Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for example , in her solo in Ashton 's Cinderella the Winter Fairy moves across the stage in a series of pas de bourrée en tournantà terre , the feet weaving their in-and-out pattern as the arms flick to and fro sparkling with frost . |
| 2 | Drawing largely on the Marshall Berman/Perry Anderson debate , and thereby making of Modernism the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity , itself conceived as a response to capitalist modernisation , Callinicos seems to want to claim in essence that both the former are partial in respect of the fact of this last . |
| 3 | Thomas looked at them all , and then at Simon , who was now a small figure and in another sense no longer monstrous , because he was walking exactly as he had done when he was a very young child and most moving to Thomas , with his hands in his pockets and his back arched . |
| 4 | Ben says I should n't feel guilty , that we 're doing nothing wrong , but lying is wrong and deceiving your mother is wrong , and feeling so happy and so loving with Ben is wrong . |
| 5 | Perhaps the two events were not unrelated : it is tempting to think of a Tudor entrepreneur seeing the bottom drop out of the wooden armaments market and so moving into lutes . |
| 6 | Perdita felt too tired to eat , but when she tried her steak it was pure poetry , tender as velvet , juicy as an orange , and so exploding with flavour that she was soon piling her plate with potato purée , tomato salad and geranium-red barbecue sauce . |
| 7 | They are also the largest single source of income , and so spending from wage packets is a key source of markets . |
| 8 | Naturally , there are many TNCs that run specific production lines to serve specific markets ( see Hill and Still , 1984a , b ) , but it is usually the case that a TNC will prefer to enter a new market with a standard product rather than incur the costs of retooling , redesign and perhaps restructuring of distribution . |
| 9 | Four months ago Alan Govier was looking forward to early retirement , buying a new car and perhaps going on holiday . |
| 10 | Our current cultural experience has revealed that the premise of a grand historical narrative presenting a unified cultural progression centred on interests that are male and European , and only dealing with activities engaged in by the minority in social and political control , can no longer compel our assent . |
| 11 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 12 | Not so rugged as they once were , America 's oilmen spend more of their time moaning to politicians and colleagues at seminars about imports , environmentalists and taxes , and less drilling for oil and gas . |
| 13 | Each such polarization invariably reflects the values of the writers who impose it , but there is a wide consensus among critics who have written about the literature of the period that the majority of it is unambitious , anti-experimental and somewhat lacking in originality . |
| 14 | A general fining of the material and better sorting from east to west is the result . |
| 15 | Management skills and systems development to ensure efficient use of resources in a more dispersed service and better targeting of health need |
| 16 | President Leonid Kravchuk , in a speech reported on Sept. 10 , called for swift economic reform , criticizing the increasingly bitter arguments between the Supreme Soviet ( Supreme Rada ) and the government , and apparently siding with opposition parties against Prime Minister Vitold Fokin . |
| 17 | Francesca was as pretty as a picture and apparently glowing with health . |
| 18 | The overture finishes to applause , the curtains open , thunder rumbles and lightning flashes to reveal me , arms raised skyward and apparently floating in midair , as a huge mirror silently descends and I speak the first lines : |
| 19 | In the indictment Bunyan was accused , among other things , of ‘ devilishly and perniciously abstaining from coming to Church to hear Divine Service ’ . |
| 20 | There was a babble of languages and much pointing of fingers . |
| 21 | Warmed by the Gulf Stream and with an enviably mild climate , it feels like another country — but with all the comforts of home and duty-free shopping to boot ! |
| 22 | The race has to be held between noon and 1pm according to tradition , so weighing in takes place between 10.30am and 11.30am . |
| 23 | After that , he merely sat , smoking Woodbines and idly listening to Music While You Work on the radio . |
| 24 | After sowing and gently firming in seeds with a circular tamper , water them in by placing pots in a bowl of water and removing them when the compost is dark and moist . |
| 25 | Rocky mountainous country , breeding on cliff ledges , and generally roosting on rocks or crags . |
| 26 | Two days later , after a peaceful voyage , we disembarked at Calais — a dreadful place , England 's last foothold in France , nothing more than a glorified fortress packed with men-at-arms and archers , who staggered the streets in their boiled leather jerkins , drinking in the many ale houses and generally looking for trouble . |
| 27 | I was into skateboarding too , and generally getting into trouble . ’ |
| 28 | Whatever the reason , male marmosets have developed a rearing strategy whereby they greatly assist the mother by carrying , holding , and generally caring for infants while she is away eating elsewhere . |
| 29 | Sitting in the foyer of their Salzburg hotel — between ‘ shoots ’ , obviously — Paul , guitarist brother Niall and drumming hair bear Ashley Keating are gulping down mineral water , babbling on about the ‘ fierce ’ sights of Austria and generally behaving like men who are having a blinking good time , thank record companies very much . |
| 30 | He was tearing Germany apart and already preparing for war , the Jews being his first victims . |