Example sentences of "and [noun pl] and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What station-building remained was increasingly to reflect the functional , geometrical approach , stressing cubes and cylinders and glorying in reinforced concrete . |
| 2 | AVALANCHES roared down the mountains of northern Afghanistan , burying hundreds of people in buses and cars and killing at least 40 , officials said yesterday . |
| 3 | Taking the figures for smokers and non-smokers and allowing for all competing causes of death , the conclusion is that around one in 20 of the lung cancers in the UK may be due to radon exposure at home . |
| 4 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 5 | It was particularly delightful to be with the young people , sharing their dreams and concerns and talking with them about the future . |
| 6 | When she was a youngster she was forever going up the long path through the convent kitchen gardens , past the briars and brambles and peering in its windows . |
| 7 | In the meantime it 's empty , although they generally turn up at weekends and mess around the place , painting bits and pieces and knocking in nails . |
| 8 | We grew together struggling for supremacy like a wisteria — two trunks from one root — twining tortuously round each other 's faults and failings and culminating in the glorious flowers of two fine sons and a deep and immovable friendship . |
| 9 | Matthew Weinstein , at Sonnabend from 14 November to 19 December , makes abstractions aggressive , colourful , even violent in spirit , using enamels and glazes and flirting with notions of vulgarity in which the imagery of the tattoo parlour hearts , skulls , etc. sometimes peep through . |
| 10 | Using guitars equipped in turn with single coils and humbuckers and referring to the handbook 's suggested settings for guidance , I was able to access some excellently chunky rhythm sounds and quite respectable non-gothic lead tones into the bargain . |
| 11 | By the mid-1960s MITI recognized the importance of the industry by increasing loans and subsidies and embarking on a series of attempts to rationalize the industry and/or organize cooperative ventures . |
| 12 | As this whole approach is to do with openness , its third part is to do with giving people information they need , with expressing your own thoughts and feelings and asking for help and advice when you need it . |
| 13 | It was the fashion at that time for rich people to have a little black page , dressed up in silks and satins and riding on the step of their carriage . |
| 14 | This ‘ blanket ’ is a generous fold of skin stretching from the side of the neck to the tips of fingers and toes and extending to the tip of the long tail on each side of the body . |
| 15 | Evans was arrested in piccadilly in 1908 , wearing ‘ lace petticoats and stays and drinking from an opened spirit bottle ’ . |
| 16 | Social services departments also provide care and after care for older children , by running hostels for working boys and girls and helping with the costs of further education and training , or simply by offering friendship and advice . |
| 17 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 18 | Employees also received a grant towards incidental expenses like buying carpets and curtains and paying for telephone installation . |
| 19 | In the afternoon haze , a tall mountain suddenly appeared , surrounded by rock walls and spires and looking like a faint fortress from the 11th century . |
| 20 | If you are using this style on a group , it 's worth thinking about individuals ' values and interests and appealing to them . |
| 21 | The laser equipment can be used on both adults and children and according to consultant dermatologist Dr Grace Allen , is a major advance on treatment previously available in the province . |
| 22 | If these are the lessons of prudence , then standing back from the official portrait of crime and criminals and looking at it critically might be a very beneficial move towards getting our heads straight . |
| 23 | A few steps past the skips brings you to the lift , an aluminium cell sticky with spit and sweets and smelling of disinfectant . |
| 24 | On the morning of 13 November the Stamford bellman would warn the townsfolk to shut up their doors , shops and gates and according to Richard Butcher |
| 25 | Advising and buying on commission for major private collectors and museums , we followed our motto : small profits , quick returns , dealing mainly in fine paintings , prints and drawings and specialising in German Art . |
| 26 | These pastures are created by adding shell sand and fertilisers and reseeding with grass mixtures and Trifolium . |
| 27 | Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden . |
| 28 | A lively and optimistic search to find hidden depths and insights and questioning within pupils must replace negative attitudes towards children 's capacity for thinking . |
| 29 | The ones who had stopped were looking over their shoulders at a cordon of men drifting in twos and threes out of the side streets and doorways and converging on the play . |
| 30 | Propelled forward by the shrieking aunts , who were bringing up the rear , they stumbled in , falling over the pots and pans and bumping into the dangling kettles , dropping their sacks and shouting and generally making the most satisfactory uproar imaginable . |