Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIVERPOOL super-featherweight Jimmy Owens , who in August was involved in an acrimonious split with his manager Carl Moorcroft , has come up fighting with the most important contest and biggest payday of his career . |
| 2 | The ultimate criterion for the presence of pollution in law , in contrast with other more familiar forms of offence , is a test carried out according to the supposedly ‘ objective ’ precepts of natural scientific ( predominantly chemical ) analysis . |
| 3 | They just let you go on buying on the never-never . |
| 4 | And so finely tuned is its sense of hearing and its appreciation of timing that it will go on feeding until the very last minute , only springing to safety after the rattler has launched its otherwise deadly final strike . |
| 5 | You 're in danger of every time you 're praising that person , they 're going to be sitting back waiting for the straight away , so you could n't , if you go up to somebody and they 've generally done a superb job and you ca n't fault him , and he knows he 's done a really good job , but he 's just sitting back waiting for you to way what , what you 've done wrong . |
| 6 | When he played the old rustic Arthur Fallowfield , radio audiences all over Britain — to say nothing of those listening to the BBC 's various overseas services — sat up waiting for the virtually immortal words , ‘ the answer lies in the soil ’ . |