Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She started shivering and sneezing soon after we left Carlisle . |
| 2 | Claudia , sleeping hardly at all and eating only when a worried Myra stood over her , got through them as best she could . |
| 3 | Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens . |
| 4 | He took her hand between both his own , turning it palm upwards and gazing down as though he were a fortune-teller , searching the damp pinkness of her flesh for answers to all sorts of impossible questions . |
| 5 | My lungs exploded , imploded , exploded , imploded ; plumes of wet sand flew from my soles , rising as I sped on , falling in little curves and spattering back as I raced on into the distance . |
| 6 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 7 | It 's full to the damn brim with diamonds , glittering and gleaming away like they was alive . |
| 8 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 9 | Ian Lang can not remain complacently sitting on his hands in the face of an economic crisis which is damaging all our communities and condemning more than 80,000 Scots to long-term unemployment , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I was a little foolish in earlier years before the electric light , trying to read and sew by the light of an oil lamp and pressing on when I should have stopped and rested my eyes . |
| 11 | Barbara Stanwyck spent her whole career suffering and dying just because the dreamership could n't stand to see a woman come first . ’ |
| 12 | Tonight there will still be elderly people falling out of bed and dying alone because of lack of staff . ’ |
| 13 | Pin the lining to the pelmet with wrong sides facing , turning in the allowance after snipping and notching out as on the pelmet fabric ( fig.41 ) . |
| 14 | On and on it runs , ranging from staccato to legato , and becoming fortissimo when anybody is about to leave the house . |
| 15 | The gleam of insulating oil shone bright on the prominences of his face , dimming and brightening again as she moved past him to hunker down at his side . |
| 16 | Although by and large novices to the art of sevens , the Namibians — the worthy winners of the World Cup Sevens qualifying tournament in Catania , Sicily — provided a sample of the Southern African perception of the shortened version of the game : hard running , support and tackling rather than silky skill and stealth . |
| 17 | But ‘ Winters ’ hauled England up a second-half mountain , dragging his pack into overdrive and tackling non-stop as the Boks came out of a half-time huddle screeching defiance and ready to build on a 16–11 lead . |
| 18 | In recent years the habit of the All Blacks leaving together and returning together after a trip to Europe has disappeared . |
| 19 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 20 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 21 | They speak of opting out in the primary , secondary and further education sectors ; as for social services , they speak of monitoring and enabling rather than providing . |
| 22 | Another racking fit of coughing seized him , doubling him over and ending only when he retched up a gush of phlegm and blood . |
| 23 | They were enjoying themselves and laughing loudly when suddenly the door opened . |
| 24 | She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine . |
| 25 | He watched her all the way to the swing doors , her head of brown hair held high and bobbing slightly as her heels clipped the floor . |
| 26 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
| 27 | So whoever it was driving the silent car must have seen them before twisting the wheel , reversing against the dry grass and brambles , and driving away as quietly towards the castle and the village . |
| 28 | The delegates , numbering about 900 and representing more than 100,000 members , elected the union 's founder , Konstantin Trenchev , as president . |
| 29 | But it is also a more general process describing the interactive skills of policemen and women : the knowledge of when and in what situations it is appropriate to show sympathy , tolerance , and understanding rather than aggression and force . |
| 30 | The most reckless Squig Hunters even ride Squigs into battle , grabbing hold of the Squig 's tiny horns or ears , and bouncing along as the Squig leaps about . |