Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We treated each other within our little group humanely and normally , and passed over thinking about the others . |
| 2 | He was forcefully kicked in his stomach , and bent over groaning with the pain . |
| 3 | We visited the Legion 's museum the following day and wandered round looking at the different flags of the units which had fought all over the world for 150 years . |
| 4 | They changed in the changing rooms so thoughtfully provided and came out shivering in the cool evening . |
| 5 | But as the sepoy lunged forward to put an end to the struggle he stumbled , blinded by the dust and plaster from the ceiling , and fetched up choking on the floor beside Fleury . |
| 6 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 7 | A word processing package should allow the user to create documents which can be viewed on screen , saved on disk , loaded into the microcomputer 's memory , amended on screen and printed out according to the format devised by the user . |
| 8 | I 've read about it , you do exercises and train yourself , and then when the time comes you pop behind a bush and reappear with the baby slung on your hip , and go on toiling in the paddy-fields as if nothing had happened . " |
| 9 | In that case , shopkeepers and manufacturers might be prepared to drop their profit margins , absorb the tax and go on selling at the same price . |
| 10 | Coleman knew the power it could exercise behind the scenes , and went on hoping through the summer of 1990 that Control would somehow find the right strings to pull . |
| 11 | He leaned his great bronzed forehead on his hand , turning his face gratefully to the cool of the night air , and went on talking in the soft , absorbed voice of one alone with his own spirit . |
| 12 | and went on pouring in the horrible growing |
| 13 | He put one hand out ; she put out hers and gripped his forearm , looked up briefly and made a noise which might have been " thanks " , and went on working at the strap of her shoe . |
| 14 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 15 | She stopped shouting and gave up hammering on the door . |
| 16 | Britain 's jobless total will top three million around Christmas and carry on rising into the New Year . |
| 17 | I turn back and carry on looking in the window , but it 's hard to concentrate with this blue light flashing on and off in the glass . |
| 18 | What if a rule change , such as the introduction of a new settlement date , is formally communicated to members , but the traders on the floor do not " register " that the change has taken place and carry on trading on the basis of the old date ? |
| 19 | The breakthrough in this version is that you can combine a live chart within a spreadsheet display and carry on working on the spreadsheet without having to switch modes . |
| 20 | After a bit I get bored and carry on walking up the street . |
| 21 | I came down the steps of the Ashbery that morning and burst out laughing at the heat . |
| 22 | However , instead of driving the chair into the lumbering reptile , which would stop her impetus , she sidestepped , jumped past the creature and carried on running to the door . |
| 23 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 24 | During the 1980s BP Minerals International Ltd investigated several areas for gold mineralisation in Scotland and carried out drilling in the Craven Basin in northern England for carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn mineralisation . |
| 25 | She was drawn closer and ended up sitting on the arm of his chair , craning past him . |
| 26 | The band was called Touching Home and we got a lot of church functions and ended up playing for the American community there . ’ |
| 27 | Her name was Doris and I settled down and ended up working in the kitchen which I enjoyed . |
| 28 | Eighteen eighty nine the Foston selling plate at Derby was declared void after the whole field got lost in the thick fog covering the course and ended up running round the back of a cricket pavilion . |