Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 2 | Later , as a result of other movements in the rocks , fissures opened up in the slowly solidifying granite . |
| 3 | ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) . |
| 4 | ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) . |
| 5 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 6 | Will Douglas ordered Scott of Rankilburn to go back to the now blazing village , the cottage thatches burning readily , and round up a crowd of men , women and children . |
| 7 | As the demand for cotton goods rose ( partly owing to economic growth caused by advances in agricultural techniques and extended foreign trade ) cotton production shifted from the putting-out system to mills being set up in the rapidly urbanising towns . |
| 8 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 9 | The fact that they tapped in to the rapidly expanding European market undoubtedly helped the giant US firms to offset some of the effects of slow domestic growth . |
| 10 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |
| 11 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |