Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Farm have not only made a record fit only for hurling out onto the M25 , they have exposed themselves as humourless , directionless THICKOS . |
| 2 | I was all for passing by on the other side of the road , but Buffy would n't let it drop . |
| 3 | Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating . |
| 4 | Earlier , he had been amazed by the amount of sludge being discharged by his pores , so before going back to the hot-rooms , he went to the wash handbasin and scrubbed his face with a will , and imagined all his blackheads disappearing down the drain along with the waste water . |
| 5 | Nationally , few MPs think that they will gain much from chuntering on about the drains … but I just wonder if they are not wrong . |
| 6 | In any large , structured company , some people are better motivators and better at getting on with the work force than others . |
| 7 | You can feel the grip more and you can control the bike a lot better by forcing down on the peg when the rear steps out . ’ |
| 8 | So by keeping out of the way and staying at sea he hoped to put himself right . |
| 9 | You may even want to produce the sort of book that is popular in America , the police procedural concerned with as many as half a dozen different crimes investigated by as many officers linked to each other only by working out of the same squad room . |
| 10 | Was the accused treating the goods as his own to dispose of regardless of the owner 's rights because the owner could get the machinery back only by giving in to the demands ? |
| 11 | I believe that it is only by going back to the basics and debating questions such as ‘ What do you want from the audit process ? |
| 12 | DEVASTATION The hellish scene faced by emergency services in Amsterdam last night when a huge El Al jumbo jet ripped through suburban apartment blocks after losing two of its four engines soon after taking off from the city |
| 13 | For those of you shying away from hopping around in the water and tired of pedalling away on a bike , a new stepping machine from Powersport International could be just the thing you 're after . |
| 14 | The man in the leather jacket stood on the platform for a moment longer before stepping up into the carriage next to Donna 's . |
| 15 | Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir . |
| 16 | Parents there voted overwhelmingly against opting out in the final ballot . |
| 17 | Last week Mr Cojuangco came close to getting back on the board of San Miguel , the country 's largest firm , which he once controlled . |
| 18 | If the current yield on the CTD bond exceeds the money market interest rate , the bond will be delivered on the last business day of the month , because the short earns more by holding on to the bond than by delivering it and investing the proceeds in the money market ; otherwise the bond will be delivered on the first business day of the month . |
| 19 | A few of the songs here appeared on Setzer 's ‘ The Knife Feels Like Justice ’ records , but this new LP is still probably worth checking out for the rumbling ‘ ( Do n't Sell My Daddy ) No More Whiskey ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I think so , because I checked the door later before going down to the village , and it was locked then , and the key was in my purse . ’ |
| 21 | Cells must therefore be leaving the marginal row as the wound closes ( most probably by slipping back into the epithelium to the rear of this row ) . |
| 22 | The problem was often of living up to the construction of masculinity . |
| 23 | And the thing about Fingers was always black now with holding on to the thingummy and then putting in drifts , and hammering , your fingers was get er drift was always on a in a a pan a wee pan with oil in it , drift was always full of oil and you stuck it in the hole . |
| 24 | Far from bumping along on the bottom , desperate for money , it is in good heart . |
| 25 | I had to go and fetch water from two blocks away at 5 a.m. before setting off to the market . |
| 26 | It had been going more and more slowly since diving down from the weathercock . |
| 27 | It 's large a low level route , sticking to valley bottoms and passes rather to going up on the fells . |
| 28 | In short , someone who is , as it were , drinking well now and well worth laying down for the future . ’ |
| 29 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 30 | Chris Pike is back in the side to play Chester tomorrow after going down with the snuffles and sneezes . |