Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I know what it is , it 's all our knitting machines sending their radio messages to one another and clogging up the air waves . |
| 2 | Kidnapping the whole cage was impossible and knocking out the Headmaster and all the teachers would be difficult . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , ’ Ash was saying , breathing hard and looking down the stair-well as I opened the door . |
| 4 | Luckily , the Devil cares not for checking visitors ' bus passes to see if they 're over-the-hill and struggling down the slope on their Zimmer frames . |
| 5 | Parrott , Merseyside 's sportsman of the year , ran into trouble in only his second visit to the table , cannoning off black and knocking down the red . |
| 6 | Those days she walked slowly , crying already and biting and snuffing back the tears . |
| 7 | In ex. 2 we have a simple pentatonic idea repeated chromatically , ascending and descending up the fretboard . |
| 8 | By the time you get all the crew up on the windward rail , which would be in true wind of 10 – 12 knots , you should be flattening the bottom of the main and opening up the leech . |
| 9 | For years Pakistan 's opponents have made snide remarks about their bowlers getting away with such trickery as seam-picking and scuffing up the ball , ploys which make the ball swerve off the pitch or swing further in the air . |
| 10 | Overwhelmed , he retreated to London , eventually setting up his own label in 1967 and taking on the design directorship for Kangol hats and berets in 1981 . |
| 11 | Within these coastal poleniers an enormous amount of sea ice could form and then is removed to the north dumping enormous amounts of salt into the shelf water making it very dense and setting up the stage for the deep sinking associated with Antarctic . |