Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a turquoise stone set in a pendant and hanging from a fine gold chain at Debbie 's throat . |
| 2 | Rowed by a team of friends she was soon alongside , aboard and tucking into a substantial breakfast . |
| 3 | Probing , listening and reacting in a constructive , professional , nonjudgemental manner . |
| 4 | Billy Wilder 's movie was a cynical , lacerating indictment of this hollow self-image , narrated by a corpse and centring on a vampish silent star who was thought long dead . |
| 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 | Maggie glared at him but he bent again and locked the Porsche , pocketing the key and shrugging into a thick leather jacket . |
| 7 | Duties are changing and accumulating at a faster rate than they can be successfully discharged . |
| 8 | Human-sized , and resting on a wheeled platform , the puppet is operated by a shaman through wires and levers extending some six feet behind it . |
| 9 | Brother Winfrid , big and young and wholesome , was leaning on his spade at the edge of the vegetable patch beyond , and gazing after a diminutive figure that was just scuttling away round the corner of the box hedge towards the great court . |
| 10 | But the alternative of taking our clothes off on this nippy morning , and wading across a fast-flowing , icy river with our clothes on our heads , was not an attractive one . |
| 11 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 12 | First seen alongside Neneh Cherry , singing and standing on her head with the early-Eighties cult dance band Rip Rig And Panic , Andrea Oliver has since sung with a variety of outfits and , in between organising and cooking for a weekly night at West London 's Globe club , has recently joined forces with Malcolm Joseph ( previously with soul band Seventh Heaven ) to form new band , Her . |
| 13 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There were strict controls over the export of capital and the City 's ability to invest abroad ( outside the group of countries known as the Overseas Sterling Area and consisting to a large extent of former members of the Empire ) was restricted . |
| 16 | Our equipment , brought solely for a ‘ recce ’ and consisting of a seven mm rope and two ice screws , suddenly seemed a little inadequate . |
| 17 | Stamford , one of Hoskins ' ‘ open-field ’ towns , is actually made up of a Danish burgh , founded in 877 on the north side of the River Welland and consisting of a roughly rectangular block bisected by the east-west High Street , and an English burgh to the south of the river founded by King Edward in 918 , and consisting of a neat rectangular area bisected by the north-south St Martins High Street . |
| 18 | One day she may be left alone and weeping in a cold grey city with people who do not care . ’ |
| 19 | Nathaniel Sherman stumbled slightly at the entrance of his hut , and his wife heard him cursing and fumbling for a long time with the flap fastenings . |
| 20 | She hoped that perhaps Faye would speak her misgivings aloud that the dress was really far too sophisticated and daring for a humble nurse at her employer 's Christmas party . |
| 21 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Time and again , witnesses told parliamentary commissions that women workers were either girls living at home with their parents and contributing to a multi-income household , or that if married , they were earning " pocket money " . |
| 24 | A number of our teachers are particularly interested in the field of SPECIAL NEEDS , attending , organising and contributing to a wide range of in-service training to update their knowledge through lectures , seminars , workshops etc . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | and squeaking like a wet balloon ? |
| 27 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 28 | He imagined this woman draped on Humphrey Bogart 's arm and walking into a seedy bar . |
| 29 | It was like the feeling he used to get when he played another game from his childhood ; that of closing his eyes and walking for a certain number of steps along , say , a wide path in a park . |
| 30 | Parking one 's car at night and walking through a dark garage block can be a hazard . |