Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paused and beamed affably at his host once more . |
| 2 | She caught the barman 's eye and beamed contentedly at his hot red face as he sipped iced water , taking a brief rest . |
| 3 | Beat well until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl , then transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead well by stretching the dough away from you , using the heel of one hand to push it from the centre outwards . |
| 4 | Quickly beat in the gelatine to form a smooth dough and knead well in the bowl . |
| 5 | Turn out onto a lightly floured table top and knead thoroughly until smooth . |
| 6 | Turn into a lightly floured board and knead gently for a few minutes . |
| 7 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 8 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 9 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 10 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 11 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 12 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 13 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 14 | Pamella ! ’ and I 'm just freaking out and hanging on to Tim Taylor , trying to get to the plane , and I 'm wearing this scarf on my head to cover my face and they had pulled a straw — they said this ! — for who was going to tear the veil from my face and this fat guy got it and ripped it , pulled my hair , poked me in the eye — I was physically assaulted ! |
| 15 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 16 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 17 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 18 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 19 | Both boys immediately burst into peals of embarrassed laughter , and Tam ran shamefaced to his father 's side and whispered loudly in his ear in French : " Kim has brought Lan 's gibbon , Papa ! |
| 20 | So Zaria sat in the back , opened the glass screen and whispered frantically in my right ear all the way home . |
| 21 | I settled back in my seat , picked some dirt from my fingernails with a spare scythe blade , and whispered discreetly through the partition . |
| 22 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 23 | Instead the room was light and airy , lit by fluorescent lights and smelling pleasantly of air freshener . |
| 24 | The general purpose of exploratory statistics , as the name suggests , is to help investigators to take a good look at patterns in data and to search around for ideas about the form these patterns take . |
| 25 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 26 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 27 | The car wallowed around the last bend in the descent and cruised across in front of the school gates leaving two trails of dust behind . |
| 28 | They ate a few grains , ignored the rest , and cruised back into their hiding places again . |
| 29 | They are high speed and fun , cutting through the water with little wake , and are raced and cruised all around the UK . |
| 30 | They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath . |