Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lenin clearly accepted the need for administration and administrators , but by a democratically controlled set of routine offices rotating widely among the population rather than by a ‘ special stratum of the population ’ . |
| 2 | He stopped , mouth agape , gazing down across the Sound where Luch up on the roof was pointing . |
| 3 | Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour , these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below . |
| 4 | ( Do this by pencilling over the side of the paper , turning it over on to the icing and then pressing gently over the lines again . ) |
| 5 | Walking down towards the pueblo again , seeing the roomy spread of small farms , the elegant eucalyptus trees which shade them , a handful of birds break from the tall lupins . |
| 6 | The character of the whole place is best assessed by walking down from the castle rather than climbing east to west . |
| 7 | The narrative commences with Kathie ( Sylvia Syms ) and Peter ( Johnny Sekka ) walking together to the school where they both teach . |
| 8 | He was last seen climbing alone below the summit early this morning . |
| 9 | Both focal and central places were important in the past and the concept is useful in explaining much in the landscape today . |
| 10 | If your bitch is not neutered , you should be aware of the possibility of this behavioural change occurring soon after the time when she would normally have given birth , just over two months after her last heat . |
| 11 | Furthermore the referee , Colin Hawke , from New Zealand , ruined the game as a spectacle by blasting away in the whistle almost non-stop , awarding a penalty or a free-kick every two minutes or so , mostly against Scotland . |
| 12 | Turned it round on the way back driving merrily towards the arch very happily past the pub on the left and the playing fields where they were about to play rugby I suspect . |
| 13 | She hesitated , her eyes showing a momentary unease , then she did as she was told , walking over to the corner where he had indicated . |
| 14 | In nature the cycle is practically closed , with vegetable and animal wastes returning directly to the soil where they have lived . |
| 15 | Susan 's eyes grew wide as Maggie told her about her ride on the telegraph pole , ending up at The Haven where she 'd been rescued by Bryce . |
| 16 | With a sharp pang of defeat , he noticed Benny dive headlong through the weakened window , ending up in the water below with a huge splash . |
| 17 | That had been their agreement , and , if she was walking out on the deal earlier than expected , it was as much his fault as hers . |
| 18 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 19 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 20 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 21 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 22 | Walking back alongside the canal again was familiar and reassuring . |
| 23 | If the court is satisfied ( by affidavit or other evidence ) that prompt personal service can not be effected because the debtor is keeping out of the way so as to avoid service , it may order substituted service in such manner as it thinks fit . |
| 24 | This makes landing accurately on the spot just a matter of timing the opening of the airbrakes and co-ordinating the elevator movement . |
| 25 | The front half of a fox , paws and all , its rear end replaced by a shield-shaped slab of polished wood , appeared to be leaping out of the wall just below the picture rail , in the manner of a circus dog emerging from a paper hoop . |
| 26 | An example of presentation infidelity , uncovered in our survey , was where companies showed a series of columns sloping back towards the right away from the common baseline of the X axis . |
| 27 | Spencer by now was n't very pleased , Elstree were n't very thrilled about him landing back on the runway either , and with the hydraulic fluid gone , there were no flaps either . |
| 28 | There seemed to be so many of them , more and more crowding silently through the ruins wherever she looked . |
| 29 | When the alarm was given , the animals would be driven into the ground floor of the Pele Tower , the local families would ascend a ladder to the first floor , the women and children climbing again to the bower above and the men to the roof , where they would repulse the invaders . |
| 30 | A number of the men absconded during the week , returning again in the evening when they said that they had been Christmas boxing . |