Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows .
2 It was like pulling them off a duplicating machine , and after a while , when we realised we had little or no chance of catching anything bigger , it became so boring we never went again .
3 Another major advantage over the thinner types of cladding is that they provide additional insulation to exterior walls ( which can be augmented by fixing them over an extra layer of insulation ) .
4 It is rather important to prolong important climaxes , rather than let them slip away quickly , by holding them over an adequate period , through word repetition , musical extensions , etc .
5 They spread the risks of lending by pooling funds and allocating them over a wide range of depositors ( e.g. unit trusts ) .
6 Management should effect redundancies at one point in time rather than spreading them over a long period .
7 It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period .
8 I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme .
9 He could have disposed of them in a more conclusive way on a bonfire or by throwing them down an old mineshaft . ’
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