Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing human like hearing or seeing or pitying or helping about him . |
| 2 | Using or taking as representing is a mental act , and it presupposes that the mind has the power of seeing generality in things , by seeing the class ( or form ) in the particular . |
| 3 | The taxing officer hears the parties and decides any issues in dispute , either allowing the item in the bill to stand or disallowing or reducing it . |
| 4 | When the salient vicinity includes another moving object , particularly a flying insect twisting and turning and diving in a desperate attempt to shake off its pursuer , the extra benefit to the bat of increasing its sample rate more than justifies the increased cost . |
| 5 | Whirlwinds , water spouts , twisting and entangling and spinning us to destruction . |
| 6 | Nor , from the sounds of tossing and turning that drifted up through the deck hatch in the quiet dark hours of her watch , was Nathan . |
| 7 | Immediately , the foresail went out of control , banging and flapping and whipping back and forth , effectively keeping the crew at bay . |
| 8 | and she run back down the stairs and the front door was opening and banging and shutting , whether she run outside or what I do n't know what happened , the dog was bloody barking . |
| 9 | Certainly the front door was opening and banging and shutting . |
| 10 | The glass-fronted doors of the dining rooms were constantly opening and shutting and letting in draughts of cold morning air with the busy comings and goings of workers and their loud , raucous banter . |
| 11 | Right all those need slicing and buttering and putting on there . |
| 12 | The other sailors pushed the three prisoners up the beach , laughing and shouting and hitting them . |
| 13 | Wished that she was laughing and joking and shouting out ‘ Behind you ’ and ‘ Oh no you do n't ’ to the dame on the stage of the theatre . |
| 14 | ‘ One minute , ’ said Elinor , who seemed to have cheered up considerably , ‘ there he was laughing and joking and having a good time . |
| 15 | All the girls helped her to get the fire going , spread the tablecloth , put out the cups and plates , laughing and whispering and bustling about as they showed her the places and secrets of the kitchen , the room that was now her room . |
| 16 | They were laughing and talking and putting black square things to their faces , pointing them at the eagles , and clicking them . |
| 17 | It does n't really want to and I find it difficult to believe and I 'm not sure I want to because I feel so fucking drained and sore , but the thing 's actually responding , fattening and firming and rising in her kneading , soap-slick hands . |
| 18 | He used his hands flirtatiously , slowly , not flapping or pointing but caressing and floating , as if wiping his flat hand inches from the surface of a painting . |
| 19 | Importance is given to teeth-grinding , interpreted in a negative way , together with speaking , groaning or snoring while dreaming . |
| 20 | If your child did start vomiting or trembling or gasping for breath , would you suspect that they had eaten delphinium seeds unless they were still holding the packet ? |
| 21 | Worst hit of all were Motherwell , who had 22 of their 32 registered players either injured or coughing and spluttering , and who had their league game with Celtic postponed as a result of the infection . |
| 22 | In the dreams I am sinking or searching or sacrificing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I came to the end of the bridge , where technically my territory stops , and stood still for a while , thinking , feeling , listening and looking and smelling . |
| 25 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 26 | Spluttering and spitting and brushing at himself he dashed to a clearer part of the hall . |
| 27 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 28 | The creme gel formulation is ideal for smoothing and protecting and costs £4.50 — call for your nearest salon . |
| 29 | The playing throughout the evening was truly superb , every instrumentalist bowing and blowing and thumping as though for dear life . |
| 30 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |