Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This prevented the through draught which was valued for winnowing and meant that carts had to back out , so it was a less popular arrangement . |
| 2 | It may also swell the juice within the grapes to bursting point , ruining the fruit for winemaking unless harvested and transported to the press while still frozen , which would hardly be practicable for any significant area of vines affected by frost . |
| 3 | He had no nerves and no shame about singing or performing when ‘ the necessary ’ was in short supply . |
| 4 | Gooseberries , for example , can be picked for cooking or processing when they are still hard and green , flowers are often cut while still in bud and many roots or salad crops are at their most palatable when young and tender . |
| 5 | Alone again , and knowing that a cup of tea was what was offered only after screaming and shouting and throwing all her nice toys on the floor . |
| 6 | The creme gel formulation is ideal for smoothing and protecting and costs £4.50 — call for your nearest salon . |
| 7 | There are too many distractions here , too many excuses for looking and thinking and seeing people and delaying painting . ’ |
| 8 | Learning from experience is such a fundamental process that it is easy to take it for granted and assume that having experiences and learning from them are synonymous . |
| 9 | This raises questions about ways of seeing and remembering that are important to fiction . |
| 10 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |
| 11 | Tiny bas-relief cameos are produced by the unique processes of figuremaking and ornamenting and many of the subjects are taken from Greek and Roman mythology . |
| 12 | From somewhere below , in the stairwell where Barbara knew that Cardiff must have died , were the nightmare sounds of bellowing and screeching and thrashing shadows . |
| 13 | I was thinking of all the work I needed to do on Masquerade ; all the painstaking hours of sawing and planing and caulking and rigging . |
| 14 | Crawling around the balcony en route to the spiral staircase , the sounds of banging and sawing and general hullabaloo from below had become too curious-making to resist . |
| 15 | But it should be said at the outset that none of the terms ‘ check ’ , ‘ control ’ or ‘ render accountable ’ has a single clear meaning : there are several ways of checking and controlling and several types of accountability . |
| 16 | He had pleaded guilty to two offences of driving while disqualified and two matters of no insurance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They had forgotten to lock up , ever eager to hurry back to the endless rounds of torturing and giggling that are the happy lot of a sadistic underling . |
| 19 | What is n't is A Winter Tan 's capacity to move us in another way , in particular with a riveting and lacerating piece of acting that underlines and illustrates its argument . |
| 20 | There was a confusion of bodies , a wave of pushing and shoving as the crowd recoiled . |
| 21 | She knew that he had two grown-up daughters of his own and would scarcely have approved of aiding and abetting or even allowing a girl of Liza 's age to be left in any compromising situation with a young married man . |
| 22 | He then explained that William Tidbury could not be convicted of aiding and abetting because he had not been charged with that crime . |
| 23 | On the other hand , used aright , it can help very much in the understanding of mathematical operations , because far more many and widespread examples can be dealt with very quickly , and they can for example erm get a feel of the result of multiplying or dividing or whatever it , it is , numbers of quite different sizes . |
| 24 | No one must be false to that oath , but in order to return a collective verdict , the verdict of you all , there must necessarily be argument , and a certain amount of give and take and adjustment of views within the scope of the oath you have taken , and it makes for great public inconvenience and expense if jurors can not agree owing to the unwillingness of one of their number to listen to the arguments of the rest . |
| 25 | They were destroying something we dreamed of owning and playing but had no prospect of affording at the time . |
| 26 | His dilemma continues to be one of deciding whether to attack or to stay back , and to discover how to execute a charge successfully . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Terrified of choking and terrified that the rope would give way , that she would fall and be eaten alive by those metal teeth , she screwed her eyes tight and prayed . |
| 29 | It is in this market-place of buying and selling that the media man shows his real skill and flair . |
| 30 | Anyway , and it was all such a , a resounding success so I , I was regaled with all the details of what she , and in what she had indulged and er , she said she went in more for the pi er she did n't go in for erm aromatherapy and the reflexology and the facials and the manicures and things , she went in for loads of bicycling and exercising and er and steam baths and things . |