Example sentences of "and [verb] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you rather I turned up in my paint-stained jeans and smelling of turpentine ? ’ |
| 2 | They sat on staircases to talk about poetry or politics , and many of them smoked long thin cigarettes rolled in dark brown paper and smelling of perfume . |
| 3 | She had found one months later under the vegetable rack , shrunk to the size of a nut , dark wizened brown , and smelling of cider . |
| 4 | A few steps past the skips brings you to the lift , an aluminium cell sticky with spit and sweets and smelling of disinfectant . |
| 5 | She has also a teething baby , pinched and veined and smelling of milk . |
| 6 | She comes up gasping , the air warm about her face , hair dank and smelling of mud as her feet touch the bottom , sinking into its softness . |
| 7 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 8 | It was red and smelled of perfume . |
| 9 | The floor of the barn was cold stone and slimy and smelled of engine oil and damp cereals . |
| 10 | Much more so than the place she had visited in London , which had been dark and smelled of incense . |
| 11 | The chapel at St Mary 's Priory of the Little Sisters of Pity was cold and damp and smelled of candlegrease and incense . |
| 12 | Dimly lit , permanently blacked out , they had become dirty and dingy and smelled of neglect . |
| 13 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 14 | While under capitalism the owning and accumulating of property is seen as the aim of life , in tribal conditions property is simple seen as a necessary pre-condition of life and social relations . |
| 15 | Surely this is the worthiest human task ; to cultivate this magic box and make of life a splendid and beautiful vision and creation ? |
| 16 | Fluent and sparing of gesture , compact and spruce of build , Burton smiles where other Hals have guffawed , relaxes where they have strained , and Falstaff ( played with affectionate obesity by Anthony Quayle ) must work hard to divert him . |
| 17 | At the end of his tirade he seemed curiously tired , and emptied of invective . |
| 18 | If attitudes towards deaf people influence the learning and using of BSL , then they almost certainly affect BSL interpreting . |
| 19 | A thrombus contains both fibrin-rich and platelet-rich material , and targeting of plasminogen activators could be achieved by either antifibrin or antiplatelet monoclonal antibodies . |
| 20 | Halberds would also be easy enough to manage , and although the pike was normally eighteen feet long and made of ash , there are records of women engaging successfully in pike-pushes . |
| 21 | They might be sorted according to any combination of these , such as things which are ‘ green and made of metal ’ , but such sophisticated sorting is seldom within the range of the very young child . |
| 22 | Etching vessels should be shallow , tightly-closing and made of polythene or similar soft plastic . |
| 23 | It had suddenly found itself desperately short of a special washer — waxed and made of felt — that is a vital bit in the detonation process inside the RAF 's latest 1,000lb bombs . |
| 24 | The table he sat at was circular and made of pine or what Hilbert and Adam 's father had called deal . |
| 25 | The box was a musical one and made of silver . |
| 26 | Tigers are more specialised and demanding of habitat and prey requirements than leopards . |
| 27 | Braille and large print materials are bulky ; braillers , typewriters , tape recorders and closed circuit television sets are both heavy and demanding of space . |
| 28 | You can not manage like that when staff are mobile , aware of skill-shortages and demanding of reward , participation and acknowledgement , ’ she adds.So are there no voices of dissension ? |
| 29 | Poppy-straw and concentrate of poppy-straw are controlled drugs and the Act apparently contemplates that one may be produced from the other . |
| 30 | Cold may also go down onto the chest with lots of secretions , coughing and rattling of mucus . |