Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , when I began researching into social aspects of book reading I knew very little at all about publishing or bookselling and my experience of libraries was mainly limited to being a user of them . |
| 2 | And he did n't take any notice of what she was asking or saying and he did n't take any notice of her at all . |
| 3 | Hold up this measured piece of work to the machine , neither stretching nor easing and you find you appear to need about 120 stitches . |
| 4 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 5 | an Amstrad , f for which I can give you my letterhead and formatting and you can then write letters for me . |
| 6 | He thought of himself , stunning them all by running and swimming and riding and shooting better than the lot of them , and them all eating their words and cheering and him being cool , man . |
| 7 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |
| 8 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 9 | And he said , I suddenly felt so ill , you know , and I was shaking , and , and , and , and , and obviously started running a temperature and , and my , my , er and , and shivering and whatever . |
| 10 | The kite just kept snapping and flapping and flapping and snapping and it hauled the girl off the earth and into the air , winch and all . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't think we had any chance of catching him but I just kept shoving and shouting and he got there in the end , ’ said Antoinette . |
| 12 | I know bearings wanted doing erm tt what he said was they wanted packing and greasing and summat , you know |
| 13 | Shopping in the supermarket , you 're going around and looking and you know you ca n't have it , you have to leave it . |
| 14 | He was staring and trembling and his great-size seemed only to add to his air of stricken misery . |
| 15 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 16 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 17 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 18 | Joe Maitland his boss was very often out buying and selling and he rarely interfered with the running of the store . |
| 19 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 20 | The dark red and damson robes were heavy and stifling and they could not possibly be what she was looking for . |
| 21 | place where they they were like getting er ones that had been smashed up , and doing and they said that the people that are doing it are top people ! |
| 22 | Deaf people may be seen as handicapped and failing and our studies can easily be presented in this way . |
| 23 | So I took my time over the bread and dripping and I spilt my cocoa on the floor in an effort to play for time . |
| 24 | a few years ago when my sons were teenagers I had some nice dripping and I said , you 've never had bread and dripping and I gave them some , I put a bit of salt on , I said , try this , I loved a bit of med bread and dripping when I was your age . |
| 25 | Suddenly a dog flung itself at me snarling and growling and they all stopped what they were doing to look in my direction . |
| 26 | said : ‘ I am delighted that it is now up and running and I am confident we have done justice to the concept . ’ |
| 27 | I push , prod , drop keys and re-attempt entry in vain until I realize that the only resemblance between the car into which I was breaking and entering and my own car is that they were both white . |
| 28 | People going and collecting and I 'm hoping first prize winner 's there . |
| 29 | The rain kept starting and stopping and it looked as if most of our march was going to be in the wet . |
| 30 | I mean , when we 're all like , laughing and joking and everything he 's like , oh yeah really in with it but when everyone 's like arguing or whatever he he |