Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [v-ing] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turns the water to steam and frees the light inside her , twisting and turning in a sparkling , spinning column . |
| 2 | It circled me now , yowling and screaming in a noxious way . |
| 3 | I was astonished , and a little dismayed , by the ease with which Dana entered into the spirit of things , giving Indian war-whoops and clowning and laughing in a way I thought was rather contemptible . |
| 4 | You should be an experienced dinghy sailor ( regularly sails with inexperienced crews ) who has also spend at least six days living and sailing in a small sailing cruiser . |
| 5 | So these particular species of bat or whale are living and working in a sonar world . |
| 6 | The kitchen seemed dark and cheerless and Hari wondered how she could go on living and working in a house that held so many memories . |
| 7 | The attitudes towards parenthood and parenting of people living and working in a multi-ethnic community are explored . |
| 8 | ‘ Suddenly , you are living and playing in a way you have n't since you were a child . |
| 9 | Probing , listening and reacting in a constructive , professional , nonjudgemental manner . |
| 10 | Katya , his sister , took his arm , pointing to the live crabs wriggling and pinching in a mesh basket . |
| 11 | He began shouting and screaming in a total panic . |
| 12 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 13 | Loulou charged up to each new arrival , thumping and hugging in a demonstrative greeting . |
| 14 | Operates with authority , directing and ordering in a well-defined manner . |
| 15 | Other musical diversions include conducting , leading and playing in a large number of amateur and semi-professional orchestras/chamber ensembles and writing 200+ sleeve notes for major classical record labels , . |
| 16 | When the salient vicinity includes another moving object , particularly a flying insect twisting and turning and diving in a desperate attempt to shake off its pursuer , the extra benefit to the bat of increasing its sample rate more than justifies the increased cost . |
| 17 | Sybil Bliss was almost incoherent with excitement , her voice rising and falling in a series of breathless peaks and troughs . |
| 18 | The bourgeoisie as a class found enormous difficulty in combining getting and spending in a morally satisfactory manner , just as it failed to solve the equivalent material problem , how to secure a succession of equally dynamic and capable businessmen within the same family , a fact which increased the role of daughters , who could introduce new blood into the business complex . |
| 19 | An adaptation is a modification of the genome resulting in structures , functions or behaviour patterns that increase the probability of an organism surviving and reproducing in a particular environment . |
| 20 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 21 | Some rumours , he says , have survived for centuries , merely by mutating and reappearing in a different guise . |
| 22 | The odds are that the engine of public policy change will , in fact , make few significant journeys and will spend most of the time hissing and panting in a siding . |
| 23 | Clare was nodding and smiling in a half amused , half indulgent manner . |
| 24 | She saw a haunted house , a superstition she had perhaps used for her own account , and he saw something more human , a complex web of relationships , interlocking and interacting in a way he could not yet fathom , and in which people got caught up and destroyed . |
| 25 | Its accomplishment is as much pictorial as musical , its images dissolving and recombining in a strange and haunting manner , In the piece there is no narrative and the character of Einstein appears playing the violin ( one of the physicist 's hobbies ) . |
| 26 | Anneliese grinned , casting a wicked look over her shoulder at where her older brother stood close by , talking and laughing in a group with Salvo and several other relatives . |
| 27 | Donald Stewart was talking and working in a steady frenzy . |
| 28 | Viennese by birth , she toured Europe playing and composing in a specially devised , pre-Braille music notation . |
| 29 | The local bands have not been altogether ousted ; some were taking part in the contests after playing and walking in a procession in the morning and playing at the sports in the afternoon . |
| 30 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |