Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are profound differences , obviously , between blasting birds out of the sky with a shotgun , sitting quietly on a riverbank waiting for the fish to bit , chasing foxes or stags over open country on horseback or sending dogs down a hole to dismember badgers . |
| 2 | This can be achieved by making contributions in the year of change and in the following two years , in the latter case by relating premiums back to the year of change . |
| 3 | Cut the studs so that they are a snug push-fit between head and sole plate , then secure them by skew-nailing ( driving nails in at an angle ) |
| 4 | But the problems of keeping microphones out of the picture , of different versions for foreign countries , and of editing the pictures independently of sound , mean such processes have become inevitable . |
| 5 | Planting it outside the backdoor was a sure way of keeping witches out of the house , and it was thought never to be struck by lightning ; cutting it brought bad luck , and traditionally it was the wood the Cross of Calvary . |
| 6 | Mat. , though not as young as Matron , was great on being all-girls-together and thrashing things out across a table . |
| 7 | This was spelling things out with a vengeance . |
| 8 | Casualties included a John Lewis security guard shepherding customers out of the store . |
| 9 | And since an expensive loaf caused havoc in St Jude 's and trouble in everybody 's weaving sheds , with demands for higher wages keeping profits down at a time when trade was far from good — when it would probably never rise again to the level of those early , heady days when the machines first came in — then Ben Braithwaite and his dinner guests had reason for their anxiety . |
| 10 | The rugged David McIvor — at No8 on the Scottish scrum feed but on the flank on France 's — was the one man who showed any real propensity for knocking men back in the tackle . |
| 11 | A court ruling on keeping abusers out of the family home has left SSD 's stunned . |
| 12 | ‘ Crew members are tearing dolphins out of the net and dumping them on the deck with little or no attention to whether they are alive or dead . |
| 13 | But the SPD could now find little alternative to Kohl 's policy of welcoming the SED 's demise , allowing refugees in from the East and exploring possible routes to German reunification . |
| 14 | I was in the fruit and vegetable section waiting to weigh some potatoes on the scales when I saw a bairn of about three years old , a bonnie wee lad with fair hair and big dark blue eyes , picking apples out of the bin and shoving them into his mother 's shopping bag . |
| 15 | Airport director Carlos Saruca Salgado said the jet broke in two , spilling passengers on to the ground and a fire broke out in the rear of the fuselage . |
| 16 | Not elbowing others out of the way . |
| 17 | Still on the gardening scene , I 've used these for years in place of plant pots for bringing seeds on in the greenhouse . |
| 18 | McLaren well receive continued supplies of Honda engines for testing purposes through to the end of the year . |
| 19 | The grounds of Midway Manor were transformed for the evening , with a candlelit drive leading guests up to the manor house where hot air balloons offered rides above the parkland . |
| 20 | God as an old man with a beard pulling strings up in the sky is doomed forever to be invisible and impossible . |
| 21 | Arms threw dirt aside , stiffly pulling torsos out of the earth , shoulders shovelling the dirt aside to allow heads to rise and turn uncertainly , glancing about blankly through bulging eyes which looked at everything and saw nothing . |
| 22 | This has led officials from the Department of Antiquities to offer rewards to anyone who helps them recover a lost item , as happened in Kirkuk where some people have already received between two and three thousand Dinars ( less than £1 ) for turning items over to the Department . |
| 23 | Thus anything the slightest bit controversial is left out as are , with a few exceptions , references to what private individuals and companies are doing in sending objects out of the Earth 's atmosphere in the interests either of research or for financial reward . |
| 24 | In early September there had been allegations by Catholic bishops in the south that government soldiers in Juba were burning homes , killing suspected SPLA sympathizers , mining roads out of the town and using civilians as human shields . |
| 25 | As he spoke , he confessed he had already started moving funds out of the country . |
| 26 | Once parts and ideas come to the assembly line , the overseas factories are virtually as good or as bad as their Japanese counterparts at sending cars out of the factory doors . |
| 27 | One [ booklet ] was connected with getting books out of the library , the other was connected with how you use these books for projects . |
| 28 | Once a recommendation for deportation had been made it was rare for the Movement to try to reverse the order , though the irony of sending youngsters back to the source of their unhappiest memories was not lost on refugee workers . |
| 29 | GETTING PRINCIPLES ON TO THE STATUTE BOOK |
| 30 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on Oct. 29 approved a three-year arrangement authorizing loans up to the equivalent of SDR49,420,000 ( about US$70,000,000 ) under the structural adjustment facility ( SAF ) , in support of Ethiopia 's medium-term economic reform programme . |