Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [v-ing] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Pearce was being somehow lifted from his feet , still squashed against the glass , hands and feet drumming in a frenzy against the windows . |
| 2 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 3 | The ale wife went away cackling and came back to serve both of them huge tankards slopping over with ale and a shared platter of meat mixed with onions and leeks swimming in a sea of grease . |
| 4 | The way round it is to avoid making everything a priority , which is the great temptation in the health service , and establish what 's wanted by both ministers and users participating in a debate about what matters so that you limit the number of priorities , then get them refined so that they are easily understandable and structured . ’ |
| 5 | The HERMS structure , therefore , is a combination of relational information being held at hierarchical levels representing assemblies and sub-assemblies occurring in a machine . |
| 6 | He followed her eyes to the sides of the room where there were huge tapestries depicting nymphs and shepherds playing in a landscape filled with trees and winding streams . |