Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 2 | It is through common sense , fair dealing and strength of will that he dominates the men he now has to command , first for days in an open boat with scant food and water and then in the Bird of Dawning , a rival grain-clipper found deserted and drifting and brought once more into the final and victorious stages of the race . |
| 3 | We go for a walk up into the hills in the afternoon ; me puffing and panting and coughing after Andy as he strides quickly , easily up the rutted forest tracks . |
| 4 | Self-development can he painful and confronting and getting results takes time . |
| 5 | Them Brits can 'ear us comin' a mile off what with your stampin' and clackin' and oléin' . |
| 6 | Raging and trembling and rejoicing . |
| 7 | She was happy when she sat up all night to spare Andrew a vigil by a sick or calving or foaling animal . |
| 8 | Whereas fast compound curves suggest smoke , silks and delicate , tenuous traceries drawn by a breeze , slow compound curves are like the muscles of a weight lifter — powerful , even ponderous and writhing when taken to extremes . |
| 9 | It should have been cold and raining as befitted a funeral . |
| 10 | People who claimed that they generally did not dream , when woken from REM sleep , did in fact report dreams , but they were particularly prone to forgetting them — if woken after the REM period was over , they recalled even fewer instances of dreaming than those who claimed regularly to recall dreams in the morning.6 In another study generally confirming these findings it was also noticed that " non-dreamers " tended to report that they were awake and thinking when woken from REM sleep . |
| 11 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 12 | Parents who do not detect an intermittent hearing loss can become irritable and controlling and label their child as disobedient and unresponsive . |
| 13 | Not until the child had come round , white-faced but spluttering and coughing , did Bert become aware of a man and a woman standing beside him : dishevelled , panic-stricken and shamefaced . |
| 14 | Not being a drinker , I do an obligatory flip round the post-show party , consoling or congratulating and giving what little advice I can to grieving or glowing parents . |
| 15 | But Wilkinson said : ‘ I am not interested in Manchester United and gaining or losing points on them at this stage . |
| 16 | Some children have little idea of how to chew and so parents demonstrating biting and chewing and talking about it shows the child how to do it . |
| 17 | He was n't stern and scowling and barking orders . |
| 18 | Despite all the scheming and matchmaking that went on behind the scenes , when Charles and Diana took their wedding vows on 29 July 1981 , they were undoubtedly in love . |
| 19 | But one way of generating or protecting and stabilizing conventions is by authoritative intervention . |
| 20 | Anyway , ‘ Butterfly Girl ’ always reminds me of that bit in The Wicker Man where Britt Ekland is naked and writhing and patting suggestively on Edward Woodward 's bedroom wall and singing a similarly spooky mantra . |
| 21 | He was standing at the door , greeting people as they came in , simpering and giggling and asking them how so-and-so was . |
| 22 | Ever since Doyle burst through the door , furious and shouting and shoving , she had stiffened into ice . |
| 23 | He had been in other worlds beside Ridgery Butts , the Yorkshire Dales and the long miles between , and thieving and creeping and running and looking after himself ; but Marian knew only the Ridgery and remembered very faintly some other sort of life , a memory of glints and patches of a different sort of sunlight . |
| 24 | Emmie only minded because sometimes when Marjorie came in she looked round her in a funny way , sharp and frowning and asked Dad if Mrs Hellyer could n't come more often . |
| 25 | Facts : pleaded guilty to robbery , having a firearm with intent and driving while disqualified . |
| 26 | Terrible hands , claws with the nails curved and nearly but not quite rotten and ready to fall out , the fingertips swollen and ripe and splitting and spilling pus in little dribbles . |
| 27 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 28 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 29 | Will you just stop fretting and arguing and imagine ten days in the balmy tropical climate of the Eastern Caribbean Windward Isles ? |
| 30 | He admitted two offences of taking a car without consent , reckless driving and driving while disqualified . |