Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 4 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 5 | People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected . |
| 6 | And writing it out in a half hour or hour lesson was almost impossible because it took too many sheets of paper . |
| 7 | picking us out in the battered kiosk . |
| 8 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 9 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 10 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 11 | These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass . |
| 12 | A word of caution at this point : do not list specific skills that you do not have unless you feel that the lack of these skills is holding you back in a particular area . |
| 13 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 14 | Most caddies have their own way of getting one back in the long run . |
| 15 | But it must be equally obvious that during spells of prolonged rain the rabbits are much more likely to stay underground in the warmth and security of their burrow systems rather than braving it out in the open and being constantly soaked . |
| 16 | Forced into a run chase , Park lost wickets quickly , Brian Coutts finishing them off in the 39th over with three for 19 . |
| 17 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 18 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 19 | Grumbling under his breath at the lateness of the hour , and the fact that he was missing an important baseball game on TV , the super — who appeared to be of Polish extraction — nevertheless insisted on taking them up in an antiquated , dangerously shaky lift . |
| 20 | We 're dropping it down in a different place , but the reaction will be the same ’ . |
| 21 | When they paused near one of these villages to rest the horses the Collector remained in the carriage and watched the men drawing water from the well , drawing it up in a huge leather bag with the help of their bullocks , and he knew that the same two men and two bullocks would do this every day until the end of their lives . |
| 22 | about bringing it up in the next erm meeting . |
| 23 | There is no way of standing them off in the old fashion . |
| 24 | But the day had insisted on playing itself out in the idyllic pastoral mode . |
| 25 | Finding herself back in the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken lost no time in looking down the microscope again . |
| 26 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 27 | This collaborative development project , involving most of the original researchers , has been producing training and other materials , trying them out in a few selected authorities , and also extending its dissemination networks in anticipation of the finished products . |
| 28 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 29 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 30 | From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s . |