Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered whether the flak was accurate and thought of the people fifteen thousand feet above us in Wellingtons , Stirlings and Hampdens , eating chocolate and plotting their track or weaving desperately and praying like tiny panic-stricken children . |
| 2 | With girls or going out and having fun . |
| 3 | I liked going to the Youth Club or the pictures with him , or staying in and watching telly in his new flat , but we 'd grown apart . |
| 4 | The choice then lies between staying in and going through with the change despite initial disfavour or staying in and changing either reluctantly or superficially . |
| 5 | I realise that you can never really win against the water ; it will always triumph in the end , seeping and soaking and building up and undermining and overflowing . |
| 6 | And signing on and signing off … the goalie who 's saved himself from the dole queue |
| 7 | Acting and clowning around and singing and laughing in Share My Lettuce , Kenneth Williams was a British star . |
| 8 | Girls were encouraged to ask for help , play with dolls , take an interest in clothes and dressing up and stay close to parents and discouraged from being noisy and playing rough games . |
| 9 | ‘ Pet Sounds ’ was all of that : big fluffy clouds of studio-driven glory and a mass of dreamy , angsty impressions about falling in love and growing up and feeling extraordinarily sensitised about life 's rich business . |
| 10 | Pin top edges of valance and lining together and drawstitch the folded edges together . |
| 11 | And I 've thought about buying a , a me erm a metal detector and going up and going over the where the kirkyard was because when there were was here that was in about sixteen oh it might have been about sixteen sixty or sixteen eighty . |
| 12 | We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's never been much of a plan , so there 's no reason to cancel out any initial plans of getting degrees and going on and doing something else . ’ |
| 14 | I just remember having a great time and then feeling tired and going off and having a sleep . |
| 15 | Er the very fact that we 're at our desks er for more than seventy percent of our time filling these forms in er prevents us from moving on to the next prisoner and going out and arresting more people for crime . |
| 16 | They use a business language that is so predictable and going out and doing it is not part of the course . |
| 17 | I was a chargehand and then I just drifted into being a Redcoat , and getting up and doing five minutes on stage and enjoying it . |
| 18 | I think it 's about time that you stopped blaming , and I think it 's about time that you started accepting re le responsibility that you are in it and getting on and making this council . |
| 19 | round about the first world war time , he used this sort of sort of pitching his tent up to the and staying there and learning their language and observing their rituals , getting to know them . |
| 20 | He should stop shilly-shallying around and mucking about and ensure that that £100 million of our money is released to our coal mining areas . |
| 21 | His desperate girl , ox-eyed , perhaps twelve years old or perhaps thirty-five , waited outside the Customs Hall for him without leaving even to sleep , watching through the glass and crying softly and putting the damp balls of face tissue into a big plastic handbag that looked ugly and moving against her sari . |
| 22 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 23 | There 's something to be said for experiencing bad things and coming back and doing the business . |
| 24 | ‘ You might be dying with tonsillitis and every f—er is taking the piss out of yer and running around and shouting in the room . ’ |
| 25 | dumping himself and running around and banging into doors and things , stupid mutt , so er , erm give him his Bonio , he gets , he now barks at me when I sit down , till I get up and give him his Bon Bonio mum |
| 26 | If you have become fairly proficient at the nose-in hover , you may find that this figure is easier to perform by standing with your back to the wind and taking off and landing in the nose-in position . |
| 27 | He danced with his stick , planting it firmly on the ground and shuffling round and round it , hunching his shoulders and swaying in the gaslight like a man possessed . |
| 28 | Being an enabler of pupils ' learning is an unselfish task and " imaginative " teachers do not necessarily excel in qualities of humility and standing back and giving space to others . |
| 29 | Headaches are often one sided beginning in the occiput and extending forward and settling over the left eye |
| 30 | Headaches are often one sided beginning in the occiput and extending forward and settling over the left eye ( right is Sanguinaria , Silica etc . ) . |