Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 2 | Lucien , keeping close behind , noticed that Tavalouze 's robe was a little stained , and his hair was as unshaped and straggling as a beggar 's . |
| 3 | They were the harmless copying the harmful and benefiting from the deception . |
| 4 | There the cries of the watersellers and the buzz of taxis came wafting on the wind , strident and echoing across the dirty water . |
| 5 | Worrying about people 's comments instead of keeping calm and concentrating on the flying and on getting down safely is often the root cause of a bad landing . |
| 6 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 7 | Do n't go about much ; no late returning in crowded streets from Earl 's Court or elsewhere ; no dissipating jabber and smoking and drinking with the Andrews [ where Helen was employed ] . |
| 8 | That temper was raised higher still when he was finally allowed through and found Matchsticks already waiting , idly smoking and flicking through a copy of Lui . |
| 9 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 10 | Child care research should help practitioners distinguish what is grave and enduring from the less serious and transient . |
| 11 | The photograph was brown and curling at the edges . |
| 12 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 13 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 14 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |
| 15 | The columns were part of an octastyle portico , each 48 feet high and standing on a 22 feet podium . |
| 16 | You are happy ? " she asked the dogs when they returned , relieved and refreshed , to hop bright-eyed and panting into the car . |
| 17 | One hundred and ten people infected with HIV reported 119 children , of whom 60 were dependent — that is , less than 16 years old and living with a parent . |
| 18 | As Derek Brown of Birchfield , who at 13 years old and speculating on a career in athletics , spending two evenings and a Sunday morning training , said : ‘ I do n't let it bother my school work 'cause I can get it all done in my other time , but this [ athletics ] is what I 'd really like to do ; I keep setting myself goals every year to get to the top . ’ |
| 19 | Thankfully , though , there still remained one stark difference between the two men ; because where Luther had a cruel and vicious streak in his character , David was a gentle soul , generous and accommodating to a fault . |
| 20 | ‘ Cuj ach , ’ one of the slaves begged , breaking free and looking towards the travellers . |
| 21 | And anytime they got in a fix , they called on the children to lift paper masks ( given out free and serving as a programme on the reverse ) to their faces and give a special Care Bear Stare at the stage to overcome Coldheart 's evil intent . |
| 22 | When the exercises finished for the day , he relaxed into numbness , his mind free and floating on a gently rocking tide . |
| 23 | Then , larger than life , so vivid she might almost have reached out and touched herself , there she was , transformed , hardly recognizable : teeth bared in a grin of manic glee , her eyes white-hot and blazing like a berserk android in a film she had seen once . |
| 24 | Determined , eager , brave and lusting for the real thing , |
| 25 | There is a tax difference as between private investors buying such gilts direct and buying via a fund , such as ours , in that the former strategy is exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 26 | It is hard to escape the implication that a major source of this taboo is the sense that the priest kneeling down and washing women 's ‘ naked ’ feet would be somehow both sexual and polluting to the sacred . |
| 27 | Jesus is seen as British and belonging to the British . |
| 28 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 29 | The MSG promotes contacts between academics , civil servants , Bank of England officials , private bankers , stockbrokers , and others interested and working in the fields of money and banking , finance , and macroeconomic policy . |
| 30 | It is healthy ; it is strong ; and I think it will continue to grow and become even more exciting and challenging in the future . |