Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danish schools whose heads do not see themselves as curriculum leaders are not necessarily sunk in apathy or mechanically carrying out the dictates of a central programme . |
| 2 | WANTED ON VOYAGE WHETHER YOU 'RE SAILING , STROLLING OR JUST SOAKING UP THE RAYS , SUMMER 'S ESSENTIAL DRESSING STARTS HERE |
| 3 | ‘ Are youse ordering , or just blocking up the bar ? ’ said a smiling , thirsty man . |
| 4 | The thirty pupils or more making up the group move around together in the school during the school breaks . |
| 5 | Instead of spending $7 million on back-up equipment to catch the particles that its existing scrubbing plant could not cope with , it spent $1.7 million by periodically spraying its outdoor piles of iron ore and coal , by paving or periodically wetting down the company roads , by planting trees and grass to trap wind-blown particulates , and arranging shuttle buses so that employees reduced the use of their own vehicles around the site . |
| 6 | Talking can often get us out of sticky situations : talking sense to somebody , calming an explosive situation , giving the person a chance to back off without losing pride , or even pointing out the consequences or pointlessness of the whole exercise . |
| 7 | Otherwise you will end up sacrificing expensive sewn slings or else chopping up the climbing rope itself . |
| 8 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 9 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 10 | It was worse than ever getting up the companion , much worse than last time . |
| 11 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 12 | The completed installation requires no maintenance other than occasionally wiping down the soffit vent to ensure that the large insect screened grille remains clear of obstructions |
| 13 | The curtains were not drawn half across the window and so closing out the light as most curtains were wont to do , but were wide apart showing , of all things , a piece of grassland parched by the sun but , nevertheless , still giving evidence that it was grass by the strip in the shadow of the house . |
| 14 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 15 | This was in view of the company 's established reputation in providing environmental services safely and responsibly in pest control , clinical waste disposal , property conservation , timber pre-treatment , air cleaning equipment , water and air conditioning servicing , and generally carrying out the types of work that other companies are reluctant to undertake . |
| 16 | Processing the data and analysing the results Having collected all the completed questionnaires or interview schedules , it is time to process the data , putting answers into categories , adding up totals , and generally finding out the pattern of the responses and expressing them in statistical terms . |
| 17 | I ai n't got no money , but I do n't reckon they 'll mind me sitting there and just looking out the window . |
| 18 | And if just blowing up the tyres means you have a tiny bit more thre er tread on the road and it is a tiny bit . |
| 19 | Choppy 's comments about schools in urban areas is quite interesting , because the first one was actually in Lincolnshire , which in no terms could be regarded as an urban area , and quickly looking down the list — and there are actually about sixty throughout the country — an awful lot of them have been in rural heartlands like Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | Then , as the players came thundering down the boards , she joined the stampede , trying to steal the ball and nearly bringing down the pony of a fat child with pigtails , whose mother promptly started yelling at Daisy . |
| 21 | If you are waiting for post-feminists to hasten to your rescue , girding their loins and hairy-leggedly taking on the Viz comics and Dennis Potters of this world on your behalf , I would suggest that you do n't hold your breath . |
| 22 | If the function is seen as the delivery of a service to carers and hence taking on the role of respite care rather than that of aiming for functional improvement then this could have import for the type of staff , ie specifically trained , ratio of staff and the drawing of expertise from other fields , ie occupational therapists . |
| 23 | If your engine is fitted with a viscous coupled cooling fan and the viscous unit is faulty after running the engine fast for a short time and then slowing down the fan continues to spin freely and even speeds up . |
| 24 | Trees cut her view for part of the way and when she could see the street door leading to her flat she noticed a man dawdling by , looking up and down the pavement and then strolling back the way he had come . |
| 25 | She 's acting more naturally to the gusts , leaning out and then easing out the sheet . |
| 26 | Drag and Drop , a facility to move and copy text by selecting it and then holding down the mouse button , is now included . |
| 27 | There are concrete operational thinkers — those who can only begin to solve such a problem in concrete operational terms by drawing physical or mental images of the boxes and then counting up the total . |
| 28 | Some groups appreciate a formal input in lecture form but other methods may be used e.g. asking participants to reflect on language they would need when holidaying or living in a country such as Greece or China , and then drawing out the theory from the discussion . |
| 29 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 30 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |