Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bodice was plain and ribbed to the waist , and hanging from two loops at the side was a fine red suede belt . |
| 2 | On very special nights he was allowed to stand beside her hot tub in a steamy bathroom heated by a small portable fire and smelling of sweet herbs . |
| 3 | It was me , yelling and bellowing in high-speed transports of pleasure . |
| 4 | I look at both my sewing and knitting as wonderful gifts that I will never tire of . |
| 5 | The extended professional , on the other hand , is concerned with locating his classroom teaching in a broader educational context , comparing his work with that of other teachers , evaluating his own work systematically , and collaborating with other teachers . |
| 6 | The river fussed through the dale in a great hurry , foaming with impatience where boulders stood in its way and tumbling in joyous cascades where its channel fell in rocky shelves . |
| 7 | Behind Mrs Fitton 's head the rooks were now tossing and tumbling like blown leaves . |
| 8 | Any tinkering with conservation measures will be a bad sign , and backsliding on established gains a cause for real alarm . |
| 9 | They had stayed in the abbey kicking their heels and helping with administrative tasks to pay their way ; now , one of them was only too happy to take the letter and ride south with Corbett 's instructions ringing in his ears . |
| 10 | This includes manning tutorials , marking and commenting on assignments , and helping with residential schools . |
| 11 | Xerox Corp has introduced LiveBoard , a five-foot wide electronic blackboard — Americans call it a chalkboard : the LiveBoard , which sells for $49,500 , uses a wireless pen that writes directly on the surface , creating an electronic document that can be shared through ordinary telephone lines for simultaneous viewing and editing from remote locations ; it includes a 67 ’ interactive surface , 80486 processor and software that enables users to edit , colour , annotate , erase , save , retrieve and print whatever they have drawn on the LiveBoard . |
| 12 | I did n't see it for ages because I was too busy sticking an old rotten fence-post out through the slits in the pillbox , pretending it was a gun and firing at imaginary ships . |
| 13 | The super-sharp , non-clogging blades of this Draper Rasp Set are designed for fast cutting and shaping for all sorts of materials . |
| 14 | The many affinities of arrangement and drawing between British mosaics ( which , nevertheless , fail to show instances of identity ) tends to support this view , and , further , suggests the use of pattern books ( compendia ) . |
| 15 | There is not one boundary but many , varying in kind and degree of openness , each , perhaps , calling forth different competences and drawing upon different resources . |
| 16 | And it can encourage the tokenizing and co-opting of female psychologists and their work . |
| 17 | The misrepresentation and downplaying of class-based conflicts are pervasive . |
| 18 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 19 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |
| 20 | Around 3,000 Kuwaiti families were reported to have crossed over into Saudi Arabia on the first day , and many of them confirmed reports of widespread killing and looting by Iraqi forces . |
| 21 | Women have been central in the leadership , organisation and maintaining of these structures , dealing with health care , education , food production and distribution , the internal economy etc . |
| 22 | With Robert Deane he founded and supported a Sunday school in the parish of Holy Cross , which offered religious instruction and taught reading and singing to poor children , and much of his time was devoted to this cause . |
| 23 | There was dancing and singing at various points — the chatter and whir of castanets , the hoarse yelps and anguished arias of flamenco , the pistol-like crepitations of zapateado , the sharp slow hand-claps of café patrons calling waiters . |
| 24 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 25 | AS England 's most capped and successful scrum-half , Richard Hill could be forgiven for swapping his boots for a pair of slippers and gazing with fond memories at a trophy cabinet bulging with evidence of a career full of top honours . |
| 26 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 27 | Rotating through 180 degrees would produce a pattern for knitting from top to bottom and rotating through 45 degrees would produce a pattern for a diagonal or bias knit . |
| 28 | Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years … she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman . |
| 29 | Not like what they 've got to put up with now — ferreting round in the council bins for old take-aways and kipping in cardboard boxes . |
| 30 | These include involving relatively large numbers of local people in active neighbourhood roles and catering for disadvantaged groups such as the unemployed and individuals unable to obtain credit from conventional sources . |