Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waving to him , Mungo got on with sanding the unfinished side of the gate . |
| 2 | He wanted men to go on with living the good life . |
| 3 | But we almost got down to saying the other day that probably need to have an action plan or a structure for the pre-meeting as well . |
| 4 | For several years their task was to open and close the trap doors which were essential for controlling the circulation of air , then at about the age of twelve they moved on to pushing the underground wagons . |
| 5 | He moved on from attacking the general principle of lists which had no apparent critical authority to citing individual examples of how books sometimes needed a mediator , most often a teacher , for their message to make sense . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've tackled it head on by letting the main character know that he is being written about . |
| 7 | A large number of the buyers ' pigs died from an infection , E. Coli , triggered off by eating the mouldy pig nuts . |
| 8 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 9 | Very chronic problems can be speeded up by applying the same solution as that taken by mouth , externally to the back , thighs and lower legs . |
| 10 | In Kufra , for example , Zuwaya cadres drew back from imposing the full rigours of socialist regulation on members of opposed Zuwaya groups ; but in Ajdabiya — closer to Tripoli , more heterogeneous because swollen by immigration — Magharba cadres did not refrain from threatening Zuwaya landlords with expropriation ( although by 1979 they had not put their threats into action ) . |
| 11 | At this stage the channel cables were not actually connected to the peripherals so that testing of the processor and channels could be carried out without affecting the existing systems . |
| 12 | The calibration is carried out by mounting the magnetometer core centrally in the coils and adjusting the peak-to-peak output while reversing the coil current , set to a constant value appropriate to the range being calibrated . |
| 13 | The CLO test ( Delta-West Ltd , Bentley , Western Australia ) was carried out by placing the antral biopsy specimen into the gel pellet , and reviewing the slide for the positive red colour at 3 and 24 hours . |
| 14 | Most of human progress seems to have come about by making the contrary assumption that nature can be improved upon by artifice of one kind or another . |
| 15 | Now , they have come round to adopting the Indian selection policy with the ever-improving off-spin of Hick now regarded as part of their frontline attack . |
| 16 | The circumstances in which a break with the past and the need for a fresh start come about vary from country to country , but in almost every case in modern times countries have a Constitution for the very simple and elementary reason that they wanted , for some reason , to begin again and so they put down in writing the main outline , at least , of their proposed system of government . |
| 17 | An image , an acoustic picture is built up by scanning the focal dot over the specimen 's surface . |
| 18 | Because he 's European , he 's bald and the opposite of everything Kirk was and he 's always so messed up about making the right decision … ’ |
| 19 | I get fed up with cooking the same old thing — I like it if I can experiment . |
| 20 | Ballesteros dropped out after bogeying the first sudden-death hole and Mize and Norman continued . |
| 21 | The evolution of the biosphere — indeed the very existence of the biosphere — came about by taming the worst excesses of incoming solar radiation by screening out the more harmful rays . |
| 22 | If every drop of water was drained off after closing the main stop cock , three could be no dreaded flood . |
| 23 | The coloured transparent stones could all be shown off by using the old technique of rubbing and polishing . |
| 24 | When clear of the top of the T , finish off by passing the last but one wrap over your finger tip to form a loop , pass round again and slip the end through the loop and pull tight , and the elasticity will hold everything tight . |
| 25 | This wastage can be shown up by comparing the theoretical mass balance with the actual mass balance . |
| 26 | This kind of deradicalization usually ends up by disorganizing the working class , since pursuing broad coalitions tends to break up proletarian solidarity and fragment socialism into workers ' particular interests under redistributive capitalism . |
| 27 | But Sartre 's own text here develops a dialogism in the tension between these two possibilities which becomes an increasingly dominant characteristic of his regressive-progressive method and ends up by detotalizing the very totalization which he sought to prove . |
| 28 | When a computer has a number of data.types , many operation codes are used up in providing the same arithmetic operation for operands with different formats . |
| 29 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 30 | They turned back before reaching the roofless church in the middle of the old graveyard out on the edge of land . |