Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
| 2 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 3 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 4 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 5 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to controversial royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 6 | So much so that many people internal to Digital never bother venturing out into the big bad world of USENET for their kicks . |
| 7 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 8 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 9 | Basically the paper suggested that we should consider moving away from the tax-financed National Health Service to private health insurance . |
| 10 | But in many circuits , significant source and load resistances will need factoring out from the upper and lower arm values respectively ( and scaled pro-rata ) , otherwise the implied accuracy will be false ) . |
| 11 | Now , are there any aspects about the isomerism you want clarifying apart from the whole lot ? |
| 12 | With everyone that counts stacking up on the same side , only an optimist would fight for honesty . |
| 13 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 14 | The name of the game , ‘ Grandmother 's Footsteps ’ is already a hint : the young and fit creeping up on the old , the halt and the lame . |
| 15 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 16 | Rachel sank shaking on to the white sofa and buried her hot face in her hands . |
| 17 | Right , anything else that 's erm needs raising out of the last meeting ? |
| 18 | ‘ I rang them first thing , but no one fitting your description has been reported missing anywhere in the entire country as yet . |
| 19 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 20 | The very term ‘ course ’ implies a definite path of study ; the student is not going to go wandering all over the intellectual map . |
| 21 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 22 | But when the death coach came galloping out of the wild black sky to take Darby O'Gill to hell , it fairly put the fear of God in me ; more so than any clergyman before or since , however vivid their threats of eternal damnation . |
| 23 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 24 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 25 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 26 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 27 | I put going down to the English Centre and using the computer |
| 28 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 29 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 30 | Stop go stop going on about the bloody microphone ! |