Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 2 | Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden . |
| 3 | That night he took a midnight train to London , searched for her all day , and had his first demanding quarrel with her in a Chinese restaurant at five o'clock in the afternoon , blue-jowled with fear and tiredness , and smelling of the stale smells of travellers . |
| 4 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 5 | The helpful thread of Ariadne ; the artistic weavings of Arachne ; the spinning and snipping of the three Fates . |
| 6 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 7 | I 'm not a social eater and I hate talking and eating at the same time . |
| 8 | Here , at close quarters , the fitful , elusive silver congealed into the turgid brown flood she had seen upriver , a silent surge of water looking almost solid in its power , sweeping along leaves and branches and roots and swathes of weed in its eddies , gnawing away loose red layers of the soil along this near bank , and eating at the muddy rim of the path . |
| 9 | While I sulked in the tent , nursing my wounds and recovering from the thorough sandbagging , Mick was hatching a plan . |
| 10 | In deaf clubs and institutes throughout the country , there was also much fund-raising and knitting for the armed services . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr R. Mardle for painting a museum sign and helping with the interim layout ; |
| 13 | The easier alternative for video is to record the scene as a two-shot ( page 73 ) , the static nature of which can be relieved by discreetly zooming in and panning between the two speakers from time to time and then zooming back to the two-shot . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So but er the overseas fellow , You know I 'll consider just on the same level , and ofte Well I never saw any er what you 'd call bickering and biding between the black and the white student . |
| 16 | In sharp contrast , Art of the Persian Courts : Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection by Abodala Soudavar gives a survey of Iranian and Persian manuscript painting , calligraphy and drawing from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries ( £55 ) . |
| 17 | She also notes ways in which installations , referencing and drawing upon the mass media and a range of other cultural sources , tend to bridge the gap between fine art and popular culture , thereby challenging the idea of the single fixed meaning and , indeed , conventional assumptions involved in the ‘ making sense ’ of visual imagery . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 210 In all cases between landlord and tenant , as often as it shall happen that one half year 's rent shall be in arrear , and the landlord or lessor , to whom the same is due , hath right by law to re-enter for the non-payment thereof , such landlord or lessor shall and may , without any formal demand or re-entry , serve a writ in ejectment for the recovery of the demised premises , which service shall stand in the place and stead of a demand and re-entry ; and in case of judgment against the defendant for non-appearance , if it shall be made appear to the court where the said action is depending , by affidavit , or be proved upon the trial in case the defendant appears , that half a year 's rent was due before the said writ was served , and that no sufficient distress was to be found on the demised premises , countervailing the arrears then due , and that the lessor had power to re-enter , then and in every such case the lessor shall recover judgment and execution , in the same manner as if the rent in arrear had been legally demanded , and a re-entry made ; and in case the lessee or his assignee , or other person claiming or deriving under the said lease , shall permit and suffer judgment to be had and recovered on such trial in ejectment , and execution to be executed thereon , without paying the rent and arrears , together with full costs , and without proceeding for relief in equity within six months after such execution executed , then and in such case the said lessee , his assignee , and all other persons claiming and deriving under the said lease , shall be barred and foreclosed from all relief or remedy in law or equity , other than by bringing error for reversal of such judgment , in case the same shall be erroneous , and the said landlord or lessor shall from thenceforth hold the said demised premises discharged from such lease ; provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bar the right of any mortgagee of such lease , or any part thereof , who shall not be in possession , so as such mortgagee shall and do , within six months after such judgment obtained and execution executed pay all rent in arrear , and all costs and damages sustained by such lessor or person entitled to the remainder or reversion as aforesaid , and perform all the covenants and agreements which , on the part and behalf of the first lessee , are and ought to be performed . |
| 20 | Other developments , more modest in their expectations and deriving from the particular perception this or that group might have of the way in which Owen 's new view could be related to its own grievance or apprehension or aspiration , proceeded in parallel , propagated largely by the rapidly growing radical press which included a number of journals advocating Owenite ideas . |
| 21 | The result of these complex influences was a family model that carried heavily ideological concepts of what the distribution of power should be in the family and how sexuality should be expressed , interpreting , in particular , female sexuality as secondary , and deriving from the maternal instinct , and severely regulating childhood sexuality . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 23 | After departure of the 1620 to Sheffield , and depending on the good will of the driver , we managed to achieve many foot plate rides down to Wharf Lane and back as the train had to reverse into the down bay . |
| 24 | Each specialized trade was like an organ within an animal 's body , providing a function that benefited the whole and depending on the continued existence of the whole for its own survival . |
| 25 | However , subject to the normal exemptions and depending upon the individual employee 's particular circumstances , a liability to capital gains tax could arise on a subsequent disposal of the shares . |
| 26 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 27 | Harper was standing in his stirrups , pointing and cheering at the smaller wood to the right . |
| 28 | Briefly , these factors are : the total population of the area and the number of registered library members ; trends in book publishing — i.e. the number of new books published per annum , broken down by subjects ; the length of life of stock on the open shelves ( depreciation rate ) ; the risen costs of books and binding on the previous year 's fund ; and the range and condition of the existing stock . |
| 29 | What policy advice will the Home Secretary need on prison matters , for example the use of police cells and contracting with the private sector , which are distinct from the operations of the Prison Service , and by whom should it be given ? |
| 30 | Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade . |