Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly brought about by the theoretical writings of Constantin Stanislavsky who confounds the issue for us by bringing emotional expression back onto the stage . |
| 2 | They reckon that dubbing French dialogue on to the kids ' favourite soaps will keep them switched on in class . |
| 3 | Comments so far : I do n't really like membrane switches ; they have a vague , indistinct action , even though they help in keeping gig-type crud out of the workings . |
| 4 | Kennedy 's insistence on keeping Soviet influence out of the Western Hemisphere and miscalculations by both superpowers brought the world to the brink of nuclear conflict in 1962 . |
| 5 | The present standard of Woolmer Road , the county say , is inadequate to accommodate safely the traffic volumes likely to result from directing two-way traffic on to the route . |
| 6 | Pin , and tack the tape over the marked lines , turning cut edge under at the top and bottom . |
| 7 | When the tap is turned on , cold water ( usually from the mains ) is allowed into the bottom of the heater , thus forcing hot water out of the top and out of the nozzle outlet or the hot tap . |
| 8 | He was pouring boiling water on to the tea . |
| 9 | They cheered when Peter 's wife threw his incessantly chirruping portable phone out of the window . |
| 10 | The taxi pulled into her street , the leafy shade of the trees sending dappled moonlight on to the long , sleek black bonnet of a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce limousine . |
| 11 | Triflex uses a 64-bit processor bus and 128-bit memory bus together with the 32-bit EISA input-output bus and reckons that this will be key to getting full performance out of the new processor . |
| 12 | yeah right well have you succeeded in getting other stuff out of the way ? |
| 13 | He was convincing , too , in getting maximum mileage out of the ingenious variations on what seems at first a not very promising theme . |
| 14 | But the problem of rooting racial discrimination out of the health service and medicine is a deeper one that needs a broad strategic approach . |
| 15 | On the small monitor screen his great external weapon was white-hot , seething , dripping molten metal on to the carapace below . |
| 16 | Chasing disappearing water out of the bath , a two-year-old got his hand trapped in the metal ring of the plug hole , each pudgy finger neatly jammed through a separate hole . |
| 17 | May I beg him to stop making political capital out of the health of the citizens of the capital and concentrate on the real issues ? |
| 18 | John , what 's the chance of finding intelligent life out in the universe ? |
| 19 | Yet for lack of personnel , funds , and initiative , Bolshevik Party members were not making sufficient capital out of the situation . |
| 20 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 21 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |
| 22 | Yek bathing involved immersion up to the neck in water which was maintained at a temperature hot enough to strip the flesh from a man 's bones if he did not acclimatise himself to it gradually , and baths were communal . |