Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's like this … their church owns the property , an ’ it turned out there 's a heap o' genuine folk in the city end of the organisation , who 'd no idea what wuz goin' on out here . |
| 2 | demanding on on |
| 3 | These programs allow you to a ) combine two or more patterns into one and b ) knit multi-coloured jacquard ( that is , program patterns for knitting in up to seven colours in a row . |
| 4 | This would enable you to program an intarsia pattern for knitting in up to seven colours in a row and which is bigger than 60 stitches and 150 rows . |
| 5 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 6 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 7 | Several weeks ago Victor came crashing down out of a tree and on to his back . |
| 8 | There was a thick concrete wall which we were all going to hide behind and we had our helmets on in case any car parts came raining down out of the sky . |
| 9 | If you do n't believe me , check out the opening salvo — ‘ Movin' On Up ’ is joyous R'n'B of the ‘ praise the Lord and say hallelujah ! ’ variety , ‘ Do n't Fight It , Feel It ’ could easily be Technotronic and ‘ Slip Inside This House ’ is on nodding acquaintance with Happy Mondays . |
| 10 | Walking on up to Glencoe I saw a canary at a window with an ‘ I Love Ballachulish ’ sticker on the base of its cage . |
| 11 | It widened but nothing could be seen in the gap , save for the path ahead , winding on down to the valley . |
| 12 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 13 | Now he saw his chance and desperation forced him to take the risk of climbing down on to the line in the darkness . |
| 14 | Ex-Sun Microsystems Inc executive Bill Keating who traipsed off about 18 months ago to become vice president and general manager over at Rational Inc ( UX No 349 ) is now winding down out of that job and consulting with the new Lachman Technology Inc , helping to get that start-up going ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 15 | Whilst they were appearing in Up With the Lark at the Adelphi Theatre , they coped admirably with their filming schedule but were furious when Sickert produced a picture of them called High Steppers . |
| 16 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 17 | He also liked to make people do press-ups , but with their rifles stretched across the tops of their hands ; he would then stand on the rifles so that his entire weight was pressing down on to their fists . |
| 18 | Wedges of red-sashed men were driving in up and down the catwalk , cutting the defenders off into pockets . |
| 19 | I mean , look at me , I were going down Dunscroft there , you know at top of and er I 'm just driving in along and this bloody dog come over |
| 20 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 21 | Because point mutations in K-rase and p53 are common events in colorectal carcinoma , occurring in up to 40% and 67% of tumours , it would be of interest to determine whether p53 and K-ras also cooperate in vivo to produce invasive carcinoma . |
| 22 | A man was actually charged with the crime at a Glasgow police station after walking in out of the blue and making a confession . |
| 23 | Before Anabelle could learn more , however , they heard a splash in the canal and turned to see a little brown head bobbing up out of the water . |
| 24 | They completed a circular walk through the woods , tramping through leaves and bracken and ending up back at the minibus where Sybil announced it was time to go back to Conway House for lunch . |
| 25 | Third place went to Denis McCullough but the hard luck story of the race belonged to Phelim Owens who had to take a slip road at Cardy Corner when lying fourth then rejoined the race in 10th place before ending up back where he had started — in fourth place . |
| 26 | As we turned the corner Mel was ambling up out of an underground car park — he 'd been parking his Rolls-Royce or something . |
| 27 | The pool of light in which they stood was sharply divided from the darkness pressing up around like a stealthy animal . |
| 28 | In less dramatic contexts , for de-clawed cats kept indoors ( and robbed of all outdoor pleasures ) , even the simple act of climbing up on to a chair or a window-ledge may prove hazardous . |
| 29 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 30 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |