Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the scheming and matchmaking that went on behind the scenes , when Charles and Diana took their wedding vows on 29 July 1981 , they were undoubtedly in love . |
| 2 | These , although they must be travelling very fast initially , seem to move quite slowly , twisting and turning lazily in the air and tracing out elegant parabolic paths as they fall back to earth round the vent . |
| 3 | Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long . |
| 4 | Within seconds each man was twisting and skidding away from the attackers . |
| 5 | My favourite of them is the Power Toolbox , a way of taking program launching and switching out of the Program Manager altogether and putting your own buttons on the desktop . |
| 6 | When they hit the ground , they may stop abruptly , embedding themselves still glowing , fuming and sizzling slightly in the loose ash ; or they may bounce off , to leap down the steep sides of the cone in a series of great bounds , developing a rapid spin as they do so , and whirring downhill like cannonballs , ending up in a rattling shower of small stones at the bottom . |
| 7 | Scientific explanations , scientists like M. Hammerton inform us , huffing and puffing away like the good little , non-pontificating rational beings they are , are completely objective phenomena , and value-free , which is even more to the point . |
| 8 | Our goal is solely to establish whether , in a practical ensemble torn apart by antagonism ( whether there are multiple conflicts or whether they are reduced to one ) the breaks themselves are totalizing and carried along by the totalizing movement of the ensemble . |
| 9 | People moving , people speaking , children laughing and playing somewhere in the distance . |
| 10 | It also allows the diarrhoetic person no time for listening or taking in from the other . |
| 11 | It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism . |
| 12 | There are , then , different conventions for these forms of writing that relate directly to the differences of function and context . |
| 13 | Eight individuals living and working together in the confines of a ninety feet steel hull for three months and still parting as friends at the end of the trip says a lot for compatibility of the cutter crews . |
| 14 | Working , living and playing together in the knowledge that this may continue for many years to come increases the pressure to conform to the wishes of the group . |
| 15 | Corbett bathed in the guest-house 's one and only tub before dressing and going down to the buttery for ale and a bowl of bread and fish boiled in milk . |
| 16 | Shouting and blasting all over the loud speakers ! |
| 17 | And that 's 4 weeks cutting , shaping and piecing together in the workshop using techniques , both old fashioned and up to date . |
| 18 | Young people mostly ; some were singing and prancing along in the middle of the roadway . |
| 19 | You can hasten this recovery process by relaxing , resting and eating well in the days following your run . |
| 20 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 21 | Nor , from the sounds of tossing and turning that drifted up through the deck hatch in the quiet dark hours of her watch , was Nathan . |
| 22 | By that I mean it is a way of bringing dignity , caring and love right into the heart of the impersonal secular world of modernity . |
| 23 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 24 | Our cat , and I 've really watched her makes a point of going and walking slowly in the road . |
| 25 | When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there . |
| 26 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 27 | Chesarynth thought it was her own screaming and embarrassment boiled through her but when she looked round , bodies were twitching and smoking everywhere as the computer-banks sparked into flame . |
| 28 | It is to that ‘ twilight zone ’ that we should direct our attentions , waiting and watching on as the edges waiver , become indistinct , and blend . |
| 29 | Waiting and watching down by the shops — |
| 30 | Once built , the nests are lined with tightly packed leaves which act as insulation and the hedgehogs are then ready to sleep the winter away , occasionally waking and wandering about on the off chance of finding a meal . |