Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently warming hugs can be most ungiving and greedily grasping for the self . |
| 2 | Cells were detached from flasks by first washing three times with Ca 2 + - and Mg 2 + -free phosphate buffered saline and then incubating for three minutes at 37°C with the same phosphate buffered saline to which 0.02% ( w/v ) EDTA had been added . |
| 3 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 4 | In the late Carboniferous Coal Measures of Lancashire , a fossil tree has been found , 38 feet high and still standing in its living position . |
| 5 | This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg . |
| 6 | Politically , between-ness ‘ help[s] to abolish the frontiers of misunderstanding with frequent changes of partners loyalties convictions , free and easily stepping over the old boundaries ’ ( 43/437 ) . |
| 7 | Built in the hybrid style which has been dubbed ‘ artisan mannerism ’ , the house is exuberantly detailed and entirely lacking in the Italianate sophistication of the court style of Inigo Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | He learned this lesson this year in giving Kelly his chance pre-season and then sticking with him , even though many observers would have brought Kerslake or Sterland ( any news on him ? ) back . |
| 9 | This belief in a woman 's heightened sexuality during her period may also have contributed to her being considered dangerous and hence polluting to all males . |
| 10 | All the time , she had been half listening and even replying to Gazzer as he chatted on about Simon , the police , and Bella . |
| 11 | ‘ Not only will everyone be rushing back to the city today , after the weekend vacation , but I understand Ross has been on the phone , getting the air-conditioning fixed and also seeing about someone to help you with the kids . |
| 12 | On his journey , fearful and probably suffering from reactionary depression , he slept a night under a broom bush , where he dreamed that an angel touched him on the shoulder and bade him rise and eat . |
| 13 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 14 | He was tortured and temperamental and hugely demanding of everyone around him . |
| 15 | In between you have elite , offbeat , unusual , mass and so on but they all lie somewhere between these extremes in terms of totally interacting and totally ignoring in many cases . |
| 16 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 17 | Noisy , dark and usually reeking with the smells wafting from the ‘ squat ’ toilets and the piles of half-rotten food which students attempt to cook for themselves to save money , the campus dormitories are uncomfortable places to live and study . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if there is significant excess capacity at the agreed output , and the agreed price is well above marginal cost , then a significant output expansion would be both feasible and profitable and so reneging on the agreement could appear attractive . |
| 19 | ‘ The life that goes out in love to all is the life that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power . ’ |
| 20 | Fleury , exhausted and still quaking from his gallant dash beneath the sepoys ' glistening bayonets , had slumped down with his back to the new rampart . |
| 21 | The sky was low and constantly shifting as different layers of grey and black cloud were dragged around by gusty winds . |
| 22 | This is very important because once you start to perceive yourself in negative terms you will probably start to act in a negative way , being quarrelsome and finally looking to food for comfort . |
| 23 | She saw herself , wan and bravely smiling in the hospital bed , with Mark grave and repentant at the bedside … |
| 24 | Chlorinated hydrocarbons , which are some of the most persistent and environmentally damaging of the industrial chemicals , and the industrial organochlorides known as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) , are particularly soluble in fatty tissues . |
| 25 | As a photographer , she was unique and sometimes terrifying in her decision to publicly share her experience as victim of the social discourses of the family , health and the law . |
| 26 | Her hand rose to her lips , soft and still tingling from the hard pressure of his possessive mouth . |
| 27 | She spent little and even caring for her lodgers generously she did not need half the income she found she earned . |
| 28 | Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment . |
| 29 | And now he 's forty , unmarried and still living with that old termagant he calls Mother . ’ |
| 30 | But if we want to consider how life arose , we have to look back a further thousand million years beyond even the earliest micro-fossils , to a time when the earth was completely lifeless and still cooling after its birth . |