Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 2 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 3 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 4 | Spectators , wandering along the pony lines , were amused to watch Fantasma , who 'd been muzzled to stop her savaging anyone , standing on her two front legs and lashing out with both back ones . |
| 5 | Some residents enjoy being useful and helping out with domestic tasks , and a good Home encourages this . |
| 6 | Three months later she joined C&R on a full-time basis , although throughout her maternity leave she had been attending meetings and helping out on special project work . |
| 7 | The interviewing panel of Horsley , Pilger and Hayling , with Kerry Brown and Maxine Johnson representing the Founders , was supplemented by Christine Jackson , sitting in and limbering up for Equal Opportunities . |
| 8 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 9 | All of this leads Fred and Beth to worry that the fatal combination of an explosion of ‘ free time ’ with a booming global market in consumer goods and leisure industries will spell the death of their great utopian dream that they have cherished for so long — individual self-realization , mutuality in work and levelling out of global economic inequalities . |
| 10 | Of those that did turn up at their parish churches , a good number behaved in a manner that was anything but reverential : talking , joking , spitting , arguing , and catching up on lost sleep . |
| 11 | You 're listening to B B C Radio Oxford and Talking Sport , seventeen minutes past five is the score , and hopefully we 'll be going back to White Hart Lane shortly and catching up with some of the players . |
| 12 | The next day a series of fighter attacks was launched against Palestinian positions , killing as many as 20 guerrillas and wounding up to 60 other people , including a group of 10 schoolchildren in Abra . |
| 13 | On Dec. 6 a bomb destroyed the Department of National Security ( DAS ) headquarters in Bogotá , killing 67 people and wounding up to 800 others . |
| 14 | Am I right in saying Women 's Institute , do n't they go round and checking up on sorry erm footpaths ? |
| 15 | If people are leaving severed heads in fonts and monkeying about with regimental relics after hours they 'd need keys and naturally it 's awkward for Charles if … ’ |
| 16 | Prime Minister Vitold Fokin , however , took the offensive at the parliamentary session on July 3 , condemning attempts by parliament to interfere in government affairs , threatening the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers , and walking out with all but two of his ministers . |
| 17 | For the best way to job-hunt in Europe is by going to the country of your choice for a few weeks and signing up with several private employment agencies . |
| 18 | Implementation is for planning and installing hardware and software , producing documentation and training , a handover to new systems and winding down of old systems . |
| 19 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
| 20 | Minutes later , Rachel was running out on to the road , hailing a taxi and driving off into Central . |
| 21 | By keeping double taxation to a minimum and cracking down on phoney transfer pricing , these international arrangements have helped boost the efficient allocation of capital worldwide . |
| 22 | And best of all , inevitably , the celestial ‘ Car Wash Hair ’ is included here , where the band successfully sound like an entire orchestra swapping instruments mid-song , just about keeping their cool and gliding off into deep melody space , against the odds , with real elegant chaos . |
| 23 | They are tailing unmarked police cars to stake outs and listening in on secret frequencies . |
| 24 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
| 25 | She kicked off her shoes on the carpet , and slid back silently to listen down the well of the staircase ; and picking up from this level only minor and ambiguous sounds , she went quickly down again one floor , to where she could lean cautiously over the glossy black banister , and train both eyes and ears upon any activity in the hall below . |
| 26 | Porters South is a former three-storey beer-bottling plant , built in brick and dating back to 1904 . |
| 27 | We discussed erm erm other places for people to meet et cetera has actually been closed down , some some problem with the is n't it , erm but they ca n't use it for the public so erm that was , it was just left that we 'll have another meeting in March and looking around for alternative places to meet , but that 's all to report on that . |
| 28 | Several unions , conscious that their membership had fallen in recent years and looking round for new areas of recruitment , homed in on " non-standard " workers . |
| 29 | He soon spotted several well-dressed young women who strolled up and down their particular stretch of pavement , faltering and looking up with decorous winsomeness when a likely man passed . |
| 30 | She was shortish and had an attractive way of cocking her head on one side and looking up with big dark eyes and a wryly amused smile . |