Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you 'll have heard , bass makers Warwick are branching out into the area of specialised bass amplification . |
| 2 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 3 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 4 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 5 | I hang my coat up and start to shout and tell those who are hanging around in the corridor to get outside until the bell goes . |
| 6 | Swingbeat New Editioners Bell Biv Devoe are hanging out in the lounge telling stories of how the helicopter in their latest video toppled off a windy roof . |
| 7 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 8 | They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt . |
| 9 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 10 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 11 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 12 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 13 | If you are walking down into the centre along Avenida do Infante , after the Savoy Hotel you pass the modern Casino Park Hotel and , behind it , the new Casino . |
| 14 | A SHOP 'S vintage hangover cure is proving so popular that regular users are walking in off the streets to take it at £1 a shot . |
| 15 | At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor . |
| 16 | NURSES from South Tees are jetting off to the U.S. this month to find out about baby care , American style . |
| 17 | TEENAGE girls are ending up with the bones of old women because of eating disorders which are producing ‘ horrifying results ’ , a doctor said yesterday . |
| 18 | As fish are sinking back through the surface , other fish will be appearing through it , so that there is constant activity . |
| 19 | The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion . |
| 20 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 21 | Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ? |
| 22 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 23 | Dutch authorities are looking in to the incident . |
| 24 | On the plains , small rodents that have spent the daylight hours in the safety of their burrows , are venturing out under the cover of night to look for food . |
| 25 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 26 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 27 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 28 | Well I mean , if you bought them and then you 're building up during the year , but you know , we can always have them for |
| 29 | They 're sticking out like the prongs of a garden fork . |
| 30 | Take the heat out by having cool showers ( use a water-resistant suncream if you 're cooling down in the pool ) and use an aftersun lotion to ease the tingling and to stop your skin drying out . |