Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without an art school training , Romanowski , now in his late 20s , has taught himself the methods of the masters through reproductions in books and paintings hanging on gallery walls . |
| 2 | Pre-cut panels of mirrors sold for hanging on wardrobe or cupboard doors are often surprisingly cheap compared to custom-cut pieces and they can be hung side by side or used in certain places to look like slit windows in a wall . |
| 3 | But the girl was hanging on Roman 's arm , gazing up into his face with such an adoring expression that Caroline found herself feeling quite sick … |
| 4 | He 's surprised to find such jokes hanging on hospital walls . |
| 5 | Michael Knowles saw BPN 's greatest challenge as one of maintaining production and increasing reserves volumes , while bringing down development costs . |
| 6 | He attacked the claims of Prime Minister John Major and Chancellor Norman Lamont that bringing down inflation would get Britain out of the recession . |
| 7 | Of course you are absolutely right to emphasise the crucial importance of bringing down inflation ; the current deep recession will achieve this . |
| 8 | While the Chancellor has been concentrating — unsuccessfully — on bringing down inflation , unemployment is raging and further factory closures and redundancies have been announced nearly every week since he came to office . |
| 9 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 10 | The import of 1,000,000 tonnes of wheat , reportedly aimed at bringing down grain prices , was announced on Jan. 16 . |
| 11 | The programme , which can be quickly and easily established , will allow us to start bringing down unemployment immediately . |
| 12 | With Labour now likely to bury their tax madness in their charge to the right , the Tories have to stay well ahead of them and consolidate their position as the party committed to cutting public waste and bringing down tax rates . |
| 13 | In addition to bringing down interest rates by another two per cent , he has to establish the right monetary policy after sticking to the wrong one for two years . |
| 14 | Unless and until the Government gives a lead by bringing down interest rates generally . |
| 15 | We had to stand in the pissing down rain , with the cockney scum , and whats more I could only see one goal , and not even the goal that we scored in . |
| 16 | We race across Lliwedd on frost rimed ledges and hurl ourselves down towards Llydaw 's outlet , slipping on frozen streamlets , crashing down scree , pausing to drink the silence . |
| 17 | The Regional Council is engaged in drawing down Capital grant assistance under RECHAR and mainstream ERDF programmes . |
| 18 | Jesus , he 's sucking in air at the back and wuffing it out at the front . |
| 19 | His voice became hoarse and the audience began to notice that he was sucking in air loudly between sentences . |
| 20 | The serjeant rubbed his chin and looked at them and then at the friar , sucking in air noisily through his blackened teeth . |
| 21 | However , the chordates were not quite fish , since they were without jaws or fins and fed by sucking in water and whatever nutrients it contained . |
| 22 | The nineteenth century was also the era of the Great City , sucking in population from the countryside to staff factories , shops , and homes . |
| 23 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 24 | That communal release of euphoria across Blackheath results from the combination of the final arrival of ‘ the Moment ’ , plus the increase in energy which easing down training will have brought . |
| 25 | Every night both he and he and others packed into the tigh dubh , huddled around peat fires , supping the broth and listening to the wind skirting the stone walls and bellowing down stone wells . |
| 26 | In addition to fronting , TNCs resorted to public sale of shares to dilute ownership and retain effective control , technical agreements with Nigerian partners , negotiation of exemptions from the authorities , the two company strategy , changes in voting rules to disenfranchise local partners , dividing boards of directors , bringing in expatriate executives , bribery and simply ignoring the law . |
| 27 | Quoting Machiavelli 's prediction on what could happen to anyone committed to bringing in change , Sir Ron warns that ‘ whenever those who are hostile have the opportunity to attack , they do it like partisans , while the others defend lukewarmly , in such wise that the innovator is endangered along with them ’ . |
| 28 | We believe the main motivation for bringing in PRP is to save on the wages bill , but evidence from the private sector shows that in the short term at least it actually increases costs . |
| 29 | It 's the brainchild of a local landscape artist , who 's also responsible for bringing in Genesis , after hearing a song about railway workmen on their latest album . |
| 30 | This would be done by bringing in metal tanks , flooding them and adding filtration and ventilation . |