Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |
| 2 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 3 | What she did see was hair the colour of rich , ruby port wine , swept up , somehow , from the forehead and hanging past her shoulders in a heavy , shining mass that curled under at the sides and bottom like a long page-boy bob . |
| 4 | These included the non-payment of military arrears , the excise tax , the slowness and excessive centralization of justice , tithes , and hanging for theft . |
| 5 | After the initiation of Clelia , she was to Clara less Surprising than she might otherwise have been , for the resemblance between mother and daughter was marked : the features were the same , though worn and lined by grooves deeper than mere wrinkles : the set of the conscious , curious head was the same , and the hair was the same , though streaked with white , and hanging with the benefits of expense , as well as of style . |
| 6 | Yvonne says , fanning her mouth and hanging onto my arm . |
| 7 | Australopithecus is alive and well and hanging round Pete 's Cafe . ’ |
| 8 | A wire stretched from the contraption at the top out towards the school and hanging from it was a dangerous-looking wooden basket , big enough to hold a single person . |
| 9 | The bodice was plain and ribbed to the waist , and hanging from two loops at the side was a fine red suede belt . |
| 10 | And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver . |
| 11 | There was a turquoise stone set in a pendant and hanging from a fine gold chain at Debbie 's throat . |
| 12 | Some of the houses stood out by dint of their brightly painted front doors but mostly the only sign of decoration was the washing on the lines and hanging from windows . |
| 13 | There are African masks and Polynesian sculptures bought at Sotheby 's ; goats ' skulls slung over doors ; and hanging from the walls are his own canvases — massive primitive paintings that he says are fertility symbols of women . |
| 14 | By the wall stood a rattan couch with cushions ; and hanging from a bracket by the open french windows was a small brightly polished bell with a faded maroon tassel hanging from the clapper . |
| 15 | It does this by gripping the silk with its back legs and hanging from it . |
| 16 | Driving through the market place I thought again that Darrowby on Christmas Day was like Dickens come to life ; the empty square with the snow thick on the cobbles and hanging from the eaves of the fretted lines of roofs ; the shops closed and the coloured lights of the Christmas trees winking at the windows of the clustering houses , warmly inviting against the cold white bulk of the fells behind . |
| 17 | Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden . |
| 18 | I see me in my shame , the horror of this hour ; mascara fallout littering my face like ashes , my skin dank with the sweat of Crilly and myself , my underwear torn and hanging from my hips , and me , small and stoned and sobbing , beneath the stern emphatic white of Siobhan 's cross . |
| 19 | Infants who die of dehydration , their tongues blackened ( their mothers say ) and hanging from their mouths , compete for attention with equally brutal images of thirst-driven sertanejos who walk hundreds of kilometres to escape the drought of the sertão or hinterland . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The window was full of magazines , lying edge to edge and hanging in yellowed cellophane wrappers from clothes-pegs : she was reminded of playing shop as a child , and lining up the tins of food and boxes of soap flakes and bags of flour , all in miniature . |
| 22 | Bought at the Ephemera stall for framing , and hanging in the ‘ 121 ’ office of the Principal Clerk – were the Order of Proceedings in the Hall of Assembly on the occasion of the first Assembly after the Union of the Churches in 1929 ; and also the Order of Service for Queen Victoria 's Jubilee Thanksgiving , held in the Assembly Hall in May 1897 . |
| 23 | It was the scariest thing I did last year — that and hanging around the barrios of Medellin , the drug capital of Colombia , which boasts a murder rate ten times that of Los Angeles . |
| 24 | and hanging around the street cos then that will |
| 25 | On very special nights he was allowed to stand beside her hot tub in a steamy bathroom heated by a small portable fire and smelling of sweet herbs . |
| 26 | They sat on staircases to talk about poetry or politics , and many of them smoked long thin cigarettes rolled in dark brown paper and smelling of perfume . |
| 27 | The cafe was warm and smelling of fish scales . |
| 28 | She has also a teething baby , pinched and veined and smelling of milk . |
| 29 | There was also a chipped enamel mug stained almost black inside and smelling of spirits . |
| 30 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |