Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 2 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 3 | Like most of my fellow white South Africans in the early days of contention , I did n't realise at the time that people like Peter Hian and Hassan Howa were looking further than we were , and seeing further ahead than our own claustrophobic horizons . |
| 4 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 5 | The adoral shields are long with a straight proximal edge and widening distally so that they separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 6 | The landlord will nevertheless wish to ensure that the premises are occupied and trading as soon as possible , particularly if they are located in a parade or shopping centre where the landlord 's adjoining premises could benefit from customers to the premises . |
| 7 | There is a clear sense of recession , with paler tones dominating at the top of the canvas and appearing further away than the more densely coloured foreground . |
| 8 | The Centre has its own library and conference rooms and has access to services for oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis and microsequencing as well as to powerful computer and database services . |
| 9 | In a union in which both the lobon-gur solution and the rice-salt solution had been taught , LGS was also preferred over the rice-salt therapy , despite the recognition by the mothers of the fact that children treated with the latter recovered from diarrhoea and vomiting more quickly than those treated with LGS . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you — ’ she began , but before she could finish , the little frog was leaping up and down , nodding its head and croaking so loudly that the girls were afraid someone would hear . |
| 11 | I 'm sure you can appreciate that people are wary about big-city developers coming in and turning everywhere upside-down because they know nothing about the area . ’ |
| 12 | Wild plants growing well where never before seen , and growing very well where only found in small clumps . |
| 13 | I delighted to know that the Medau Society is flourishing and going more strongly than ever in its fortieth year . |
| 14 | Since the Carlists were unlikely to accept any kind of power-sharing arrangement , it was less a question of making a political pact with them than of imposing the desired situation on them and limiting as far as possible their capacity to reject it . |
| 15 | The next day , instead of being calm and gentle to ride , he was frightfully excited and pulling much harder than ever before . |
| 16 | The right approach might possibly be along the lines of : ‘ How about the family closing ranks and getting together now that you need a little help ? ’ or ‘ Give us the pleasure of doing something for you for a change . ’ |
| 17 | And getting there slowly but surely . |
| 18 | The red bitch had returned , as insistent on food as ever , and limping only slightly as she trotted around , getting in the way , impeding Chola 's cooking . |
| 19 | Like most new companies , they were overtrading alarmingly and expanding so fast that there was never adequate working capital . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's awfully good of you to have come with me , ’ he said , feeling he should apologize for something , and kicking as powerfully as possible against the fancy that he was Philip . |
| 21 | City life could be improved by turning urban wastelands into parks , and providing better underground and light railway systems to ease road traffic congestion , says the survey . |
| 22 | So I lay naked in the rinsed airlessness of the room , waiting for She-She 's return , and wishing pretty earnestly that I had taken my chances with Moby . |
| 23 | Then he was back in the car and moving away almost before she 'd unlocked the door . |
| 24 | Either that or the better-heeled locals enjoy female singers wailing purposefully at their table and moving away only when handed money . |
| 25 | to , to having a collectivization policy an and moving forward so that immediately into socialism . |
| 26 | If I 'd been able to guess at the future , the turning point would have been right there — wheeling the ship around and moving as fast as possible away from anything to do with Fraxilly . |
| 27 | Both plays tell the universal and timeless tale of family relationships and how , when supposedly they are a place of union , harmony , love and protection , they are in fact in reality a source of discord and suffering more often than not . |
| 28 | He was sprinting for dear life across a carrot patch and doing quite well until one of the pieces caught up with him . |
| 29 | The 10-month-old Italians were said to be ‘ stable and doing as well as can be expected ’ at London 's Great Ormond Street children 's hospital . |
| 30 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |