENT , WITHOUT PUSHING OR PULLING THROUGH HIS ARM . ) |
| 19 | Accepting that you will need to provide either training or re-training for your existing staff means that you will remember to budget for it in the overall cost of the system . |
| 20 | At length , Bunting recalled , ‘ the largest workman rose frowning and came to our table ; but what he said was : ‘ Is it no the great poet , Hugh MacDiarmid ? ’ |
| 21 | The links that have developed in networking with the many voluntary groups that operate in the areas and the recognition of the individuals right to self-esteem and to develop an expertise in relation to living and functioning in their many roles , has changed my way of working with people — probably forever . |
| 22 | Firstly , to look after the professional craftsmen living and working in our area , and secondly to make the crafts more easily accessible to the general public . |
| 23 | Now Modigliani was living and working in his own place , producing about four paintings a month . |
| 24 | The ICRDG has invited earth scientists from the geological surveys of almost all the developing countries to spend eight weeks in Cyprus , living and working alongside its members ; during the summer about 20 will come . |
| 25 | It often perches on posts listening and looking with its large eyes , which are dark and elfin-like . |
| 26 | Ranulf sat slumped in the bench beside him , groaning and muttering at his master . |
| 27 | They were dragged , shrieking and weeping from their homes and hurled like so much old clothing into the middle of the road . |
| 28 | ‘ We had a nest of white sticks in a tree and I can remember others of our kind soaring high on the wind and then stooping from out of that same hot sky , down towards the surface of the lake , their stoop so fast that you could hear the winds riffling and racing in their outstretched wings . |
| 29 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 30 | It was n't until the next day someone heard him shouting and came to his rescue . |