Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitor enquired , overhearing and swinging round in surprise . |
| 2 | My favourite of them is the Power Toolbox , a way of taking program launching and switching out of the Program Manager altogether and putting your own buttons on the desktop . |
| 3 | Well the answer is yes but of course landing and taking off on a road is one thing , being able to operate is another one because clearly one needs er fuel , weapons , ground crew and the like but landing on a road in itself is is not difficult . |
| 4 | Our goal is solely to establish whether , in a practical ensemble torn apart by antagonism ( whether there are multiple conflicts or whether they are reduced to one ) the breaks themselves are totalizing and carried along by the totalizing movement of the ensemble . |
| 5 | I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament . |
| 6 | His wet , cold body was aching and calling out for a hot meal and warm bed . |
| 7 | His parents were probably having coffee and pastries in a place among people ; Stu would be laughing and larking about with his mates at the wallpaper shop . |
| 8 | He then swept the car forward with an extravagant gesture of a bow and rejoined his mates who were laughing and calling out to him . |
| 9 | This evening , after his initial annoyance at her intrusion , he 'd apparently enjoyed her company , laughing and joking along with her as she recounted ever more risqué stories in that sultry , husky voice of hers . |
| 10 | Some climbers are very enthusiastic about the new proposal , recognising that the current system needs revising and bringing up to date . |
| 11 | Tom Horrocks dropped his head , hands at his knees , groaning and smiling up at them . |
| 12 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 13 | Corbett bathed in the guest-house 's one and only tub before dressing and going down to the buttery for ale and a bowl of bread and fish boiled in milk . |
| 14 | Mild advice to stop shouting and come back to bed because he was n't being very effective did little to deter Charles from a sense of deep injustice . |
| 15 | In the morning , everything was just as it always was when Mother went away ; much pleasanter , with nobody quarrelling even in that dreadful quiet way of just looking and going out of rooms when other people came into them , and Gran told them several good long stories in the evening . |
| 16 | Jannie leaned against the edge of the dresser , smoking and looking down at Bob . |
| 17 | Abrupt relaxations of the upper oesophageal sphincter independent of swallowing and lasting up to three seconds occurred during 54% of common cavity episodes . |
| 18 | By the end of May , we were finished training and sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteers . |
| 19 | Hogan , above , is writing and starring in To Be An Outlaw , a bank robber who finds his profession under threat as the West bows to 20th Century technology . |
| 20 | To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector . |
| 21 | They met on the Ponte Trinita , she seeing and calling out to him first . |
| 22 | I went back to my handbag to get my nailfile , then returned to where Katrina was kneeling and crouched down beside her . |
| 23 | Young people mostly ; some were singing and prancing along in the middle of the roadway . |
| 24 | The chief inspector waited at the end of the room and tried to siphon off his individual murmur from the swell of coughing and clattering round about . |
| 25 | This collection is the result of spending 10 months experimenting with different papers , allowing the image to be worked out ‘ in an organic way ’ as she describes defying the confines of the papers ’ rectangle by rearing and adding and building up to works with dimensions reaching over four foot . |
| 26 | When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there . |
| 27 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 28 | The others would get bored with waiting and go off on their own without him . |
| 29 | It is to that ‘ twilight zone ’ that we should direct our attentions , waiting and watching on as the edges waiver , become indistinct , and blend . |
| 30 | Waiting and watching down by the shops — |