Example sentences of "and [v-ing] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her mother fastening Melanie 's coat snugly at the neck and tucking in a scarf . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 4 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 5 | She could be heard hawking and coughing in the upstairs bedroom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is a basic 1 × 1 tuck on the back bed , with alternative needles tucking and knitting in every row . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A 21-year-old woman is charged with benefiting from the proceeds of drugs and assisting in the laundering of £10,000 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The film is therefore built up in pieces , a process which makes particular demands of an actor — who is also vulnerable to technical problems with cameras , lighting and editing in a way which is quite removed from the stage actor 's experience . |
| 13 | It would involve crawling out of a window while nobody was looking and trusting in the spirit of Christmas goodwill should we be discovered . |
| 14 | An ex-Portsmouth Polytechnic student who was told by her economics tutor that ‘ all girls who get through are going on to do shorthand and typing in the evening ’ . |
| 15 | Stephenson roared and howled with laughter , slapping his thigh and stamping in the mud . |
| 16 | But all the stamping and cheering in the Empress ballroom might almost have been a vain attempt to muffle the sound of hats flopping intermittently into the leadership ring . |
| 17 | Expert clauses often provide that the decision is to be final and binding in the absence of manifest error . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll be up and singing in the morning , ’ he announced cheerily . |
| 19 | The people are sick and tired of seeing on the television , hearing on the radio and seeing in the press the fairy stories that the Secretary of State keeps preaching from the Dispatch Box . |
| 20 | Praising Durkheim , Eliot had written about and summarized Max Müller 's attitude ( largely based on Sanskrit philology ) , which looked at primitive religion chiefly through its myths , finding in primitive deities personifications of larger forces of nature and seeing in the primitive mind a sentiment of wonder at such forces , a basic intuition of the ‘ infinite ’ . |
| 21 | Then they heard a terrible whistling and crackling in the forest : Baba Yaga was returning . |
| 22 | They took with them the word ‘ Tabernacle ’ which came to mean in architectural terms a building in rectangular shape , with a Greek temple frontage outside and inside , little decoration and preaching in the conservative , earthy , evangelistic and Calvinistic tradition . |
| 23 | The Council was clearly implying that ( as Newman saw ) Scripture itself works sacramentally , especially when it is made actual by effective reading and preaching in the liturgy . |
| 24 | In other corners and other rooms , dozens of other topics floated gaily on the lively , slightly choppy waters , their pennants bobbing and fluttering in the end-of-year , the terminal breeze : the approaching steel strike , the brave new era of threatened privatization , the abuse of North Sea oil resources , the situation in Afghanistan , the Annan report , the prospect of a fourth television channel , the viability of Charles 's attempt to conquer the United States , the Cambridge Apostles , the disarray of the Labour Party , the deplorable vogue for Buck 's Fizz as a party drink , the Yorkshire Ripper , the Harrow Road murderer , the Prince of Wales . |
| 25 | Mary tottered up on her perch from side to side but nothing wiped the mild , sweet benignity from her doll 's face as she dropped the dew of her mercy down from heaven on the mortal exiles below wailing and weeping in the vale of tears . |
| 26 | The sun was beginning to set when Hazel woke to see Acorn listening and sniffing in the silence , between two white-skinned flints . |
| 27 | As I stood there clutching my ‘ Janet and John ’ , I could hear the typewriter clanking and rattling in the distance . |
| 28 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 29 | Creams or ointments containing steroids often help reduce the inflammation and itching in the skin but should n't be used for long periods of time . |
| 30 | With the Fokker lurching and shuddering in the storm I unfastened my safety-belt , staggered up to the pilot 's cockpit and was finally able to bellow into ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan 's ear that the mail had been left behind . |