Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
| 2 | They we were half riding , half pushing up into the mountains . |
| 3 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 4 | A good many had worked there for years , some going back to the days of her grandfather . |
| 5 | Nor is there anything mystical going on in the evolution of real animals and plants . |
| 6 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 7 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 8 | I funny staring back at the car park , the car park , and the |
| 9 | Red Bank Road Bispham , with open rack 134 coming up from the Depot to go into service as an afternoon ‘ special ’ to the Gynn . |
| 10 | Yeah , so you 'd anticipate some coming in on the A fifty nine , if you went that far north , |
| 11 | I have n't spoken to erm , I mean I only thought this coming along in the street , whether there 's anybody sort of notable , I mean is it , is , is , is there any value in actually having a figurehead type chairman you know , sort of celebrity type |
| 12 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 13 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 14 | In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen . |
| 15 | But could all this messing about with the type of tree affect the taste of the cider : |
| 16 | Its precise effect on the allocation of investment resources would depend on the detailed working out of the disciplines , and the Treasury certainly took no chances on a complete return to the free market in investment capital . |
| 17 | On the day of his death he had done some clearing up at the home he shared with his mother , and refused tea before going out of the house unnoticed . |
| 18 | And it was about that that Peggy now spoke to Mrs White , saying , ‘ I bet you had some clearing up after the mob on Friday night . ’ |
| 19 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 20 | With so much going on at the office , it is a wonder that Mr Lawrence has much time left for anything else . |
| 21 | ‘ I never knew there was so much going on in the world , ’ she said to John one day . |
| 22 | I have an appointment with Dr Dingle at 5 o'clock , so it seemed pointless going back to the Oxfordshire cottage last night . |
| 23 | However , even those murders in real life that rise above the simple snatching up of the kitchen knife in the middle of a husband and wife row are much , much less cunningly contrived than that . |
| 24 | ‘ Sharing is n't attractive any more to us , ’ Bromley says , a verbal throwing in of the towel . |
| 25 | Mr Clive Ponting 's acquittal by a jury in February 1985 , after he had admitted to passing official Government papers to a person not authorised to receive them , the very essence of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , and despite the most explicit summing up by the trial judge that they should convict , raises the question of what motivated the jury . |
| 26 | Lancing 's master-in-charge , John Wilks , described the scoreline as ‘ a perfect summing up of the match — dull ’ . |
| 27 | The event lasted all day , with two heats of ten teams , the top three from each going on to the final . |
| 28 | The 20 teams were put into four pools , with the top two from each going on to the quarter-finals . |
| 29 | I was invigorated and felt seven feet tall going out of the church . |
| 30 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |