Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 2 | ‘ Office girls were screaming uncontrollably and walking about in a daze with blood pouring from them , ’ said witness Helen Millican . |
| 3 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
| 4 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 5 | That 's what the law did four years ago when he was training to win his silver in Seoul and driving about in a car supplied by the British Olympic Association . |
| 6 | The band , forced to play covers of Beatles songs and American country music ( the staple diet of Rhodesian radio ) , immediately switched to traditional African songs written specifically about celebrating freedom and living together in a new country . |
| 7 | The gulls were in good voice , however , soaring and shrieking overhead in a fickle , shifting breeze , and Harry was surprised how contented if not downright happy he felt , sitting in the shelter nearest the clock and gazing out at the white horses in the bay . |
| 8 | Director PAUL VERHOEVEN tells EDWARD MURPHY about courting controversy and growing up in a nightmare , while KIM NEWMAN casts an eye over the overblown finished product |
| 9 | Then do various things , like putting your hands in the air , jumping up and down and going round in a circle , until eventually you go back in line . |
| 10 | ‘ Sunset in the Mediterranean way with fire and passion and going out in a blaze of glory , ’ he teased , grabbing at a blanket from the back of one of the wicker chairs on the terrace . |
| 11 | ‘ Followed by making love with fire and passion and going out in a blaze of glory — anywhere ! ’ he added with a laugh of pure cynicism . |
| 12 | Basinger evaded reporters and cameramen as she left the courthouse Wednesday , leaving by a sidedoor and rushing off in a black sedan . |
| 13 | Arranged around the photograph were bouquets of plastic flowers : virulent scarlet poppies with green leaves , straggly ivy , lemon tulips , alabaster roses — all out of season and radiating out in a baroque flurry from the central shrine . |
| 14 | The earlier trials suggest a characteristic of the following kind for a uniform ( card ) subject : — first a region in which all material is imperfectly seen , then a roughly linear region in which spreading takes place , then a gradual transition to flooding , seen as a super-linear increase in visible pixels with exposure and resulting finally in a complete whiteout , unless the illumination is too low . |
| 15 | Now this is people 's traditional expectation and they still have it , whereas we 're of the mind that instead of this er you 've very cleverly got in this circle and the last day that I suddenly realized that we 're all equal and moving around in a reasonably organized manner but still we 're rather loose , whereas the traditional view is a parish councillor says it and everybody does the rest , with a few er renegades and revolutionaries at varying parts in your parish . |
| 16 | He was then in his middle thirties , about ten years her senior , and doing well in a small way as a building contractor in New York and New Jersey . |
| 17 | A gearbox can be identified as providing a means of handling the power of an engine and doing so in a useful form to an output shaft . |
| 18 | But the noise and the traffic and the petrol fumes and the stress of getting around — occasionally I feel like just selling up , giving my designer-clothes to Oxfam , and starting again in a simple dress of dimity ’ |
| 19 | Between the parallel ranges lie a series of polja extending for over 640 km ( 400 miles ) and reaching inland in a belt 100 km ( 64 miles ) wide . |
| 20 | While Fiona was still on her way the medics stuffed Harry full of antibiotics and other palliatives and put stitches where they were needed , and by the time she 'd wept briefly in my arms he was warm and responding nicely in a recovery room somewhere . |
| 21 | Erm we 're very good at lot of plans , practical working , and carrying out in a specific way . |
| 22 | Then you 'd get a bunch of compulsory emigrants , once in a while , Indians or Chinese , all wearing identical pyjamas and shuffling along in a crowd . |
| 23 | It should be noted that the etch-resist is sensitive to ultraviolet light only , and processing indoors in a subdued light should not cause any problems . |