Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most are speaking , walking and managing very nicely by the time they are three . |
| 2 | They were closer now to whatever was happening and heard very distinctly the heavy fall on the steel deck , the clatter of a falling rifle and the choking gasp . |
| 3 | Parents caught in this situation need the opportunity to balance their views about what is happening and watch more carefully for the trigger to the behaviour problems . |
| 4 | Maureen showed an unexpected aptitude for driving and learned very quickly but Helen was not jealous . |
| 5 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 6 | ‘ Spur-of-the-moment pique , ’ he explained drily , laughing and leaning over daringly to kiss her cheek . |
| 7 | Falconer was quiet and secretive but seemed in very good humour , laughing and talking rather garrulously . |
| 8 | I was left in bed trying not to show how scared I was — shivering and wondering how long it would be before our own house caught fire , as from my window I could see the flames from the burning laundry , less than three hundred yards away . |
| 9 | She had gone through all the rigmarole of dressing and making up almost on automatic pilot , deriving none of the normal pleasure from the procedure . |
| 10 | But the Chancellor may be looking and hoping further ahead , to Friday 's US employment report and the possibility that a bit of a dollar rebound might haul the pound up against the mark . |
| 11 | But as the shaking continued she came up out of the bad dream , trembling and drenched once more with perspiration , her cheeks damp with tears . |
| 12 | ‘ In the Gwynedd district , we are developing and refurbishing well over 300 km of line per year in order to improve the quality of supply to our customers , and it is essential that our costs are kept to a minimum , ’ said Mr Basford . |
| 13 | He thumped and jumped about the house , or would lie and watch television with his hands and feet tapping and banging away constantly . |
| 14 | As well as the horror stories of the tsarist penal system and the Stalinist GULag , there are also examples of those exiles who managed to lead a relatively comfortable , if spartan , existence , taking regular exercise , hunting for sport , reading , writing and corresponding fairly freely with fellow exiles , enjoying connubial pleasures and composing theoretical treatises — one thinks particularly of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin who spent three reasonably fruitful and unexacting years , most of the time with his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya , living as a political exile in the home of a rich peasant in the village of Shushenskoe in southern Siberia ( 1897–1900 ) . |
| 15 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 16 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 17 | Stop doubting and believe more firmly ! |
| 18 | Another marked feature of the service industries is the large amount of female labour they employ : among the highest levels were professional and scientific services where it was 70 per cent by 1970 and in both catering and retailing just over 60 per cent . |
| 19 | And so whilst Ruth and Naomi are resting and waiting back home Boaz is acting , and he sought out this man , he 's determined now to see that Ruth and Naomi receive all that is there 's by right . |
| 20 | They finished eating and sauntered back upstairs . |
| 21 | And yet this acute observer would describe the very same people — almost unaware of what she was observing — as physically overworked during times of busy trade , as eating and sleeping too little , as too physically exhausted for intellectual effort , at the mercy of ‘ the many chances of breakdown and failure meaning absence of physical comfort ’ . |
| 22 | Sometimes it shrivelled into itself like water splashing on hot stones , then flared out again as its owner shrank down in a spasm of coughing and straightened up again . |
| 23 | Now he was scarcely talking to her , but more to himself , analysing and defining as always . |
| 24 | Right all those need slicing and buttering and putting on there . |
| 25 | Down street people going and parking up there . |
| 26 | Some people need Dermavate to tick over with but er it 's a bit potent to keep people going and going and going on so we 'll see how you go with that . |
| 27 | Eachuinn Odhar had been busy with Father Patrick , dictating letters to all parts ; the Abbot of Iona ; the king 's court in Edinburgh ; even Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , at Inveraray ; messages had been going and coming in almost daily by boat and weary runner . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , I was sweating and burning up so much that I was in danger of melting away into a puddle . |
| 29 | Although in many parts of the world babies do n't drink milk after weaning and grow up perfectly healthy , in Northern Europe cow 's milk is part of our diet and young children are encouraged to drink it because it 's cheap , convenient , high in protein and energy , and a good source of calcium and vitamins A and B. There are conflicting opinions on when cow 's milk can first be given to children . |
| 30 | Sister Cooney stood and watched it in mild amusement , before turning and walking thoughtfully inside . |