Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While soccer 's purists quake at the thought of Graham Taylor bringing in the long-ball game , Ferguson insists Dublin 's arrival will not mean a switch to Route One football at Old Trafford . |
| 2 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 3 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 4 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 5 | A room vine climbing up the old chimney-breast … |
| 6 | He drew her against him , his lips seeking out the smooth plane of her cheek , the full , ripe curve of her mouth . |
| 7 | He was trembling now , his back still against the door , his eyes searching out the ill-formed contours within the room . |
| 8 | They travel to Nottingham Forest tomorrow for a game with a real edge to it , with Brian Clough 's side propping up the Premier League . |
| 9 | You could already see those vipers sorting out the Ambre Solaire . |
| 10 | He could see slanting light pointing up the brave thrust of her breasts , emphasising the marvellous trough of her waist above the firm swell of her nates . |
| 11 | Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse . |
| 12 | At snow falling down the blinded door . |
| 13 | The reasons are all too obvious : children in the camps , when asked to draw a picture about their lives at home , almost invariably produce scenes including helicopters bombing their farms or bodies dripping with blood flowing down the local stream . |
| 14 | Twelve of the 30 units making up the new HND in Social Care . |
| 15 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 16 | Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ . |
| 17 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
| 18 | And the Government is likely to spend the Christmas break weighing up the political options before deciding what to do next . |
| 19 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |
| 20 | She moved when he came in , her shoulders sliding up the curved enamel , her breasts breaking the surface . |
| 21 | Mr Glavisky thinks people probably recalled German prisoners filling in the water-logged tank traps in Speke , which were a danger to children . |
| 22 | The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example . |
| 23 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 24 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 25 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 26 | Bacteria and fungi go to work breaking down the dead organisms ' protein into amino acids and converting them into ammonia , a useful source of nutrition . |
| 27 | Neither did he hear Zach repeatedly calling him from outside or the sound of his footsteps running up the tiny pathway to the back door . |
| 28 | Released worldwide on all formats on November 24 ( Sonic Tuesday , apparently ) , once again it sees the animal libber hedgehog taking on the evil Dr Robotnik through a series of worlds ( The Mystic Cave , The Toxic Plant Zone etc ) . |
| 29 | An all-star field will take part in tonight 's Calor Gas Grand Prix in Ballymena town centre with riders from England , Scotland , Wales and the south taking on the local stars . |
| 30 | The former Soviet republics of Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Turkmenistan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan and Ukraine were admitted as new members on Jan. 30 , with Russia taking over the Soviet Union 's seat , bringing the total number of CSCE members to 48 . |