Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 2 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |
| 3 | Now , drawing vigorously with the back end of the brush I picked out the light sides of the foreground waves . |
| 4 | ‘ Mrs Wormwood is n't going to thank you for this , ’ the man said as he led her into the sitting-room where a large platinum-blonde woman was gazing rapturously at the TV screen . |
| 5 | Berger pulled himself up , hanging on to the marble top and the gypsies started to laugh . |
| 6 | Hanging on to the cliff face by his nails , gaining small purchase on it . |
| 7 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 8 | She pulled herself up to the level of the bonnet by hanging on to the wing mirror then snatched at a scrap of folded paper . |
| 9 | My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud . |
| 10 | He was leaning against the parapet rail , gazing down at the brick terrace several floors below . |
| 11 | Tucking in at the Cork District Social function held in Clancy 's Bar on Wednesday , 7th April 1993 . |
| 12 | X-Windows technology suppliers are bandying together as the X Industry Association to promote X at the behest of the X Business Group . |
| 13 | Scott brought his hand crashing down on the desk top , his face pale with rage , the vein at his temple throbbing . |
| 14 | He said that his men were held back by the heat of the fire , which stripped plaster from the walls , burnt floorboards and brought ceilings crashing down onto the ground floor of the semidetached house . |
| 15 | Scraps of paper , issuing from the city , came twirling in through the cab window . |
| 16 | The next two hours were hectic , the Rose Bowl 's new owner struggling alone with the lunchtime rush while her assistant made up the orders that should have been done earlier . |
| 17 | They insisted on the rehabilitation of their relatives and friends , joining the growing numbers gathering daily around the Xidan wall . |
| 18 | Cardiff have always attracted players , but what has fuelled the apprehension of the other Merit Table clubs is that they , along with Newport , are now competing eagerly in the transfer market . |
| 19 | She could feel them now — dangers everywhere — gathering all around the churchyard wall , biding their time until a door should open , just a crack , and let them in . |
| 20 | These people are afghans … a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city , Kabul . |
| 21 | There were people everywhere , rushing to the bars , crowding on to the dance floor , filling all the chairs and tables . |
| 22 | If you have time , it is worth climbing on to the observation terrace on the site of the tiny Chapel of Holy Mary of Einsiedel which was part of the Theatine Monastery below . |
| 23 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 24 | Signing on to the DSD scheme , for instance , puts one more barrier in the way of a foreign firm wanting to sell in Germany . |
| 25 | So far , that legal impasse has kept the proposed sites in Japan and France from officially signing on to the exhibition tour . |
| 26 | She 'd got the job after being made redundant and signing on at the job centre . |
| 27 | Follow main street to sea , keeping right behind The Anchor Inn on Common Lane . |
| 28 | Leaping on to the cabin top , he dropped the sails . |
| 29 | Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot . |
| 30 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |