Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government are hoping to carry on and according to the Secretary of State for the Environment the people will have to put up with the tax until 1993 . |
| 2 | reflecting on and learning from experience . |
| 3 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 4 | But there were some good memories , particularly of one Polish vessel after we had rescued their lifeboat , broken down and drifting in adverse weather in the outer reaches of the lock with the mate and several crewmen on board . |
| 5 | It depicts an outline map of Anglesey with airship SZ.234 superimposed , its trail rope hanging down and pointing to the location near Llangefni which is now part of RAF Mona . |
| 6 | She flapped an ineffectual hand at the swarms of small , irritating flies that hovered above the path , landing on and adhering to her warm face in a most unpleasant manner . |
| 7 | The funds used in and accruing from these transactions were debited and credited to accounts of the taxpayer bank with overseas banks and it was the profits from these transactions which the commissioner sought to tax . |
| 8 | William Davis , Chairman of the British Tourist Authority , says overseas visitors are still coming but they 're trading down and looking for bargains . |
| 9 | I boosted again , head down and shouting to myself inside , screaming mentally , my voice like a press , screwing down tighter to squeeze a final effort from my legs . |
| 10 | From the north door emerges , with entourage , Cranley Onslow , chairman of the 1922 Committee , head down and making for the lift . |
| 11 | The fact that there may indeed be real risks attached to opening up and talking from the heart is not in dispute , just as the limitations on teachers ' freedom are very real . |
| 12 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The roots torn up and bleeding on the ground and the woman smashed by life 's storms were to him interchangeable images . |
| 14 | Hector was before her , leaping up and barking at his mistress . |
| 15 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 16 | And daleks whirring around and chanting in their piercing electronic voices , ‘ Awful Warning ! |
| 17 | Little Billy began climbing about and peeping into the tiny windows . |
| 18 | He spent some time climbing about and peering in all directions . |
| 19 | Rose said pensively , walking round and sitting in Naseby 's seat before he could reach it . |
| 20 | Jess resisted , primly folding her hands , looking down and waiting in a resigned-servant manner for permission to go . |
| 21 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 22 | It is peculiar that the hedgehogs should be used as the balls , especially as they keep wandering off and getting into hedgehog fights . |
| 23 | It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call . |
| 24 | For a round cake , roll the cake like a wheel along the strip , picking up and pressing on the marzipan as you go . |
| 25 | The drivers , now cut up and veering to the Left , find voting for the party that has championed the self-employed harder to do . |
| 26 | In the picture Stuart held , his father was grinning self-consciously in his formal dress , at least a head taller than his wife who hung on his arm , looking up and laughing at her husband . |
| 27 | Finally the kite was finished , fully made up and lying like a collapsed tent on the grass , green on green . |
| 28 | Waldheim 's delight at meeting Kohl was understandable , for the encounter was possibly the last he will have with a foreign leader before bowing out and slipping into retirement . |
| 29 | He sat there for quite a while , grinning at her , then looking away , then looking back and grinning at her again . |
| 30 | Certainly , it is usually more comfortable for the salesperson to call upon old contacts , but the nature of much industrial selling is that , because product life is long , sustained sales growth depends upon searching out and selling to new customers . |