Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [v-ing] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His stomach rumbled and he flushed both hot and cold ; tossing and groaning when the pain came strong , twisting wracking spasms . |
| 2 | It accompanied this request with a paper entitled ‘ Future Management of AFE and distribution of the 1982/83 AFE pool ’ , outlining the criteria which the short-term machinery would have to meet and stressing that the paper had been prepared ‘ purely as a basis for further discussion between the Department and the local authorities ’ . |
| 3 | Caspar and Fenella stood in the Workshops , with the wood-store behind them , their skin shrivelling and flinching and every sense assaulted by what was before them . |
| 4 | We bounced round on that pallet bed , so much laughing and shouting that the landlord came up . |
| 5 | This is not cheating but acknowledging that the change-over period is one of difficulty and strain and should be made as attractive as possible . |
| 6 | Only a few months earlier he had , as she was soon to discover , been involved in a plot to murder her secretary and musician David Rizzio , believing or half-believing that the two of them were lovers . |
| 7 | There was a confusion of bodies , a wave of pushing and shoving as the crowd recoiled . |
| 8 | It is thus precisely through a clearly registered refusal to withdraw from the day-to-day pleasures of thinking , listening , looking and feeling that the sensual references within these paintings remain anchored within socially experienced and theoretically informed sensibilities . |
| 9 | The camera retreated and the dark head began bobbing back and forth swallowing and regurgitating and a hand cupped the blond balls . |
| 10 | Oral aspirin is difficult if the patient is nauseated and vomiting and the opiate given to relieve pain may delay gastric motility . |
| 11 | He tried to reach across with his left hand and snatch the blade away , but his hands were held apart , and he was pinned down struggling and sobbing until the dagger slid slowly out of his fingers and clattered on the flags . |
| 12 | There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box . |
| 13 | A free park and ride scheme had been organised , which was very good in theory , but so many people were parking and riding that the many coaches could barely pass each other on the narrow roads thronged with thousands of people . |
| 14 | The 92-year-old Queen Mother rarely misses the four days of racing and socialising and the news followed hard on the heels of her decision to skip the Garter Ceremony at Windsor on Monday . |
| 15 | The cost of the Coniston ore delivered at the smelters was reckoned at 3s. 6d. a kibble , or more , which figure would improve or worsen depending upon output , and included " getting & shawdring & the carrieage . " |
| 16 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
| 17 | It is in this market-place of buying and selling that the media man shows his real skill and flair . |
| 18 | but still he fought , kicking and struggling until a blow blotted out the world ... |
| 19 | Expectations , too , are part of the theme , based on the idea of giving and receiving and the difference between what people expect and what they get . |
| 20 | Neighbours sit on each other 's doorsteps , chatting and sharing hot punch , jumping over the flames , dancing and carousing until the drink runs out and the embers have died down . |
| 21 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 22 | The carving and sculpture here is outstanding , particularly the apse corbelling and arcading and the cloister capitals and columns ( 406 and 416 ) . |
| 23 | These vans keep coming and going and the man on the cleaning machine is having another go at cleaning the floor . |
| 24 | The drizzle was coming and going and the sun was visible occasionally through the mist and cloud as a red and hazy disc . |
| 25 | Corbett felt refreshed though still wary , pleased that the previous day 's rainclouds had now disappeared and hoping that the Lord Bruce was still in Leith and would grant him an audience . |
| 26 | Then there was much scuffling and grabbing and a lot of talk regarding which lamppost the rope should be thrown over . |
| 27 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 28 | There was no intention of converting Purley Depôt to a bus garage , as although of a more regular shape , its only entrance was on a busy part of the main Brighton Road and over the years there had been a number of near misses with other traffic , when trams were entering or leaving and the local press had conducted a campaign against its dangerous location . |
| 29 | Important factors were : Farmers had no way of knowing or discovering that the seed was defective . |
| 30 | Is the Home Office alleging or claiming that an emergency has arisen since the Conservative party conference , that the Bill must be completed in one day and that it is inconceivable that it could be improved in Committee ? |