Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was that strange smell again which Dot recognized from the darkness of the night before of things dying and rotting and growing again . |
| 2 | It lay on him like water on a tin roof , rusting and rotting and corroding day after day . |
| 3 | And so we have and it 's now that the war 's over , we 'll now see the press pressing and probing and trying to erm undermine John Major in the way they 've erm |
| 4 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 5 | A couple were necking and smiling and glowing with blue reflected light from the TV . |
| 6 | She would go no further , but just pulled up under the trees , shivering and sweating and blowing . |
| 7 | They wavered and moved uncannily , glinting and shifting and burning in a heavy , solid way no thing should in the air . |
| 8 | One man just sat there in silence , looking at the camera , grinning and folding and refolding his six fivers . |
| 9 | Singing and limping and shouting memories and boasts , they staggered off home , supported by their women , loaded with recaptured loot . |
| 10 | Because they can see nothing in front of them but cooking and scrubbing and mending … and endless babies . |
| 11 | For almost a month she had remained in the house , eating and sleeping and sitting , submitting to Lyddy 's hairbrush , practising her daily ration at the piano , performing her daily ration upon tapestry canvas , running endless little errands for Aunt Emily , trying to make her handwriting more ladylike , her movements more graceful . |
| 12 | How how would you go about measuring that other than talking to people afterwards about how they feel about interviewing others . |
| 13 | I 've gone down hill since then , but she said you know these folks are hard when you 've been out of work for a long while , you 've got ta just get back up and fight again , I said , she said and I know how hard that is , but she said you know , if you can get it going and fit and get in , so |
| 14 | When the dance ended and everyone was standing in clusters , sweating and smiling and breathing heavily , he sang out in a high voice with a laugh in it — |
| 15 | I also knew that eating in the way I did , stuffing and starving and taking laxatives when I felt guilty about what I 'd eaten , was dangerous too , and affecting my health . |
| 16 | It was unspeakably horrid to know that a great , slithering , inchoate mass of effluence was crawling and creeping and smelling its way towards you . |
| 17 | London created two tries through running and passing and got another from a pushover . |
| 18 | I saw Signe standing among the red-roofed airport huts even before we landed , and while we taxied in she was running and waving and smiling a gigantic smile . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's this about running and jumping and racing about then ? |
| 20 | " Now all this time , El-ahrairah was dancing and mating and boasting that he was going to Frith 's meeting to receive a great gift . |
| 21 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 22 | Scenes of empires lost and won , Gordon at Khartoum and fuzzy-wuzzies at Omdurman , dreadnoughts and dreadlocks , gallopers plunging and rearing and lying on their sides with their legs broken , bears and tigers and great striding birds and British lions with Union Jack saddles . |
| 23 | He turned and glared at her and for a moment she thought the old Georg was going to start carping and nagging and telling her what she ought or ought not to do . |
| 24 | And them that 's been drinking and that and did n't come b back |
| 25 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 26 | She showed up in her Rolls in the car park of the supermarket , and , although there was a lot of nodding and smiling and remarks about coincidences , it was pretty clear that her presence had been arranged for someone 's benefit . |
| 27 | We could all be happy , too , if we had audiences , if we had private tutors nodding and smiling and ticking our work . |
| 28 | In my most cherished memory of him , he is standing on his chair , at a table for twenty-eight in The Last Great Australian Fish Restaurant , bopping and twisting and bellowing his way through ‘ I Ca n't Get No Satisfaction ’ , with his walkabout phone precariously jammed in the back pocket of a pair of apparently descending blue jeans . |
| 29 | At any time , we are either learning and developing or moving backwards . |
| 30 | And ( as will be shown later in this section ) when a physical or sexual abuse investigation , for example , does develop , such investigations are often time consuming and stressful and have to be conducted in the context of other duty work . |