Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a 90-minute presentation he and other directors also proposed classifying the company 's borrowings as A or B category . |
| 2 | Early methods of breaking rock and winning hard ore often involved heating the face with fires of wood , bracken , gorse bushes and any other dry combustible material . |
| 3 | The council even suggested resolving the dispute by building a meeting-house next to St Paul 's for him and his followers to use . |
| 4 | ‘ The new job mainly entailed selling the company 's equipment to the big stores in the Los Angeles area and to some of the bigger golf courses . |
| 5 | They approached the steps and Rain fastidiously avoided touching the rail as she descended . |
| 6 | Merseysider Glenice Inglis-Moore vividly described seeing the city that is home to Hollywood being torched by rioters . |
| 7 | The changes also included reducing the sentence for security offences from life imprisonment to 10 years . |
| 8 | The food is very wholesome with free-range eggs and lambs , salmon from the River Tweed , local shell fish and pigs once seen roaming the orchard , featuring on the menu . |
| 9 | It can be money well spent making the place smarter and safer . |
| 10 | House of Representatives and Senate Democratic leaders intentionally delayed sending the bill to the White House prior to the election after some Democrats and special-interest groups became convinced that Bush might sign the bill once free of campaign pressures . |
| 11 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 12 | Then Wyllie just kept thumping the ball downfield and soon time ran out on Musselburgh , whose only crumb of comfort is that their coach , Raymond Clark , who had planned to call it a day , is now likely to stay on next season . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , or fortunately , depending on your point of view , these towers of power usually seen gracing the backline of mega guitarists cost a severe amount of wonga . |
| 14 | Even after such a long absence from home , Leopold could not bear to waste any opportunity of showing off his brilliant children , so , instead of going straight back to Salzburg , they took a tortuous route through Dijon , Lyons , Switzerland , Donaueschingen and Augsburg to Munich , where Leopold even contemplated extending the trip to Italy . |