Example sentences of "and [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I 'm well aware you do n't have to face single-handed and prattling , blowing your own cor-anglais and generally acting up before a captive crowd of thousands . |
| 2 | Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story . |
| 3 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |
| 4 | He hoped that the tightly packed deuterium atoms would be set in motion , their nuclei bumping into one another and fusing . |
| 5 | To me , who on a good day just about understood that there was no danger of the water 's getting into the wiring system and fusing everything or worse , and was amazed that the record-player did n't run erratically , the whole set-up was a major miracle . |
| 6 | In the cab is a single joystick control which operates all four sections of the arm , including : Lift/lower for the first arm , the same for the second arm , hood angle , and telescoping in and out . |
| 7 | The track was dilated to 28–30F using Teflon ( USCI ) and telescoping metal dilators ( Keymed , Southend-on-Sea , UK ) before inserting an Amplatz Teflon sheath ( Lewis Medical , London , UK ) . |
| 8 | Do not forget Mr Hurd 's record for soothing nerves and conciliating Tory antagonists . |
| 9 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 10 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 11 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 12 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 13 | A not-so-good euphemism for someone who has tried to do him/herself in by hurling him/herself beneath a moving tube train , or someone who has been jostled from a congested platform on to the track , or some kicky kid indulging in Tube surfing-travelling outside the train and hanging on , and falling off , like John Koporo , age 11 , who in 1987 at Kilburn became the sport 's first victim . |
| 14 | ‘ Hullo Miss MacPeake , ’ said wee Danny , standing up and hanging his head . |
| 15 | A wire stretched from the contraption at the top out towards the school and hanging from it was a dangerous-looking wooden basket , big enough to hold a single person . |
| 16 | ‘ Like some coffee ? ’ said Wilcox , taking her coat and hanging it on the back of the door . |
| 17 | Australopithecus is alive and well and hanging round Pete 's Cafe . ’ |
| 18 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 19 | The bodice was plain and ribbed to the waist , and hanging from two loops at the side was a fine red suede belt . |
| 20 | Nick picked up the receiver and listened for a moment , before muttering ‘ Wrong number ’ and hanging up . |
| 21 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 22 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 23 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 24 | And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I just tried to write what it was like for me in Toronto , growing up and hanging out , the suburban adolescent heavy metal North American experience . |
| 27 | Using a medium tension and hanging a weight on the scarf as it is being knitted will make it curl more easily . |
| 28 | She took a towel and hanging it over her arm , she made her way upstairs , her mind spinning with troubled thoughts . |
| 29 | ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg . |
| 30 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |