Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | reflecting on and learning from experience . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 5 | William Davis , Chairman of the British Tourist Authority , says overseas visitors are still coming but they 're trading down and looking for bargains . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Never late Jo is , half-past eight sharp like a bloody train steaming up and come on Maggie for Christ 's sake they close the nursery doors at nine you should know that by now . |
| 8 | Hector was before her , leaping up and barking at his mistress . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And daleks whirring around and chanting in their piercing electronic voices , ‘ Awful Warning ! |
| 11 | Little Billy began climbing about and peeping into the tiny windows . |
| 12 | He spent some time climbing about and peering in all directions . |
| 13 | And the villains just listen for it , you walking round and hide in the doorway for five minutes you see far more |
| 14 | Rose said pensively , walking round and sitting in Naseby 's seat before he could reach it . |
| 15 | Jess resisted , primly folding her hands , looking down and waiting in a resigned-servant manner for permission to go . |
| 16 | Secure in the knowledge that his mother would be fully occupied for the rest of the evening and the butler would be busy introducing the guests , Patrick pulled off his dressing down and slipped down the back stairs to the kitchen . |
| 17 | It is peculiar that the hedgehogs should be used as the balls , especially as they keep wandering off and getting into hedgehog fights . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For a round cake , roll the cake like a wheel along the strip , picking up and pressing on the marzipan as you go . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He sat there for quite a while , grinning at her , then looking away , then looking back and grinning at her again . |
| 23 | In this sense of the term , regionalism is a view from the centre looking out and suffers from similar tensions to those faced by would-be planners . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Or maybe it was like the ball in a roulette wheel , bouncing around and looking for the right number … |
| 26 | because , you know , you will see a couple of doctors wandering around and sitting at the desk |
| 27 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 28 | Also ‘ tried on ’ was encroaching on and hedging in parcels of common land and none could have offended more often than one Mephibosheth White . |
| 29 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 30 | ‘ Zooming out ’ of what 's going on and commenting on it , without apportioning blame , may help defuse tension : ‘ Things seem to be getting a little heated at the moment . ’ |