Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob stayed away from home every evening , pursuing old Hitchcock films he had seen before to art cinemas in Kilburn , Tooting , and Putney , and eating cheaply in Indian and Cypriot restaurants . |
| 2 | And within 60 seconds , Marco Gabbiadini made it three to the Rams , racing clear and firing home from 12 yards . |
| 3 | Choosing and accepting freely from various sources . |
| 4 | The issue of January 29 , 1972 offered readers a taster of the future in the shape of a small box proclaiming ‘ We 're Freaking Out At NME ’ and hinting arcanely at big changes afoot . |
| 5 | The males responded by puffing up their chests and circling slowly towards each other . |
| 6 | It is worth making an important demand early on in the negotiations and sticking close to this position thus making the other party have to work hard to squeeze concessions out of you . |
| 7 | Now that a new season is upon us , I and a lot of other Carrick supporters were looking forward with very much optimism and excitement to challenging and competing seriously in all competitions . |
| 8 | It was literally carbonized , lacking a roof and rattling noisily upon four tyreless rims . |
| 9 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 10 | And walking together on thick-carpeted stairs , hand trailing a blackened balustrade , beams in the ceiling . |
| 11 | You will be feeling ruthless and ambitious and walking all over those who drag their heels . |
| 12 | From this mockery they are unable to set free the immortal soul , even after it has attained wisdom , and believe it to be proceeding unceasingly to false blessedness and returning unceasingly to true misery … . |
| 13 | Will the few surviving traditionalists who wore Pakamacs first time round , dripping and steaming simultaneously on forlorn summer holidays or jeered unmercifully at school , take to bright colours ? |
| 14 | Yet we all know , even if we submit to this approach as a temporary — and perhaps very fruitful — measure , that there is more to using language , and communicating successfully with other people , than being able to produce correct sentences . |
| 15 | This is another of the SAAF 's original 58 aircraft , being taken on charge in July 1944 and serving initially with 28 Squadron . |
| 16 | For days Grom lay moaning and groaning as at first the Troll 's regenerative abilities outpaced his own ability to digest it and then his stomach gradually gained ground . |
| 17 | It was only as we were doing this and grinning inanely at each other that I noticed the red Transit van turning out of the other end of the street . |
| 18 | It is a gradual process , starting out from where teachers and children are and developing little by little , under their control , at a pace both feel comfortable with . |
| 19 | — who said he was beginning to enjoy his retirement and looking forward to many more years to come . |
| 20 | Everybody in the squad is looking good , and looking forward to this one . ’ |
| 21 | I wasted no time in entering the assembly area and rejoining the cheerful gang of visitors , buoyed up by the welcome infusion of champagne and looking forward to more . |
| 22 | He stood for a few moments thinking , and looking apprehensively from one stallion to the other . |
| 23 | The wintry sun , pale yellow and barely warm , hung above the new towers at Westminster , still with their fuzzy outline of scaffolding and looking more like giant columnar trees than a work of man . |
| 24 | They suggested the reasons were trying to find out who was speaking and looking quickly from one person to another with rising anxiety . |
| 25 | The legislature was condemned as unrepresentative , as an institution dominated by a minority of rural and small town based conservatives , usually from the South , out of touch with the needs of the majority , located largely outside the South and living mainly in urban areas . |
| 26 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 27 | ‘ In both communities , there are terrorists meeting and plotting outrages , using cars and houses , moving about and acting suspiciously in various ways . |
| 28 | ‘ In both communities , there are terrorists meeting and plotting outrages , using cars and houses , moving about and acting suspiciously in various ways . |
| 29 | Far ahead of Sharpe was the crossroads itself where the dark mass of fugitives was milling in confusion , while to the right , and acting somewhat as another bastion , was a smaller wood and a handful of cottages . |
| 30 | And waking suddenly like that , you woke in a thousand different places at once , all the places that you 'd ever been . |