Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 2 | If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame . |
| 3 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 4 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 5 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 6 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 7 | No need to explain one 's reasons for suddenly looking out of the window . |
| 8 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 9 | So going back to the parallel , have you had any thoughts about it ? |
| 10 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 11 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 12 | It 's a wonderful surprise to turn the corner , just yards away from the mayhem of the chairlift , and find yourself in wide , sweeping moorland , gently inclining up to the ridge . |
| 13 | She was soon forgetful of the time , however , her thoughts swiftly going back to the man who had put his finger on her doorbell at that hour in the morning , and kept it there . |
| 14 | On Aug. 28 , the Interior Minister , Daouda Rabiou , made a statement on national television apparently going along with the men 's action , and the government subsequently seemed powerless to do otherwise . |
| 15 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 16 | In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials . |
| 17 | The eyes of the riled flare , literally popping out of the sockets . |
| 18 | ‘ But … but I love you ! ’ she cried , suddenly coming out of the trance in which she had been imprisoned , and desperately anxious that she should in some way communicate her feelings for him . |
| 19 | As the lava cools down further , to a dull red , more and more chilled fragments remain on the surface , and these small particles soon agglomerate together , forming progressively larger plates or rafts which cover the surface of the flow , the hot lava itself only glowing through in the cracks between rafts . |
| 20 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 21 | While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away . |
| 22 | ‘ And I 'm only coming back to the flat to get my bag , if that 's the way you feel . |
| 23 | These three members of the Procellariidae family have one thing in common : they are all ‘ night birds ’ , only coming in to the screes and grassy slopes of the cliffs under cover of darkness to change places with their mate on the single egg , deep within a burrow , or later to feed the young . |
| 24 | The first Unix Reseller Show & Conference , set for May 4–6 , 1993 in Dallas , is apparently coming out of the blocks stronger than anticipated . |
| 25 | Then you see an express train apparently coming out through the embankment while a gigantic head capped with flowers revolves high above and you realise it will be an amazing day . |
| 26 | there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one . |
| 27 | Nearly two decades later his installation Art Show at the Centre Pompidou foregrounded figures with tape decks for hearts , which gave out phoney art jargon , with hot air literally coming out of the figures ’ vents ( Rickey 1983 ) . |
| 28 | The headmaster himself had accused her of only joining up for the uniform . |
| 29 | She was only joining in for the sake of the others because Murder in the Dark is more fun with five than with four . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters . |