Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [adv prt] of the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Casualties included a John Lewis security guard shepherding customers out of the store . |
| 5 | A court ruling on keeping abusers out of the family home has left SSD 's stunned . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not elbowing others out of the way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As he spoke , he confessed he had already started moving funds out of the country . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One [ booklet ] was connected with getting books out of the library , the other was connected with how you use these books for projects . |
| 15 | Well for slings , getting bags out of the hold see the whole job was so interesting , when you were doing these jobs that was interesting all the time . |
| 16 | Perhaps he is the Quorn 's latest recruit for getting badgers out of the ground . |
| 17 | His brown legs had marched along kicking stones out of the way . |
| 18 | This research , to enable identification of a released GEM — and its whereabouts — is essential because of the risks involved in letting GEMs out of the laboratory . |
| 19 | It 's a relic from the building 's yacht pavilion days , and was originally used for hauling drunks out of the water . |
| 20 | Blowing mates out of the sky is great fun — even if the graphics are n't exactly stunning — but the solo game lacks the competitive element and soon becomes tedious . |
| 21 | She began hauling suitcases out of the hall , onto the grass . |
| 22 | M2 is a Hepes-buffered medium ( pH 7.4 at 37-C ) for recovering and handling embryos out of the incubator ( based on the recipe in ref. 52 ) . |
| 23 | Mama was taking cookies out of the oven . |
| 24 | That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’ |
| 25 | Watchmen were dragging bodies out of the room downstairs . |
| 26 | But the Soviet leader had rather more success in prising discussions out of the West in that a foreign ministers ' conference was held about Germany in mid-1959 in Geneva . |
| 27 | A coot sat fidgeting on a bulky nest construction , flicking stems out of the way , pushing a twig into position . |
| 28 | the effect of ink being too tacky and lifting fibres out of the paper . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's making bundles out of the money business , is n't he ? ’ |
| 30 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |