Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographing wildlife sounds easy — have your camera at the ready when you 're out walking and click away when you spot something . |
| 2 | This attitude can , for example , be seen in a limited expression of empathy ( teenage boys and girls laughing and joking together as they help relatives of a dead baby dig a grave , for example ) . |
| 3 | But she showered the girl with love and affection , sitting with her night after night , to talk and reminisce , recalling Maisie 's antics , and laughing and crying together until after a while Cissie began to emerge from her grief and the bond between her and Beth grew ever stronger . |
| 4 | He was laughing and wincing even as he threw me across the room into his drum-kit . |
| 5 | I can assure them , and the people as a whole , that the L M S scheme had been born , was living and progressing well when Labour took control of the Council . |
| 6 | Thus if both partners have a commitment to listening and responding swiftly when conflict strikes , the permission to express emotion will be a healthy safety valve for the relationship , and a vital part of its ongoing maintenance . |
| 7 | ‘ She started shivering and sneezing soon after we left Carlisle . |
| 8 | Its substance reformed and repaired itself , recoagulating and stiffening even as Jaq hewed with his power axe and as his companions lasered . |
| 9 | It 's full to the damn brim with diamonds , glittering and gleaming away like they was alive . |
| 10 | Leisure activities still take place here although they are more likely to be water skiing , wind surfing and sailing rather than bathing . |
| 11 | Because it 's very , I mean you know mathematicians have written books about this , erm and yeah kids of five or six are quite happily adding and taking away until they get to negative numbers , until someone says ah I 'm going to add to that money you 've got there , I 'm gon na add minus seven . |
| 12 | The interlinked circles of this part of London , declining and changing now as social patterns altered and moved people away , but still strong in those groups which had gone to school together , married within their peer group and worked side by side , struck him afresh . |
| 13 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 14 | A. vole premaxilla showing breakage of incisors ( ×15 ) ; B. sutural separation between premaxilla and maxilla ( ×15 ) ; C. occlusal cracking of vole molars ( ×15 ) ; D. enlargement of cracking , which appears to start in the dentine and then causes separation of the inner enamel surface ( ×75 ) ; E. slight chipping of enamel edge ( ×225 ) ; F. longitudinal splitting of incisor enamel ( ×15 ) ; G. slight modification of enamel surface of the incisor enamel ( same specimen as F. ) ( ×75 ) ; H. enlargement of enamel modification , showing it to be caused by splitting and flaking rather than etching ( ×375 ) ; I. femur head showing slight cracking ( ×26 ) ; J. enlargement of cracking ( ×75 ) ; K. splitting and cracking of tibia shaft ( ×38 ) ; L. enlargement of tibia ( ×75 ) ; M. splitting and depression of immature long bone shaft ( 15 ) ; N. enlargement of same ( ×60 ) . |
| 15 | Chen pulled up sharply , almost thudding into Karr who stood there , his hands clenched at his sides , his great chest rising and falling heavily as he stared down at the three prone gangsters . |
| 16 | She glared at him fiercely , her breasts rising and falling rapidly as she struggled for breath . |
| 17 | It had no identifiable melody , it was just beautifully melodic , rising and falling gently as it carried him along . |
| 18 | She came down with this summer flu everyone 's getting and went home before I got in . |
| 19 | When his hand found the rounded contour of her bare breast under her blouse she shuddered convulsively against him , pressing her body forward , her breath coming and going quickly as he rubbed the raised bud of her nipple . |
| 20 | It welcomes starting and purrs luxuriously as all things American should . |
| 21 | The gleam of insulating oil shone bright on the prominences of his face , dimming and brightening again as she moved past him to hunker down at his side . |
| 22 | Coppicing and laying rather than flailing provided a better stock-proof boundary which would also benefit wildlife . |
| 23 | The rope was still thrumming and protesting tautly as Larsen hauled himself up its length . |
| 24 | In severe cases , they may respond by shaking and urinating uncontrollably when they come near the surgery . |
| 25 | Their most obvious effect had been a massive increase in speculation as more capitalists tried to make money by wheeling and dealing rather than by productive investment : hence the huge foreign exchange dealings and the booms in share prices , gold , land , real estate and commodities . |