Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia , sleeping hardly at all and eating only when a worried Myra stood over her , got through them as best she could . |
| 2 | This can be done in two ways , either by giving a description of a world for which the principle fails and proving formally that the description is consistent , or informally by appeal to a counterexample . |
| 3 | Barbara Stanwyck spent her whole career suffering and dying just because the dreamership could n't stand to see a woman come first . ’ |
| 4 | But ‘ Winters ’ hauled England up a second-half mountain , dragging his pack into overdrive and tackling non-stop as the Boks came out of a half-time huddle screeching defiance and ready to build on a 16–11 lead . |
| 5 | In recent years the habit of the All Blacks leaving together and returning together after a trip to Europe has disappeared . |
| 6 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee revealed its own view of the matter by firmly rejecting this proposal and recommending instead that the maximum penalty for non-consensual buggery of a male should be increased . |
| 7 | WITH the ice cracking and groaning underfoot and the wind etching their faces , Robert Swan stood at the North Pole and turned to the woman for whom he had just walked to the end of the earth . |
| 8 | Thus , inter-war English studies was devoted to professional scholarship , research , and publishing rather than a programme of cultural intervention . |
| 9 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 10 | If the all-provident mother of the hunter-gatherer societies had been lost with the coming of agriculture and weaning so that a divine substitute had had to be found in heaven in the shape of the mother-goddess , then eventually a real , human substitute had been found on earth in the person of the all-powerful emperor or king whose granaries could supply in reality what the opulent breasts of the divine mother promised in phantasy — namely , reassurance against oral anxiety and the fear of hunger . |
| 11 | He punched a goal into his own net in Glasgow and this time was caught off his line and flailing backwards as the ball sailed over him . |
| 12 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 13 | There is a balance between getting the plans up and running quickly and a protracted consultation procedure . |
| 14 | As regular readers will know , the core to my teaching is one basic thing ; to feel the clubhead through your hands , which in turn means feeling and knowing exactly where the clubhead is throughout the swing . |
| 15 | They walked towards the unsteady steps , and a figure took shape out of the darkness , weaving as it came and blinking dazedly as the lantern was lifted to illuminate its face . |
| 16 | I dropped my cords and squatted down , leaning back against the five-star pump and breathing heavily as the pool of steaming piss collected on the bark-rough concrete of the fuel apron . |
| 17 | Worriedly judging her moment , and hoping fervently that the other two heard nothing , she slipped out behind the third man , and cracked him over the head with the cutters . |
| 18 | In Davos and St Moritz , the areas are so widely spread and rewarding individually that the idea of linking them scarcely arises . |
| 19 | In addition , there is no protection against the old device of refusing admission to a solicitor ( or doctor ) and asserting afterwards that the prisoner did not ask for him or even that he had refused to see him . |
| 20 | We pray that your body on earth may be a healing body , praying and working so that the church is united in your service . |
| 21 | talking afterwards about the team ministry and working together and the problems and his experiences . |
| 22 | In response to that application the local authority social worker filed a statement opposing the father 's application and proposing instead that the children be placed with long-term foster parents . |