Example sentences of "[v-ing] them [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 2 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 4 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 5 | It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 7 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |
| 8 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 9 | But it can learn to comprehend a series of events by bringing them together into a cohesive , learned pattern to form a language . |
| 10 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents . |
| 13 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 14 | That means keeping them out of the unpredictable British May weather . |
| 15 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Secure the wire ends by twisting them together for a short distance to prevent the turns trying to unwind themselves . |
| 18 | Slowly curl the dumb-bells upwards to shoulder height , twisting them gradually during the full movement until the palms are facing you . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 21 | The central characters are emphasised by pushing them into the foreground with bold biting or by establishing them appropriately within an off-beat compositional design . |
| 22 | People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected . |
| 23 | Because of the caves ' varying depths , 25 minutes decompression was required before removing the two front mounted cylinders , and pushing them ahead through the 16 inch high Cobble Inlet passage . |
| 24 | And grabbing three of the smallest around their necks , he started pushing them out of the back door , into the fresh air , and towards the outer door of the boarding section . |
| 25 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 26 | All these different productions are sometimes summarised by writing them thus on a single line : |
| 27 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 28 | Also , with Bush committed to opposing both bills , Republicans in Congress were anxious to enable him to avoid the political embarrassment of vetoing them just before the presidential election . |
| 29 | She ran a shaking hand over the wispy tendrils , smoothing them back into the neat knot gathered at the nape of her neck , but without the aid of a comb or mirror it was impossible to return her hair to its usual immaculate style . |
| 30 | The air smelt dank and trapped despite the wind that poured past them , forcing them deeper into the solid darkness ahead . |