Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She , and could , found she could not fly and laid there looking at the sky . |
| 2 | We 're all horrified by one another , we humans , and there 's an end to it , but I shall be a good boy and sit quietly stroking Hosanna who is , when all 's said and done , my only true friend . ’ |
| 3 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 4 | But when he has gone I buy another whisky , and sit there musing on being a crunched-up spring . |
| 5 | A greasy tub of lard with filthy hair and a red , unshaven face introduced himself as the keeper and became almost fawning when Benjamin informed him who he was . |
| 6 | It 's all right for me — I can close my eyes for a moment , and stroke my beard , and make little gasping noises to myself . |
| 7 | To avoid this the slurry can be agitated and treated aerobically using one of the commercial aerators available ensuring intimate mixing with air . |
| 8 | a rotary letterpress process printing from rubber or flexible plates and using fast drying inks . |
| 9 | Suit comes along and sits there sipping coffee . |
| 10 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 11 | The windows are richly dressed , though they do not lend themselves to the Kensington approach ; as with Thins , the interior has been face-lifted and made warmly welcoming . |
| 12 | Flowers visited by passerines are twisted such that they face back to the peduncle , on which the perching bird stands : hummingbird flowers differ in being tubular and sticking outwards making them readily accessible to hovering birds . |
| 13 | Further , the size of their herds could rise and fall dramatically depending upon the incidence of livestock diseases such as foot-and-mouth and rinderpest . |
| 14 | Pope also confirmed that Miller was widely read in high circles because when staying in Bath in 1743 , he wrote to the Earl of Marchmont about a meeting there with Lord Chesterfield who had told him that ‘ your Lordship is got a-head of all the Gardening Lords and that you have distanc 'd Lord Burlington and Lord Cobham in the true scientific parts , but he is studying before you and has here lying before him those Thesarurus 's from which he affirms you draw all knowledge , Miller 's Dictionaries . ’ |
| 15 | Winter colds with much sneezing , coryza and headache as if it would burst which is worse ( < ) motion , in a person who is chilly and wants to be warmly wrapped and has much aching in the bones . |
| 16 | The results are keyed in and validated locally using a ‘ cut-down ’ version of the reporter module . |
| 17 | But the nostalgia invokes the mythic existence of an interdependent and mutually supportive working class that was then broken up and scattered geographically forfeiting its cohesion and everyday solidarity for the false promises amenities an material improvements trading off its hopes of new of a truly better world for a bigger share in the spoils of the old one and the new fruits of the consumer society . |
| 18 | EACH GREENHOUSE WE SELL IS DESIGNED AND BUILT SPECIALLY DRAWING ON OUR LONG EXPERIENCE OF MEETING THE INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS OF OUR CUSTOMERS . |
| 19 | CAREFREE : But most girls are aware of the dangers of casual sex and want long lasting relationships |
| 20 | Paula picked up her try and moved aside waiting for him , flushed with pleasure at seeing a familiar face . |
| 21 | Egypt is a very humbling place , with its larger-than-life statues and obelisks serenely standing since before the time of Christ , and the mammoth pyramids whose blocks of stone weigh up to forty tons each ; this is a land which inspires constant awe and disbelief . |
| 22 | Situated a 5 minute walk from the centre of Fuschl , the hotel is surrounded by its own gardens and stands directly facing the lake . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ It is scandalous that some sports clubs in the region are happy to have women make the tea and coffee and provide home baking , yet they wo n't allow them to be full members . ’ |
| 24 | This was a showcase for a wide variety of young British musicians and bands currently working outside the mainstream of rock and pop . |
| 25 | To cap a highly successful conclusion to the season — in which the Berkshire side first out-matched defending champions David Lloyd , Heston and then , in the Grand Finals , beat the top seeds Ilkley — the club No. 1 Gary Drake was named the special Grand Finals ‘ Player-of-the-Tournament ’ by Wimbledon referee Alan Mills , and drove away smiling in a brand new £15,000 Vauxhall Astra convertible . |
| 26 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 27 | Why are you and Lash always fighting ? |
| 28 | At 4 pm the following afternoon he awoke and came downstairs asking for breakfast ! |
| 29 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 30 | She did not know that I was to be there and came forward saying : ‘ My dear Elizabeth , what a very nice surprise . |