Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 2 | Later , as a result of other movements in the rocks , fissures opened up in the slowly solidifying granite . |
| 3 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 4 | The fact that they tapped in to the rapidly expanding European market undoubtedly helped the giant US firms to offset some of the effects of slow domestic growth . |
| 5 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |