Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the wall stood a rattan couch with cushions ; and hanging from a bracket by the open french windows was a small brightly polished bell with a faded maroon tassel hanging from the clapper . |
| 2 | And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver . |
| 3 | Her mother fastening Melanie 's coat snugly at the neck and tucking in a scarf . |
| 4 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 5 | And at 6.15 Miss Danziger entered the drawing-room , where at least eighteen of the guests were gathered drinking tea and eating from a selection of Danish pastries and pies , and talking with unusual excitement . |
| 6 | although many famous names were missing from the register : notably Moffatt , Nadin , Legrand ( already sure of retaining his crown and recovering from a knee operation ) , Rabatou , Godoffe , Cortijo and Edlinger . |
| 7 | She may be under stress and reacting with a tantrum . |
| 8 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 9 | A deserted European quarter is twinned with an African settlement out in a desert ‘ white and glimmering like a salt spill , without a blade of grass ’ . |
| 10 | The film is therefore built up in pieces , a process which makes particular demands of an actor — who is also vulnerable to technical problems with cameras , lighting and editing in a way which is quite removed from the stage actor 's experience . |
| 11 | Hence the comfort from eating , sucking sweets or a pipe , and drawing on a cigarette . |
| 12 | More recently , Russian philologists have proposed a super-family of languages , bigger than Indo-European and deriving from a proto-language ( Nostratic ) twice as old . |
| 13 | Sally stood up , letting the towel drop and shrugging on a silk wrap . |
| 14 | But if the profit was earned by the exploitation of property assets as by letting property , lending money or dealing in commodities or securities by buying and reselling at a profit , the profit will have arisen in or derived from the place where the property was let , the money was lent or the contracts of purchase and sale were effected . |
| 15 | A suitable mix of exercise includes cycling on an ergometer , stepping up and down a two-step climb , a variety of arm and leg exercises using dumb-bells or fixed-weight training equipment and jogging on a mini-trampoline . |
| 16 | A cold gazpacho soup accompanied by hot , crusty garlic bread and followed by several special salads was on the menu for tonight , and Belinda arrived in the kitchen just as Mrs Porter was garnishing with parsley a deliciously chunky bowl of boneless chicken , artichokes , avocados , celery and cashew nuts coated in a tangy dressing and resting on a bed of purplish mignonette lettuce . |
| 17 | In that case it was argued , unsuccessfully , that the construction manager 's decision was final and binding as a valuation . |
| 18 | Reportedly it is seeking fellow travellers and financing for a Chorus project lilting code named Amadeus , having already used Wolfgang and Mozart to christen other projects . |
| 19 | Within hours of the verdicts there was violence and looting on a scale not seen in the city since the Watts riots of 1965 . |
| 20 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
| 21 | It has identified a problem and has worked out a solution probably by trial and error ; and the solution has involved the making and using of a tool . |
| 22 | If terrestrial zodiacs ore the product of our own imagination , we can either dismiss them as pure delusion , or work positively with the same idea , seeing their description and charting as a work of art in its own right . |
| 23 | In the old days it had all seemed worth it — she 'd enjoyed filling stockings and wading through a carpet of toys and dressing the tree and singing carols when they were little . |
| 24 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 25 | The name Empire Flying-boat rings with nostalgia and is linked forever with exotic destinations , superb food , attentive service and surfing to a halt on one of Africa 's great lakes or the brilliant waters of a tropical sea . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm on my feet a lot of the day — washing and cooking for a man keeps me busy ’ |
| 27 | A feminist psychologist 's interview with and administering of a questionnaire to a young woman have stronger demand characteristics than they would have with a woman her own age . |
| 28 | How about stretching one over your partner 's nipples or clitoris and sucking through a bubble of rubber ? |
| 29 | Her own perception of herself ( courageous , persistent , and sticking to a course no matter how unpopular ) is matched by the public perception , according to Gallup surveys on the personality images of various leading British politicians . |
| 30 | In the prototype , the battery was housed by folding the tie lining around it , and fastening with a staple . |