Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many people do you see every day — cycling , walking and even driving — wearing headphones and singing to the music ? |
| 2 | As he grew older , however , he gave up walking and seldom stirred from his club in St James ; there he could be seen reading newspapers , endlessly , indiscriminately , about great events and small in the order they appeared on the page . |
| 3 | He closes his book at seven and goes walking and then reads . |
| 4 | One person chooses a way everyone is to move — such as jumping , hopping , walking and so on . |
| 5 | By using public transport , cycling and walking and so on , we are actually wasting far less of the world 's oil and all the other resources used to make cars . |
| 6 | The war in Europe seemed to be ending and so were my ‘ salad days ’ of radio with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . |
| 7 | They reject help from outside agencies which they see as interfering and so often show a poor response to therapy and intervention . |
| 8 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 10 | They shielded the broadcasters from outside pressure — from all directions , not just from the politicians — and they reviewed the broadcasters ' work , explaining , justifying and sometimes excusing it to government and the public . |
| 11 | Man charged : Steven Leach , 35 , of The Close , Walton , appeared at Liverpool today charged with abducting and indecently assaulting a boy of four , and was remanded in custody until Friday , after a massive police search . |
| 12 | It was a filthy trick , totally unsporting and certainly not cricket . |
| 13 | It expanded into Kirkcaldy , Dundee and Dunfermline ; extended into light commercial repairs , interior fabrication and painting of large commercials ; introduced shot blasting and low bake oven systems and brought in a comprehensive computer system . |
| 14 | Many early pigments are naturally occurring and brightly coloured minerals , usually metal salts , and often only minute traces remain . |
| 15 | The therapist needs to find out how often the problems are occurring and how extreme the behaviour is in order to assess the severity of the problem . |
| 16 | The intention was to see what sorts of problems seemed to be occurring and then to create automatic procedures , where possible , for gathering further information . |
| 17 | Squeaking and even gasping with the great good humour of it all . |
| 18 | It is frightening how dependent upon drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills . |
| 19 | Another woman was awarded relief for her bastard child , " upon their appearing and not showing why they should not " . |
| 20 | Coal fell into disfavour on the grounds that steam engines are noisy , polluting and only 5 per cent efficient . |
| 21 | This hierarchy shows the general subject area of building and its subordinate subject areas : building materials , auxiliary construction practices , construction in specific materials , wood construction , roofing and so on . |
| 22 | When the groups came together it was because in the fiction the Argonauts were landing and desperately needed food and shelter — which the younger children enormously enjoyed providing . |
| 23 | He then requested flares for landing and then put out an SOS that they were on fire . |
| 24 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 25 | It is possible to distinguish this style from others in that the discourse turns in interview style are alternating and relatively brief ; they follow a question-answer discourse structure , and they are often of roughly equal length . |
| 26 | She got up later than he did because she went to sleep later , tossing and sometimes weeping , and in the end usually fumbling her way downstairs to get herself a drink . |
| 27 | He did n't believe like his Mum , that Lee had been making trouble , knocking and then running off . |
| 28 | I was knocking and then and then he said and er I just stood there he said like you know you 're not allowed to be here it 's too late , it 's the boys ' area erm come on , sort out , you know , come on sort it out you know like he says that |
| 29 | The interchange agreement should also deal with such matters as authentication of messages , liability for errors and system failure , system and message security , record keeping and so on . |
| 30 | Environmental Services are keeping and still recruiting the best people and the result is still reflected by our peers and the country 's opinion formers . |