Example sentences of "[v-ing] its [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 2 | Everyone on the trams and buses was carrying bales and bundles , so that the freak morning rush-hour looked like an immense double-decker funeral cortege , winding its way out of the centre of Glasgow in every direction . |
| 3 | He 'd been a uniformed inspector with the Soho Unit for nearly three years , and was probably due for a move ; no sign of it yet , but there was most likely a memo waiting deep in the machinery , easing its way out at the speed of a splinter . |
| 4 | Pushing its head out of the way , I thrust the flambeau into its stall , to see if there might be kerosene or paraffin stored there , or at least a good stack of hay . |
| 5 | SCOTLAND 's engineering sector is still resolutely clawing its way out of the recessionary pit , according to the latest quarterly review issued yesterday by Scottish Engineering , the employers ' organisation . |
| 6 | The mass of new , hot rock forcing its way up through the crater floor had both helped to displace the water from the crater , and heated it up to nearly boiling point , so it was a scalding torrent that flashed down the valley , travelling at a speed of something like ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 7 | A presence forcing its way through from the Other Side . |
| 8 | By half past seven the sun was just surfacing above the silhouette of the mist-shrouded Siebengebirge , looking like a vast behemoth shouldering its way up into the light . |
| 9 | He had taken the precaution of oiling its mechanism along with the door hinges earlier that day , so as to avoid any noise that would alert the occupant of the room . |
| 10 | The cockerel stood braced , shrilling its cry out into the mist , answering other calls from other compounds up and down across the hillside . |
| 11 | Now , it was reaching out , spiralling its essence down towards the wormhole in the fabric of the Dark , ready to feed itself into the earthly plane , to become one with the Vessel . |
| 12 | AIS sees Skymaster as an important way of getting its information over to the public in an efficient , quickly updated fashion that is easily accessed . |
| 13 | The intrepid band braved a precipitous mountain track snaking its way up to the highest peak on the Arabian Peninsula [ Jeebl Nabi el Shwayb — 3,666 metres , or about 12,000 feet ) . |
| 14 | DANCE is making its way back to the Liverpool arts scene following what seemed a fallow period . |
| 15 | Anxious to film the final " fire " scene , we desperately tried to overtake the tail of the throng making its way back along the narrow causeway , but our legs were betraying us . |
| 16 | His lips were fiercely hot , melting every bone in Isabel 's body , despite the dawning knowledge fighting its way up through the mists of sleep still clinging to her brain . |
| 17 | The lakes huddled in the valleys — Lakes Grey , Nordensköld and Pehoé — were speckled with small icebergs , and at the end of Lake Grey we spied the white winding-sheet of a glacier edging its way down from the ice-cap . |
| 18 | The cirque was made , it seems , even before the period of glaciation , by water finding its way out from the mass if of the Monte Perdido behind and undermining the cliffs , though it was the glacier , shreds only of which are left , that eventually cleared this gigantic bowl of its debris . |
| 19 | The rat could only go one way , burrowing its way out through the living flesh . ’ |
| 20 | The foal cringes , lowering its shoulders , extending its neck , and raising its muzzle up to the other horse . |
| 21 | A bad weather front feeling its way over from the west like a nasty white octopus in the blue summer sky . |