Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 2 | The fog stayed with us throughout the night as we made painfully slow progress towards Hartlepool with bedtime stories on the radio of ships colliding and running aground to cheer us on our way . |
| 3 | Course manager Ian Duff has put the starting time back from 2.30pm in the hope of boosting the attendance and he pointed out : ‘ With the televised football not starting until after 7.00pm there should be enough time for people to leave their offices , go racing and come home to watch the soccer . ’ |
| 4 | Lizzy felt her voice rising and tried desperately to control it . |
| 5 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 6 | He could forget his own terror in this new danger , and he worked all night with the crowd , shouting , running and working together to stop the flames destroying more buildings . |
| 7 | Noreen was crying and trying hard to hide it . |
| 8 | The room suddenly wavered , melting and reforming only to melt again . |
| 9 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |