Example sentences of "and [v-ing] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a medium tension and hanging a weight on the scarf as it is being knitted will make it curl more easily . |
| 2 | Lisabeth was sitting apart from them reading a newspaper and eating a bar of chocolate . |
| 3 | The Lord Llewellyn , sitting beneath a brocade canopy and eating a bowl of figs , eyed the pageant with a mixture of amusement and contempt . |
| 4 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 5 | A girl in a duffel coat and jeans was taking an early lunch in the corner , reading a magazine and eating a sandwich from an open plastic container on the seat beside her . |
| 6 | While they waited in the room , which was furnished like a nursing home , with the child reading a comic on the bed and eating a bag of shortbread biscuits , she thought that it was as well to be next door to the railway station in case she had to get away quickly . |
| 7 | The Guardian can now declare : ‘ No successful capitalist economy has been developed without the state sponsoring an entrepreneurial class , designing and encouraging a network of supportive institutions and actively intervening in the management of the economy . ’ |
| 8 | The government 's strategy increasingly appears to be one not of reducing expenditure but of containing the rise in costs , targeting benefits on the most needy , and encouraging a redistribution of the burden to the private sector . |
| 9 | It condemned the 1812 constitution root and branch and suggesting a return to the ‘ traditional ’ constitution . |
| 10 | Rupert , left alone with Ianthe and Penelope , found himself heaving a sigh of relief , flopping down into a chair , and suggesting a cup of tea . |
| 11 | There were two other letters that she thought might interest John , one on the subject of salary being paid during illness , and suggesting a code of employment , and the other about National Health Insurance . |
| 12 | This consists of measuring or estimating financial factors such as cost or profit associated with the products being considered and drawing a histogram of money against product or element type . |
| 13 | This consists of measuring or estimating financial factors such as cost or profit associated with the products being considered and drawing a histogram of money against product or element type . |
| 14 | Outside , various drag queens spill out of the gay bar across from the gig and teeter down the road on high heels flashing passing motorists and drawing a barrage of horns in reply . |
| 15 | She was stroking her big dog , Keeper , with one hand , and drawing a picture with the other . |
| 16 | Shelley suddenly swung his luminous face towards me , sat quickly down on a chair , sticking out one leg and resting a hand on his thigh , clearly inviting me to hold the floor awhile . |
| 17 | Firstly , he is clearly operating within the area of ‘ emancipatory interest ’ and maintaining a position within critical theory . |
| 18 | This meant actually producing and maintaining a series of questions directed at the CEGB 's expert witnesses , most of whom had clearly spent many hours going through every conceivable pitfall . |
| 19 | Yet he boasts of having already arranged more than 70 kidney transplants , and maintaining a list of 50 donors awaiting their turn . |
| 20 | 5.2 The Project Manager shall also be responsible setting up and maintaining a mechanism by which operational changes in the Project thought necessary by any of the Parties are submitted to the Project Committee for approval . |
| 21 | The Eden Valley Hospice is nearing completion in Carlisle ; the Branch therefore decided to donate 10,000 to the Hospice Appeal for the purpose of furnishing and maintaining a room in the hospice and ensuring that the RAFA Club at Harraby is not forgotten . |
| 22 | When four Poitevin knights were taken prisoner by Richard 's Angevin grandfather Count Geoffrey Plantagenet they won their release by composing and singing a song in praise of their captor . |
| 23 | Other than a girl he had seen at a spinning-wheel and singing a song in the Gaelic at Nairn , this was Johnson 's first true contact with the Scots of the west . |
| 24 | The thrill of coming out of Oxford Circus tube and seeing a pile of me at the news-stand was pretty hard to beat . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't believe these beds , ’ groaned Billie , throwing her case on hers and seeing a cloud of dust rising from it . |
| 26 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
| 27 | Things like understanding the coins in your hand and the meaningless greeting of a shopping like predicting the traffic behaviour and using a telephone without reading the instructions . |
| 28 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 29 | It made counter-proposals on March 31 which called for the constitution to be drafted and adopted by a 400-member body elected on the basis of " one-person-one-vote " and using a system of proportional representation . |
| 30 | Following the principle of decorum ( to be found , for instance , in Horace 's Ars Poetica ) , the classical view was that the style which dealt with serious matters had to be non-realistic , in the sense of systematically eliminating references to everyday life and using a type of language much more elaborate and re fined than that of everyday usage ; non-serious subjects could be dealt with realistically , in ordinary language , but on no account could the different levels of style be mixed together . |