Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hullo Miss MacPeake , ’ said wee Danny , standing up and hanging his head . |
| 2 | It was unspeakably horrid to know that a great , slithering , inchoate mass of effluence was crawling and creeping and smelling its way towards you . |
| 3 | The hens moved carefully about , picking their way on their spindly yellow legs , muttering comfortably to each other and darting their heads to the ground every so often in pursuit of something delicious . |
| 4 | He was a ‘ prodigal who is brought kicking , struggling , resentful and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape ’ . |
| 5 | This was a real lady The girls were suddenly self-conscious , smoothing down their tattered skirts and tucking their dirty feet out of sight . |
| 6 | Ski down , pulling your tummy in and tucking your bottom under . |
| 7 | Nor did Gustave — shouting for wine , leading the animal round the room and bellowing its virtues : ‘ The young phenomenon is three years old , has passed the Académie de Métecine , and has been honoured by visits from several crowned heads , etc . ’ |
| 8 | In my most cherished memory of him , he is standing on his chair , at a table for twenty-eight in The Last Great Australian Fish Restaurant , bopping and twisting and bellowing his way through ‘ I Ca n't Get No Satisfaction ’ , with his walkabout phone precariously jammed in the back pocket of a pair of apparently descending blue jeans . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ clearly weighing up the chances of Auguste 's swimming underwater to the women 's bathing machine section and drowning his beloved daughter . |
| 10 | And pitching their dead bodies into the woods . |
| 11 | Far from adopting a desktop solution like SVR4.2 , HP is streamlining and modularizing its own HP/UX to suit upcoming low-cost boxes . |
| 12 | That year he moved out of London to the Kent countryside and was henceforth mainly writing books , raising children and nursing his health . |
| 13 | ‘ Svend was watching television and nursing his broken heart , trying to work out how he could go back home without losing face , when he was forced to realise the amount of trouble and disruption he and his erstwhile girlfriend had caused on all fronts ! ’ |
| 14 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 15 | A benign observer of the event , sitting in among the press and nursing his hangover , would have cast his eye unenthusiastically over the massed ranks of what Sir Peregrine Worsthorne had once described in Mrs Thatcher 's golden days as ‘ the most successful political party in the world ’ : ‘ Essex Man ’ and ‘ Wessex Woman ’ , stockjobbers , garage-owners and a scattering of country women in lavender tweeds . |
| 16 | Mr Taylor 's considering his future — dividing his time between replying to three and a half thousand letters of support and nursing his mother , who , he revealed today , has suffered a stroke . |
| 17 | It was a horrible feeling being that far ahead and nursing my lead . |
| 18 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 19 | The Vicars family from Portsmouth , Hants , got their hands on a Pounds 50 three-piece suite after waiting outside Allders since Christmas Eve and eating their Christmas dinner on the pavement . |
| 20 | The worms can only live in compostable material so there 's no fear of them making a bid for freedom and eating their way through the vegetable patch . |
| 21 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 22 | She must be married to the young man next to me , who was drinking his tea out of a bowl and eating his bread with unwashed hands . |
| 23 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 24 | No , you 're not laying there and eating your dinner . |
| 25 | Grieving for the lost image of ourselves as helpful and useful people can be an important factor in avoiding depression or cynicism and recovering our self-respect . |
| 26 | A noted authority on Medieval German , Olive was a most dedicated college tutor to generations of modern linguists , fostering and encouraging her pupils , and a fierce defender of modern languages in college and in the university . |
| 27 | They can help the mentally ill , encouraging them to seek treatment when necessary , supporting them in the trying period after hospitalization , and encouraging their efforts to find work , lodgings and companionship despite their disabilities . |
| 28 | The attraction of the SMG to the left was not , he believes , its commitment to monitoring racial violence and assisting its victims , but its second stated purpose of monitoring and campaigning on cases of alleged ‘ police harassment . ’ |
| 29 | Naturally , Hannah had to take her place on the Baldersdale treadmill , working to the orders of her uncle in the fields ( her father died when she was an infant ) and assisting her mother in the kitchen and wash house . |
| 30 | The relief of the town 's Alcazar , the military barracks where the Nationalist garrison was under siege from left-wing militias , while earning Franco the world 's headlines and assisting his elevation to overall military and political command , also gave the Republicans precious time in which to organize the defence of the capital . |