Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 2 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 3 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 4 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 5 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 6 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 7 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 8 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
| 9 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 10 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 11 | Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot . |
| 12 | With Rex and Woodchip out of the picture and the forces of darkness set loose upon the land , how can we fail ? |
| 13 | Rose tells me he 's back and peacocking about as a vicar . ’ |
| 14 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 15 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 16 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 17 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 18 | She had packed and checked out of the hotel without seeing either of the two brothers or her cousin . |
| 19 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |
| 20 | The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion . |
| 21 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 22 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 24 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |
| 25 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 26 | The animal has been surveyed and laid off like a map ; and the men have been classified in over thirty specialties and twenty rates of pay , from 16 cents to 50 cents an hour . |
| 27 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 28 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 29 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 30 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |