Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] and [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 2 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 3 | Local authorities have been notoriously lax in projecting aims and policies and facing up to weaknesses . |
| 4 | Students at the nearby People 's University ( Renda ) joined in by chanting , beating their tin wash-basins and foodbowls and setting off firecrackers to make a lot of commotion . |
| 5 | Teachers who are unused to the behaviour of pupils with severely defective sight can be surprised by the way in which such children can move about within a setting in which they feel secure , negotiating stairs and corridors and moving along at speed with the stream of pupils going from room to room ; but unfamiliar settings and unexpected obstacles can cause difficulties or even be hazardous , and such hazards should be minimised . |
| 6 | An in-service activity can be conceived as something one person does to another , with the assumption that change is most effectively produced from outside ; or as a process in which teachers are centrally involved in analysing their own situation and needs and working out the best ways of tackling these . |
| 7 | Some people are capable of weathering the most horrendous adversities and catastrophes and coming through relatively unscathed by their experiences . |
| 8 | Catch a man bitching about healthhazards and conditions and going out on strike over no papertowels in the toilet or nagging over the lack of day nursery facilities |
| 9 | Sun will claim Dragon 's architecture makes it the most expandable Unix server in the business , capable of piling on memory , I/O , disk and CPUs and clearing up a lot of the bottleneck issues . |
| 10 | They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region . |
| 11 | The rampaging hooligans ran the length of the train , frightening passengers , smashing light bulbs and windows and ripping up seats , then attacked the driver and a woman guard . |
| 12 | If you are going to the school yourself , you can probably collect quite a lot of this general information by chatting with the teacher and pupils and noting down details of the surroundings . |
| 13 | The sun sank lower on my left and the blue shadows of dusk began gathering on the pines and firs and creeping in among the sapling branches and the alders . |
| 14 | When had life become all bed , all pillows and sheets and lying down ? |
| 15 | Misconception number two is that a Taiwanese factory represents some kind of ecologically disastrous sweatshop , with underpaid conscripts breathing dust and fumes and churning out rubbish guitars for eighteen hours at a stretch . |
| 16 | Councillor Mrs Brereton stated that planting of trees and bulbs and tidying up of paths had been carried out in Bloomiehall Park b ) the Railway Inn would be closing on the expiry of its lease and c ) further planning applications had been made by Lorimer House . |
| 17 | That is to say : Noise and shouts and rushing about . |
| 18 | Thereafter it monitors the quality of the incoming electrical supply , smoothing out peaks and troughs and cutting in for real if the power cuts out completely . |