Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the wall stood a rattan couch with cushions ; and hanging from a bracket by the open french windows was a small brightly polished bell with a faded maroon tassel hanging from the clapper . |
| 2 | And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver . |
| 3 | I was scarcely called upon to say a word as she talked , pale smoke drifting from her mouth and her nose and hanging in the light . |
| 4 | and hanging around the street cos then that will |
| 5 | Because we boys used to like the windbound lying and talking and in the galley and smelling of the coming from the galley , all the saucepans and things like that . |
| 6 | Her mother fastening Melanie 's coat snugly at the neck and tucking in a scarf . |
| 7 | Animals appeared to be bounding and bellowing around the room . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 9 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 10 | She could n't risk slipping on the wet surface of the stones and pitching into the river . |
| 11 | When chipping and pitching into the wind , the ball will settle down more quickly and the stroke must be quite positive , with a quite noticeable acceleration through impact . |
| 12 | The left-hander just avoided a caught-and-bowled to Malcolm 's left hand , but when Gooch brought Salisbury on , this time at the Nursery end , and pitching into the legside rough , he spun one right across Salim Malik to have him caught at gully . |
| 13 | She could be heard hawking and coughing in the upstairs bedroom . |
| 14 | Many microorganisms enter the body via the respiratory tract and those who have colds , for example , should minimise the spray from their sneezing and coughing by the use of a paper tissue which can be disposed of safely after one use . |
| 15 | They acknowledge that elephants and man , for instance , have a very close relationship , having climbed the evolutionary ladder side by side , losing hair together , returning to and re-emerging from the sea again , growing warm blood , emotion and long memories . |
| 16 | Power is seen as residing in office , and stemming from the bureaucrat 's high social prestige and wide discretion to act within very broadly defined colonial policies . |
| 17 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 18 | I shall return to the opposition between speech and eating toward the end of this paper . |
| 19 | All the children who were living far away , they brought a sandwich and a flask with them and eating in the desk in the classroom . |
| 20 | And at 6.15 Miss Danziger entered the drawing-room , where at least eighteen of the guests were gathered drinking tea and eating from a selection of Danish pastries and pies , and talking with unusual excitement . |
| 21 | although many famous names were missing from the register : notably Moffatt , Nadin , Legrand ( already sure of retaining his crown and recovering from a knee operation ) , Rabatou , Godoffe , Cortijo and Edlinger . |
| 22 | Kit ordered Ariel brought , so that the islanders could see she was as well as could be expected , and recovering from the wound to her thigh . |
| 23 | This is a basic 1 × 1 tuck on the back bed , with alternative needles tucking and knitting in every row . |
| 24 | The Requalification team began to work closely with the co-ordinator and the authors , identifying the criteria to be achieved and monitoring and assisting with the progress documents . |
| 25 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 26 | The trial ended in November 1990 in Siegen ( Germany ) of a former SS officer Ernst August König , 71 , who was accused of killing eight gypsies and assisting in the murder of 1,067 others at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . |
| 27 | A 21-year-old woman is charged with benefiting from the proceeds of drugs and assisting in the laundering of £10,000 . |
| 28 | It is often helpful to create several small files ( 5-10 entries maximum ) with varying layouts and indexing as an aid to discussion at the design stage . |
| 29 | She may be under stress and reacting with a tantrum . |
| 30 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |