Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 2 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 3 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 4 | He must have taken the bucket outside but when he returned Robyn was still struggling furiously with the unfamiliar catch . |
| 5 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |
| 6 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 7 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 8 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 9 | She paced up and down ; she went backwards and forwards to the windows , stepping on to the little balcony where they sat together in the afternoon sun , peering down the street . |
| 10 | There follows the usual discussion on oppressed-minority self-detecting radar — Jewish , lesbian or otherwise — and some sniffing delicately around the problematical area of Israel , policies of and attitudes toward : Then Clint refers back to the books . |
| 11 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 12 | Then hoofbeats pounded to Sharpe 's left and he saw another French officer galloping furiously down the high road . |
| 13 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 14 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 15 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 16 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 17 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 18 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 19 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 20 | It should have calmed her , gazing down at the burbling river , should have helped her to think about the problem uppermost in her mind ; but it was impossible to concentrate , knowing that he was close by . |
| 21 | He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long . |
| 22 | She did not want to look at him , and crossed to stand before the mantel over the fireplace , gazing down into the empty grate . |
| 23 | Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate . |
| 24 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 25 | The name of the house means , literally , water running over stones , and a moment 's quietude brings to life the sound of many waterfalls tumbling all around the 800-acre property . |
| 26 | This was The Who touching down after the conceptual splurge of ‘ Tommy ’ , knocking out faves like ‘ Magic Bus ’ and re-reading touchstone '50s songs in a deranged but affectionate way . |
| 27 | Having anticipated that Nana would be unable to supply gin and Safex , even in an emergency , Mada Joyce had sent her oldest boy loping down to the Chinese store in the lowest village for these essentials . |
| 28 | It was the strain — deep down she knew — the strain of finding herself in this diabolical situation , the strain of being alone here , like this , with his contempt and superiority , struggling constantly against the physical awareness of him , the electricity that his presence produced . |
| 29 | I would argue , however , that love-making ought not to be treated as drawing only on the irrational side of a person 's nature . |
| 30 | These again suit our mood , but at the last we turn for a final lingering view of the Parthenon , reflecting perhaps on the ultimate destiny of the material works of man . |