Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I hope she goes on crying until the time comes for them to wrap a shroud round her . "
2 That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature .
3 He ca n't he wakes up sobbing in the middle of the night . ’
4 But everyone ends up hiding under the sheets , not too terrified , and a philosophical bear lollops back along the beach to his cave .
5 It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry .
6 On each occasion the fish ends up lying on the tank floor breathing heavily until it dies .
7 The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore .
8 White cell 007 nods : ‘ You ca n't help hearing it , the way he keeps on mooching about the house , hating everything and everyone .
9 An in-depth study of parental opinions about values in schooling found parents have strong opinions , but what was striking was the lack of willingness to become more involved in how the school goes about dealing with the issue .
10 He goes round banging on the barrels . )
11 She carries on mowing with the vacuum cleaner .
12 ‘ Tell her , if she comes back bothering about the hay , she can turn it herself .
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