Example sentences of "and [v-ing] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 2 | It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam . |
| 3 | Probing , listening and reacting in a constructive , professional , nonjudgemental manner . |
| 4 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |
| 5 | All cetaceans draw in fresh air through this nasal orifice down into their lungs , releasing it and drawing in a fresh supply whenever they return to the surface . |
| 6 | You can alter the numbers by : - 1 ) Highlighting the part you want to change with the mouse and typing in the new value ( the old value is automatically deleted ) . |
| 7 | Bands appear in the streets , and folklore groups are dancing and singing in the central reservations and gardens of Funchal . |
| 8 | It 's curious how someone like Pat Kane mixes being staunch SNP and singing in an American croon . |
| 9 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 10 | All round the coast fishing provided the chief by-employment , outranking both clothing and tinning in the south-eastern quarter of the county . |
| 11 | One day she may be left alone and weeping in a cold grey city with people who do not care . ’ |
| 12 | They called for Iraq to withdraw unconditionally from Kuwait and to pay reparations for damage done , while declaring that the Palestinian question was the " first issue for the Arab world " and incorporating in an eight-point " Doha declaration " a clear expression of " complete support " and " absolute help " for the " historic uprising of the Palestinian people " . |
| 13 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 14 | Whereas Types 1–4 , are all variants of the basic two-tier model of primary school management , in this type the coordinator and curriculum leaders represent a significant and formally recognized additional layer in the management structure , running their own meetings and development programmes , reporting back to the head and the staff as a whole , and contributing in a distinctive way to overall school policy . |
| 15 | The price wars that have left them bleeding and dying in the personal computer field this year are going to spread to the margin-rich personal computer server , Computer Reseller News predicts . |
| 16 | Walking and walking in the pissing rain . |
| 17 | To burst it now would be to risk the messiness of it re-grouping , possibly cloning itself across the infected area and returning in a small battalion . |
| 18 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 19 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 20 | Fielding and fogging In the above example Anne hears what Bill says , but does n't allow herself to get deflected from her purpose . |
| 21 | The Safety Commission of the International Air Transport Association , IATA , has recommended a partial ban aboard aircraft on electronic devices such as computer games made by Nintendo Co Ltd , to avoid interference with aircraft systems : it calls for a ban on the use of all passenger-carried electronic devices during taxi , takeoff , initial climb approach and landing in a confidential letter written by the committee and obtained by Reuters . |
| 22 | Smoke on the Water E5/6 6b , Woman in Chains E4/5 6a and Rigging in the Frigging Arête E4 6a . |
| 23 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 24 | The sun beating down on them and the children splashing and laughing in the shallow end . |
| 25 | THE woman believed to be the world 's oldest citizen celebrated her 118th birthday singing and laughing in an old folk 's home at Arles , in France . |
| 26 | After a poor night 's sleep , punctured by weird dreams from which she emerged coughing and aching in every joint , Julia woke on Monday morning to a suspicion that she might be really ill . |
| 27 | Long before I came to know north west Scotland I read an article in a yachting journal about sailing and climbing in the mountainous fiords of Norway . |
| 28 | present their ideas , experiences and understanding in a widening range of contexts which require an increasing awareness of audience and purpose ; |
| 29 | He unhitched his mare , and led her warily down the slope to the Goldbach stream , stumbling and shivering in the raw morning air . |
| 30 | Another aspect of this change is the erm the change in line fifty eight , where the business and saving in the current year carried forward has been increased to seven , nine , one , from five , nine , one , you can see in the report and you will see that |