Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that , one day , the goddess was dusting and picked up a ball of lint dropped by a blue humming-bird , placing it inside her apron . |
| 2 | Driven mad with grief by the loss of her child , she is thought to wander the streets weeping and crying out a ghostly memory of the pre-Conquest past . |
| 3 | The woman clung to Julia 's hand and broke down for the first time , weeping and pouring out a torrent of Italian that Julia was incapable of translating for herself . |
| 4 | A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time . |
| 5 | The military visitors saw a prisoner in top boots , oilskin and sou'wester angling and pulling out a dripping clog . |
| 6 | ‘ We just started a band going and put up a notice looking for a female singer so Dolores turned up . ’ |
| 7 | And even the most hardened cynic must agree that lying down with your eyes closed listening to music is a lot more appealing than grunting and straining over a set of weights in your local sports centre . |
| 8 | Maggie gave him a nudge as a rather flustered man pushed his way to the front of the people waiting and held up a placard — ‘ Señorita Howard ’ . |
| 9 | The usual stages of group work , leading , planning , implementing , evaluating and following up a group should be followed ( Preston-Shoot , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | He put down the pair of pliers he was holding and picked up a heavy adjustable spanner . |
| 11 | Now we were rumbling and petarding up a steep brown-earth road with long , high convent walls on each side , towards a little square with a few dimly lit small shops and pollarded trees like headless ostriches perched on one knobbly leg . |
| 12 | The books give all the insider know-how for staying and getting around a country on a shoestring budget . |
| 13 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 14 | A small train , hauled by a tiny steam engine and comprising double-bogied cars carrying three sealed , hissing cauldrons each , trundled slowly by , wheels screeching and clattering over a set of points . |
| 15 | However a hand drill can be a useful extra tool for making holes in locations remote from a power supply , or simply for a one-off drilling job in the workshop for which it is not worth unpacking and setting up a power tool . |
| 16 | The purpose of this module is to provide the opportunity to explore questions of having and bringing up a family , to develop knowledge and skills in being a parent in areas selected on the basis of each individual 's needs and interests , and to help people enjoy being parents . |
| 17 | And Jay was pacing her attic , bars tightening and cracking around a heart that would not stop hurting ; she could not lay her body down though it screamed for rest and knots of fury made her neck and shoulders a steely hunch like a vulture . |
| 18 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 19 | Saved by a piano falling and holding up a beam , thank God . ’ |
| 20 | Break up a little of the white or plain dark chocolate for decorating and melt over a pan of simmering water ( see step 1 ) . |
| 21 | But in the middle of this beautiful room , Isabella and Edgar Linton were screaming and fighting over a little dog ! |
| 22 | Erm it 's a very , it 's always a good idea to do a plan , cos yeah , spend five minutes or so planning and jot down a rough plan and it might be that we would , we wo , we would normally ignore , ignore the plan when marking but if , you have n't finished a question and er , it 's a bit thin we might look at your plan to get some idea of what you would actually written |
| 23 | With the toe of his shoe he kicked a loose pebble on the path , sending it spinning and ricocheting over a nearby flowerbed . |