Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [coord] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Seren Haminh , in the instant before dissolution , saw and knew and understood that she was dying utterly and completely and forever , as the shock and agony and terror screamed to infinite depths , Fox linked and shared , high and higher . |
| 2 | He was driving fast but safely and , Agnes noted , not as well as she could have done . |
| 3 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 4 | From the mere fact of wanting more or less or not at all or the contrary I can derive no imperative for choosing between my wants . |
| 5 | The responses were later grouped into three categories : ( a ) never smoker — ‘ I have never smoked a cigarette , not even a puff ’ ; ( b ) tried but stopped — ‘ I have only ever tried smoking once or twice but I do n't smoke now , ’ or ‘ I used to smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke now ’ ; ( c ) current smoker — ‘ I smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke as much as one cigarette a week ’ or ‘ I usually smoke between one and six cigarettes a week , ’ or ‘ I usually smoke more than six cigarettes a week . ’ |
| 6 | It passed in a flash of man-made , unnatural colour , glittering here and there and brighter than a winter holly tree . |
| 7 | The duty of the supervisor is to prevent the learner from acting unskillfully or carelessly or in a manner likely to cause danger to others . |
| 8 | When this is over and we are far away from here , and living quietly and happily and safely , Zeno will have to die too . |
| 9 | it was really going faster and faster and faster and suddenly it stopped dead . |
| 10 | All of a sudden I was awoken by the sound of a buzzer to my right going faster and faster and bearing in mind Rick was to my left it could be only one thing , the cat rod was away ! |
| 11 | It just , just keeps going faster and faster and faster and faster |
| 12 | The Trees were moving slowly and painfully and it was terrible and marvellous to see them . |
| 13 | So the value is getting less and less and less . |
| 14 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 15 | These animals were noted for the white finching along their backs and were prominent throughout the English Midlands early in the eighteenth century , soon spreading southwards and westwards and also into Ireland 's central plain . |
| 16 | Things are getting harder and harder and we 're going backwards . |
| 17 | He was getting nearer and nearer and was almost upon them . |
| 18 | And the barriers drop , so if you try and go through when the lights are flashing or if you try and go round the barriers the chances are the train 's getting nearer and nearer and could hit you . |
| 19 | Speaking simply and directly and from the heart . |
| 20 | In addition , various situational factors influence pronunciation , such as the social relationship between speaker and hearer , whether one is speaking publicly or privately and the purposes for which one is using language . |
| 21 | Their thirteen examples are still flying safely and reliably and at an operating profit , and unless and until a new design is embarked upon ( undoubtedly requiring massive joint international investment ) then Concorde will almost certainly be the only way civilian passengers can travel at twice the speed of sound until well into the next century . |
| 22 | The council is spending prudently and efficiently and it 's spending as little hard cash as is compatible with meeting the essential needs of the people who live in the city . |
| 23 | The butcher lets me have a pound of dripping now and then and I can make it last . |
| 24 | Whether coming here or not and I do n't really think that , you know , coming back to it I do n't think he would fit in . |
| 25 | sticking here and there but er |
| 26 | It did n't take him long , and all she wanted were her books and all the time the mother was crying and rocking backwards and forwards and the old father was ranting on in Yiddish . |
| 27 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 28 | She tried joining her mind to the millions of people everywhere glued to screens for this all important match but all she could see was Colm 's pudgy little legs swinging backwards and forwards and the grim look on his face as she washed away the crusted blood . |
| 29 | A heavy , silver casket was swinging backwards and forwards and there was that smell in the air — a smell of old leaves and perfume and musty , clinging sweetness . |
| 30 | Cranston snored gently like a child , muttering now and again and smacking his lips . |