Example sentences of "and [v-ing] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was scarcely called upon to say a word as she talked , pale smoke drifting from her mouth and her nose and hanging in the light . |
| 2 | Her mother fastening Melanie 's coat snugly at the neck and tucking in a scarf . |
| 3 | Bradley finds it hard to imagine ‘ a stockbroker and a labourer screaming and bellowing in the wilds of Dorset ’ , but at the same time , he suspects that perhaps British men might get some benefit out of it . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 5 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 6 | We all had a whale of a time , drifting on the surface and drowning in the depths with the four fishermen . |
| 7 | She could be heard hawking and coughing in the upstairs bedroom . |
| 8 | All the children who were living far away , they brought a sandwich and a flask with them and eating in the desk in the classroom . |
| 9 | This is a basic 1 × 1 tuck on the back bed , with alternative needles tucking and knitting in every row . |
| 10 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 11 | The trial ended in November 1990 in Siegen ( Germany ) of a former SS officer Ernst August König , 71 , who was accused of killing eight gypsies and assisting in the murder of 1,067 others at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . |
| 12 | A 21-year-old woman is charged with benefiting from the proceeds of drugs and assisting in the laundering of £10,000 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Before long they lost the course of the brook , slipping across the moonlit patches as fugitives and halting in the bushes with raised ears and staring eyes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It would involve crawling out of a window while nobody was looking and trusting in the spirit of Christmas goodwill should we be discovered . |
| 17 | An ex-Portsmouth Polytechnic student who was told by her economics tutor that ‘ all girls who get through are going on to do shorthand and typing in the evening ’ . |
| 18 | Stephenson roared and howled with laughter , slapping his thigh and stamping in the mud . |
| 19 | For this one day a year , the usually gridlocked streets of New York were closed to traffic and lined with nearly three million people who proved that when the craziness and complexity is forgotten for 24 hours , they can be among the most decent and welcoming supporters of the human spirit they were witnessing and cheering in the runners thronging their streets . |
| 20 | But all the stamping and cheering in the Empress ballroom might almost have been a vain attempt to muffle the sound of hats flopping intermittently into the leadership ring . |
| 21 | Expert clauses often provide that the decision is to be final and binding in the absence of manifest error . |
| 22 | One day everyone was laughing and singing in the Delhi gardens , covering each other with pink powder and coloured Holi-water ; the next they had imprisoned themselves in the silent air-conditioned purdah of their bedrooms and offices , waiting patiently for the reprieve of evening . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll be up and singing in the morning , ’ he announced cheerily . |
| 24 | She attends Ropley School and enjoys dancing , horse riding and drama , as well as bell-ringing and singing in the Ropley Church choir . |
| 25 | The people are sick and tired of seeing on the television , hearing on the radio and seeing in the press the fairy stories that the Secretary of State keeps preaching from the Dispatch Box . |
| 26 | Praising Durkheim , Eliot had written about and summarized Max Müller 's attitude ( largely based on Sanskrit philology ) , which looked at primitive religion chiefly through its myths , finding in primitive deities personifications of larger forces of nature and seeing in the primitive mind a sentiment of wonder at such forces , a basic intuition of the ‘ infinite ’ . |
| 27 | I felt like shit and I was trying so hard not to think of Lewis and Verity that I could n't think about anything else , but the day was fabulous ; clear and cold , the sky crystal blue and reflecting in the waters of hill-cupped lochans and the glinting length of Loch Add . |
| 28 | Then they heard a terrible whistling and crackling in the forest : Baba Yaga was returning . |
| 29 | They took with them the word ‘ Tabernacle ’ which came to mean in architectural terms a building in rectangular shape , with a Greek temple frontage outside and inside , little decoration and preaching in the conservative , earthy , evangelistic and Calvinistic tradition . |
| 30 | The Council was clearly implying that ( as Newman saw ) Scripture itself works sacramentally , especially when it is made actual by effective reading and preaching in the liturgy . |