Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 2 | However , as with the tutworker , from their gross income were deducted a number of items — the blacksmith 's cost of sharpening drills and picks ; a charge for raising or drawing the stuff up the shaft and tramming or waggoning it out to the dressing floors , and there , the cost of breaking up lumps into pieces about fist size . |
| 3 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 4 | ‘ For take-off and landing , each propeller works like a helicopter rotor , pulling the plane into the sky or letting it down on the helipad . |
| 5 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 6 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 7 | On the purl side , this creates a distortion in the stitches , either pulling them sideways or raising them up above the surface of the fabric . |
| 8 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 9 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 10 | By promoting economic aspects and bringing them out into the open for everyone to see , we are contributing towards better informed decisions on the part of prescribers and policy makers alike . ’ |
| 11 | It was always a project which was in parallel with Queen , because we always had a positive attitude to people doing stuff outside the band , getting new experiences and bringing them back into the band . |
| 12 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 13 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 14 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 15 | Extracting this heat involves pumping water down an injection borehole drilled from the surface , circulating it through pre-existing fractures , or joints , in the rock , which have been enlarged using high-pressure liquid , and bringing it back to the surface via a second borehole . |
| 16 | Keith needs play therapy to stop his rage by expressing his frustration and bringing it out into the open . |
| 17 | Then suddenly closing his eyes and clenching his fist and bringing it down on the counter , he said , ‘ Whatever you want to do , for God 's sake ! |
| 18 | The lines particularly can be more convenient than transfers because you can simply follow the original artwork like following a map , unwinding from the reel and sticking it down onto the film as you go along — though it can be fiddly on dense or complicated boards . |
| 19 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
| 20 | This is a block that sweeps in a downward arc across the lower part of the body , connecting with the incoming kick near the ankle and knocking it out to the side . |
| 21 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 22 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 23 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 24 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 25 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 26 | A whole exciting new scene was being born all about her and pushing her out of the way . |
| 27 | As he tried , several times , to restart his car before giving up and pushing it on to the verge to await rescue , traffic on the M8 from Glasgow quickly built up until there was a three-mile tailback . |
| 28 | Jampel Changchub , aged 30 , was described as a ‘ principal member ’ of the group and was accused of ‘ collecting information and passing it on to the enemy ’ . |
| 29 | " But I mind , I mind very much ! " he snapped , and walked with quick , short steps back to Fernando , taking his arm and leading him off into the crowd . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd better go and see the doctor , ’ he said heavily , taking her hand and leading her back down the corridor . |