Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 2 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 3 | Just a scrape and snipping off a polyp . ’ |
| 4 | It 's only a minor op , after all , and snipping off a polyp , so I do n't think I shall bother to go up tonight — we 're far too busy here , and anyway , my father will be there , and I do n't really think she 's expecting me , so I 'll wait until tomorrow — ’ |
| 5 | The accident happened at about 7:40am when the lorry , travelling towards Stirling , crossed the central reservation and hit the car , which was heading towards Glasgow , before plunging off the motorway and careering down an embankment and landing on the A883 Denny-Falkirk road . |
| 6 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 7 | One night , bumping into the doorway , and stepping over a colleague , I made my way out into the sleet , the toilets all being occupied , and as I crouched , steadying my cheek against the cold planks , I peered through the reeking shadows of Auschwitz and saw that the nearest ruins were fuming more than ever and had even begun to glow . |
| 8 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 9 | So , so th th that would be some of the thinking which would lie behind sitting down and , and and drawing up a , a reform document a land reform document , in the very late nineteen forties . |
| 10 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 11 | Alphonse Blaguet , a mediator appointed by President André Kolingba , was charged with setting up a preparatory committee , consulting with political parties and drawing up the agenda . |
| 12 | The ward sister co-ordinates all these functions , ensuring the ward has adequate supplies and drawing together the particular team members required to help an individual patient . |
| 13 | There is a sort of club called ‘ Natter and Noggin' where the artists exhibit pictures , and you can get cathedral tearoom sort of food . |
| 14 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 15 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 16 | Bending and whipping up the wicker basket full of odd garments , Aggie nodded hastily towards the girl , saying , ‘ Ta , lass . |
| 17 | Sort of looking out of your window and seeing just a blank concrete wall in front of you , day after day after day . |
| 18 | The major professional influence in his career , he later claimed , was meeting the publicity agents for Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show and seeing how the Americans managed the media . |
| 19 | But before we do , there are one or two more things that the Creation 6 program can do for us regarding visualising the actual knitted fabric and seeing how the design is treated by the console on receiving the computer information . |
| 20 | This chapter will be concluded by looking at the so called " rescue cases " and seeing how the various doctrines apply . |
| 21 | Away from her mother and father and sister and grandmother was bad enough , but the worst thing for Belle was opening her eyes and seeing only the walls around her . |
| 22 | They held that ‘ … the epistles of the Apostle [ Paul ] ought to be rejected altogether , calling him a renegade from the Law ; and using only the ‘ Gospel of the Hebrews ’ , they treated the rest with scant respect' . |
| 23 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 24 | The Company continued to hope for better times ; its monopoly was left intact under Charles II and James II , and it did not realize how the deterioration of its forts in West Africa was eating up its capital and bringing closer the day when large sums would have to be spent on rebuilding them . |
| 25 | They are still occupying the lower status jobs , and bringing up a family has often meant interruptions to education or professional training . |
| 26 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 27 | The purpose of this module is to provide the opportunity to explore questions of having and bringing up a family , to develop knowledge and skills in being a parent in areas selected on the basis of each individual 's needs and interests , and to help people enjoy being parents . |
| 28 | And bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognised at once as those who , like herself and Claud , had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right . |
| 29 | The Leader , following in the track of the horses , went some paces ahead scanning the forest on either side ; behind him followed Hugh , walking close by Marian 's side ; still further back , together but with the width of the track between them , were Michael and the thin man ; and bringing up the rear was Crane , the young man who had run after the horses . |
| 30 | The Whaddon and Mitchley Scouts and Guides band wound its tuneless way along the High Street , followed by six young girls lethally wielding pom-poms — the Mentle Motors Majorettes — and bringing up the rear , Reg Pybus ' Bedford minibus in which , crammed like sardines , the new team sat invisible behind the heavily steamed up windows . |