Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The developer will use all the senses — seeing , hearing and smelling -when assessing the environment . |
| 2 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
| 3 | getting up and coughing and wheezing and all the rest of it and they actually slept very well last night . |
| 4 | Les Robinson … and Mike Ford are coughing and sneezing and facing fitness checks in the morning … |
| 5 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 6 | Perhaps because of its success , it has been held as a model of scholarly inquiry ; social scientists have tried to emulate what they believed were the methods of physics : formulating a testable hypothesis , setting up an experiment which could be replicated , carefully observing and measuring the results , and proving or disproving the hypothesis . |
| 7 | And he was gone , we did n't even answer , and Caroline was looking after him , and shrugging and looking at me and saying , well , really . |
| 8 | Sometimes when they were in a needy mood , which was most of the time , David would be out in the lobby at Advision Studios where we were recording , and they would be cuddling and cooing and wooing — it was disgusting . |
| 9 | and hooing and cooing and sidling through the front teeth , |
| 10 | People think women who do not want to marry unfeminine , people think women who do want to marry immodest — people combine both opinions by regarding it as unfeminine for women not to look forward longingly to wifehood as the hope and purpose of their lives , and ridiculing and condemning any individual woman of their acquaintance whom they suspect of entertaining such a longing . |
| 11 | Women trapped at home sewing and gluing and stapling are at the dustbin end of dreadful employment practices . |
| 12 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 13 | There was humping and heaving at Les Halles , and unloading and loading in the Cours Mirabeau , not to mention the display that had to be set up afresh daily . |
| 14 | John Kenny played with drama and panache a whole range of effects from his first entry , in which his breath metamorphosed into sound , to talking and singing while playing and producing chords . |
| 15 | Everyone was shouting and singing and chanting . |
| 16 | In the adjoining wall , strangely enough , there was a window with a curtain across it , so we pulled this aside to look and there were all these men dancing and singing and wearing horns on their heads . |
| 17 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |
| 18 | Everybody knitted , children on their way to school , shepherds minding their flocks , men on their way to market , all would knit , and women would gather and sit by the fires at night knitting and singing and reading aloud . |
| 19 | We all marched through the streets of Parma cheering and singing and carrying banners which displayed Mussolini 's slogans and the names of the places conquered . |
| 20 | Acting and clowning around and singing and laughing in Share My Lettuce , Kenneth Williams was a British star . |
| 21 | But he 'll go on applying the skills learnt on those days in the Nottingham library to a wider cricketing canvas , and using that cast accumulated knowledge to enlighten others — not least the thousands of schoolchildren who visit Trent Bridge in parties each year : ‘ Last season we had several hundred children through on the day when Derek Randall needed one run to complete his 20,000 for the county — and I made certain they all knew about the landmark . |
| 22 | Similarly the National Portrait Gallery , which was permanently established in 1896 , and the Dictionary of National Biography ( 18851990 ) stand as counterparts at the level of individual portrayal and biography , to the work of categorization and charting that went into producing monumental works on the national history , language , and literature such as the Cambridge History of English Literature ( 1907–16 ) and the New ( later Oxford ) English Dictionary ( 1884–1928 ) . |
| 23 | The ‘ apparatus of rule ’ consists of adjudication and administering and enforcing the law . |
| 24 | We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue . |
| 25 | Inshore , Wilkie , lying lazily along the water , propped by flickering hands , watched the to and fro of their dancing and circling and smiled to himself . |
| 26 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 27 | Visible ideas are signs and indications of tangible ideas , and have a constant and universal connection with them which was ‘ learnt at our first entrance into the world ; and ever since , almost every moment of our lives , it has been occurring to our thoughts , and fastening and striking deeper on our minds . ’ |
| 28 | It should have been cold and raining as befitted a funeral . |
| 29 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 30 | Sam was gratified to be alone with his father and identified only the improvization and daring that lay in the situation , not the guilt and apprehension . |