Example sentences of "[v-ing] clear [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROHITA looked special after blasting clear in the final furlong for a three-lengths win in the Payne and Gunter Fillies Stakes at Goodwood and it may take a good one to stop her in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot . |
| 2 | Horowitz picked up his cases , retrieved his scarf from the camera , keeping clear of the lens , took the elevator downstairs . |
| 3 | For them there was nothing tame about not living in the fast lane ; nothing sanctimonious about unconsciously keeping clear of the edge of the cliff . |
| 4 | Midnight shrugged , not wanting to talk about the old slave days in Spanish Town or Montserrat , walking her along , keeping clear of the last idling stragglers . |
| 5 | A much-trodden path also threads a way up-river through the trees , keeping clear of the precipitous edge , to a bridge spanning the gorge , this too revealing a frightening prospect far beneath . |
| 6 | Keeping clear of the wharves where machinery roared and clanked as cargoes were being discharged from or loaded on to rust-streaked ships with flaking paint , Nathan tied Seawitch to the rickety wooden pontoon reserved for yachts in transit . |
| 7 | Half-way through the twentieth century it was becoming clear to the more perceptive analysts that , whatever the political limitations might or might not be to that form of growth , there were ecological limitations looming on the horizon . |
| 8 | I have seen carp humping the surface over the top of this ledge and even leaping clear of the water on occasions , and at one point along the bottom of the shelf a dense mudcloud was invariably evident . |
| 9 | The American was streaking clear in the 100 metres hurdles when she hit the last barrier and crashed to the ground . |
| 10 | The Manchester City marksman is being tipped to win his first cap after surging clear of the pack as the country 's top scorer . |
| 11 | Protected by the castle , a settlement grew up , apparently outside the bailey walls on the lower ground , with the modern market area seemingly remaining clear until the 16th century . |
| 12 | The lifeboat was struck by a large sea as she was leaving the harbour and Coxswain Wight had difficulty in manoeuvring clear of the narrow channel , before pausing to take stock of the conditions at sea and pressing on to clear off-lying rocks . |
| 13 | Broadside to the wind , Golden Girl was already drifting clear of the heavier motor yacht . |
| 14 | Now he was riding clear in the front , and so , on each wing , were Cormac and Ferteth , their shields held before them . |
| 15 | When the first stones hurtled towards the boar , it lunged forward , its head rising clear above the water so that we could see the downward curve of its tusks , the bead-like eyes wild with terror . |
| 16 | Alessio set up number two for the striker after 27 minutes , breaking clear on the left to deliver a cross that was headed home from 10 yards . |
| 17 | Making its money as a system design consultancy , it 's staying clear of the grave Multiflow dug for itself building machines , it says . |
| 18 | Having made the two , comes through to there , you just having clear of the metal work , you put , this is a three foot , just not in it at the moment . |
| 19 | As I waited , Pike started to fall , jumping clear of the stilts that had been holding him up . |
| 20 | ‘ The King and a horse falling clear against the night sky , ’ Thomas replied . |
| 21 | Ahead of us we could see our ridge , standing clear of the cloud , brushed purple in the strange early light . |
| 22 | Aim to curl up with your head and shoulders lifting clear of the mat . |
| 23 | His speeches were , of course , dominated by the great foreign political issues of the year , but there can be no doubt that Hitler was deliberately steering clear of the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and that there was a continued conscious attempt to dissociate his public image from the seamier side of anti-Semitism visible in the renewed growing violence of Party activists . |
| 24 | Most shoppers were splashing out on practical items and steering clear of the luxury goods , he said . |
| 25 | He then brought up the £8000 to £8,000 by steering clear of the OTC , and the vicar was ecstatic that at last he seemed to be making some money . |
| 26 | The residue will liquefy rapidly draining clear of the surface leaving a bright clean finish . |
| 27 | Produce pieces of writing in which there is a rudimentary attempt to present simple subject matter in a structured way , eg by means of a title and paragraphs or verses ; in which sentence punctuation ( capital letters , full stops , question marks and exclamation marks ) is generally accurately used ; and in which there is some evidence of an ability to set out and punctuate any direct speech in a way that makes meaning clear to the reader . |
| 28 | These orthographic conventions should be taught in the context of the children 's own writing and should always be related to their function of making the writer 's meaning clear to the reader . |