Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 2 | He would turn his back on him while he was talking , or look down smiling into the mouthpiece . |
| 3 | Solution : Give up knitting for the moment . |
| 4 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 5 | Trim off icing around the base , but let it still cover the drum slightly . |
| 6 | A few of us sit around talking into the night , women 's talk about operations and illnesses , birth , blood and death . |
| 7 | I 've read about it , you do exercises and train yourself , and then when the time comes you pop behind a bush and reappear with the baby slung on your hip , and go on toiling in the paddy-fields as if nothing had happened . " |
| 8 | ‘ It 's always tea-time here , and you go on moving round the table . |
| 9 | The alternative is for Greeks to watch their economic hopes fade , and listen to the world go on chuckling about the story of the Golden Unfleeced . |
| 10 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 11 | ‘ If you go on standing in the way any longer I 'll take you to court . ’ |
| 12 | Jack and Richard Hannon keep on banging in the winners while others are rushing about like headless chickens in the belief that the sky is falling down . |
| 13 | He pays the small amount and in fact I keep on meaning at the back of my brain to get hold of him and say has he been paying it . |
| 14 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 15 | Both user and non-user end up searching at the shelves . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , the reports and test results we issue are not all welcomed by manufacturers but there really is only a tiny percentage who end up carping about the magazine . ’ |
| 17 | You almost end up yearning with the RAF trainees to be back in the cockpit getting on with the business : flying . |
| 18 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 19 | If the boat capsizes because it 's overpowered simply scramble into the high side until you end up standing on the daggerboard . |
| 20 | if you end up going to the office and it 's the same layout as it it it was and the same people there , |
| 21 | go out exploring in the middle of the night ? |
| 22 | CARRY ON LOVING ON THE CAMPUS |
| 23 | I turn back and carry on looking in the window , but it 's hard to concentrate with this blue light flashing on and off in the glass . |
| 24 | What if a rule change , such as the introduction of a new settlement date , is formally communicated to members , but the traders on the floor do not " register " that the change has taken place and carry on trading on the basis of the old date ? |
| 25 | It 's pretty difficult to cross the road on account of all the traffic , so I just carry on walking on the pavement . |
| 26 | I carry on walking down the street , careful not to bump into people so I do n't fall over again . |
| 27 | After a bit I get bored and carry on walking up the street . |
| 28 | The breakthrough in this version is that you can combine a live chart within a spreadsheet display and carry on working on the spreadsheet without having to switch modes . |
| 29 | A PAIR of TV newsreaders have been suspended from duty after they burst out laughing during the evening news . |
| 30 | We burst out giggling at the sight of his bare bottom and we were still tittering when the door burst open and Mrs Taylor entered . |