Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] something [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was wrestling with something on the other side of that landing door , pushing open the door with one foot and shouting : ‘ Come on , then ! |
| 2 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 3 | Neo-evolutionism rejects this unilinear dogma , and argues that there are many possible paths from the traditional to the modern , though there is a strong supposition that the capitalist road via pluralist democracy resulting in something like the contemporary United States and Western Europe , is the best and most efficient of the alternatives . |
| 4 | Ben was crouched at the water 's edge , intensely still , staring at something in the tall , thick rushes to his right . |
| 5 | Somehow Koons has turned what might have been titillating into something with the erotic appeal of a smutty , B-grade slasher film — the images draw you in only by their sheer gross-out power . |