Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 2 | Well we were building roads up . |
| 3 | Bring up all your little highlight tones , etc. at the post flash stage using times up to max.flash . |
| 4 | Bring up all your little highlight tones , etc. at the post flash stage using times up to max.flash . |
| 5 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 6 | ‘ 'Ere , no more ! ’ yelled the boy , seeing Naseby about to follow suit . |
| 7 | She said , Well , she said , The truth is you know we keep bringing sticks in and that , but he 's got no er he 's got no fire , he 's got no coal , he ca n't he ca n't make a fire . |
| 8 | It was n't that he was n't playing well , it just seemed like he could n't be arsed chasing back and helping Kelly out , I do n't know if he was knackered though . |
| 9 | So we can have like commercial breaks sticking adverts in between . |
| 10 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 11 | He talked about those who had been fired by the spirit but had lost touch with the soul ; about unassimilated shadows which foisted evil on to enemies rather than bringing responsibility back home ; he talked of tight-ropes and sword-bridges and the narrow course between the clashing rocks . |
| 12 | Sir Denis will be able to have his round of golf from now on without the hassle of sneaking clubs out the side exit of Number 10 . |
| 13 | The Unit was established in 1982 with a primary aim of experimenting with Primary Health Care , using strategies around : |
| 14 | ‘ There 's no need to look so worried , ’ he observed softly , yanking Isabel back to the present . |
| 15 | Weeping from fatigue when bringing coals up , singing for joy then going back with empty baskets . |
| 16 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 17 | She stormed off and away and the last thing she saw was Felipe helping Mitch out of the pool , his dark face still lightened by a very wide grin . |
| 18 | I think they may be rethinking that , and maybe bringing proposals back to you , but that 's the crunch . |
| 19 | Bringing tea out on the lawn , |
| 20 | Hillier also thanked the media for spurring Arsenal back to form after two opening defeats . |
| 21 | Sure , we do cheat nature all the time , sponging ewes , bringing animals in out of the weather , using artificial lighting and growing out of season greenhouse crops . |
| 22 | Bringing data on to one or more common sets of areas allows much fuller use of the information . |
| 23 | Lord Mayor , the Labour Group in have a way of bandying words about without any action . |
| 24 | Virginia supplied wryly , climbing out of the car and helping Lucy out . |
| 25 | Before she could jerk herself out of her shocked paralysis , he had angled his head and driven his ruthless , demanding lips down to collide with hers in an explosion of sensation . |
| 26 | Most of you wo n't remember the time , and I certainly do n't , some of you will , you 'll be familiar with the er , healing accounts , seeing pictures on , er either in magazines or on the television news , in in old news reels , of that time when Neville Chamberlain stepped out of an aeroplane , and he 's just been to Germany and , and had a meeting with Hitler . |
| 27 | When morning came , the Russian saw he had fallen from the ledge and was hanging upside down , his ice face and the rock face united in a carezza . |
| 28 | Near the village of Higaturu , the mangled remains of a vehicle were found hanging upside down in a tree . |
| 29 | He was hanging upside down , and he was so soaked in blood that it was a few more seconds before I discovered the severed artery was somewhere in his left leg . |
| 30 | Then she went and spoiled everything by behaving as if pissed , lurching backwards and forwards till she ended up hanging upside down from my finger , gripping so tightly she almost drew blood . |