Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 2 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 3 | Thus began the pattern of alternating concession and repression which marked the Indian path to independence , the British constantly frustrated by their inability to rise permanently above the use of force , the nationalists , with the notable exception of Gandhi , seeing only the adroit employment of the carrot and the stick . |
| 4 | Dalgliesh raised it with careful fingers touching only the extreme edge of the cloth and saw underneath a smudge of blood on the carpet about two centimetres long and thicker at the right end than at the left . |
| 5 | CAERPHILLY AND LEEK BAKE 900g / 2 lb leeks ( cleaned weight ) 45g / 1½ oz butter 45g / 1½ oz flour 1 pint creamy milk 1 tsp mild mustard 110g / 4oz crumbled Caerphilly cheese Salt and pepper Topping 85g / 3 oz crumbled Caerphilly cheese 85g / 3 oz brown bread crumbs ½ tsp celery seasoning 1 tbsp chopped parsley To finish 2 tbsp melted butter USING only the white part of the leeks , cut into 1 in pieces . |
| 6 | But you 're going to get a wider latitude and difference of i of of strength of economy by bringing in the eastern bloc in the short term . |
| 7 | LAURA STONE , of the Liverpool Notre Dame Association , who sent us this report , commented : ‘ Let us remember all lay and religious people who are away from their own countries and families , working for those less fortunate than ourselves and bringing in the Good News from afar . ’ |
| 8 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 9 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
| 11 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 12 | He appeared in July ‘ 85 , ambling down the 18th fairway at Royal St George 's . |
| 13 | Your trousers , which can carry braiding down the outside seam as decoration , should be supported , however , and by braces . |
| 14 | ( Robyn goes into her long narrow living-room , formed by knocking down the dividing wall between the front and back parlours of the little house , which also serves as her study . |
| 15 | Nina resumed cracking nuts , adopting exactly the same grip on the hammer her mother had demonstrated , and successfully opened quite a few . |
| 16 | As the authorities which I have cited demonstrate , the visitor is applying not the general law of the land but a peculiar , domestic law of which he is the sole arbiter and of which the courts have no cognisance . |
| 17 | As per our telephone conversations of last Friday and today , I am returning herewith the faulty copy of Xtree Gold which we received from you last week . |
| 18 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 19 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 20 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 21 | However he ruled out opening up the political system to a number of parties , insisting that national unity must be achieved first . |
| 22 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 23 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 24 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 25 | He was in favour of comprehensive schools , disliking selection once and for all for one sort of education or another at ‘ this frankly absurdly early age of 11 + ’ , and disliking also the social divisiveness of middle-class and working-class children going to different schools . |
| 26 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 27 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 28 | This exercise is brilliant for toning up the loose skin under the chin . |
| 29 | The alcohol inside was now only faintly blurring out the throbbing pain in his jaw . |
| 30 | He had spent his time in a lodging house on the Strand , eking out the small amount of money Edward Morris had been able to lend him . |