Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata . |
| 2 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 3 | They got down awkwardly , hanging on to the edge of the sill and dropping on to the road . |
| 4 | In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar . |
| 5 | Callaghan stood , hanging on to the rags of his self-respect . |
| 6 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 7 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 8 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 9 | She smiled at the slatterns too — why not ? — most of them living a little lower down the street , who , for one reason or another , had lost all taste for building edifices of any description , hanging on by the skin of such teeth as they had left , to a precarious existence of borrowing today to pay what one owed from yesterday and hoping that tomorrow would somehow take care of itself . |
| 10 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 11 | ‘ BEST decision I 've ever made in my life , ’ said Des Walker , gazing down from the terrace of his Genoese apartment at sunlit rocks and ocean . |
| 12 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 13 | They were quite intimidating to a poor Waaf struggling along in the teeth of a gale , on a bike in a skirt . |
| 14 | To its horror it will find itself slipping and sliding , tumbling down at the mercy of its foes . |
| 15 | In course of time McKenzie did just that and the four divers slipped over the side , touching down on the deck of the Delos just over an hour after leaving the Ariadne . |
| 16 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 17 | As Bamber explains , such high expectations of the work , and an unrealistic idealism surrounding ‘ caring ’ and the medical model of illness , ‘ come crashing down with the reality of work experience ’ . |
| 18 | In the patchy moonlight filtering down through the latticework of branches above , he could see no lurking figures . |
| 19 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 20 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 21 | She saw him flex his ankle and wince , and she stood up and went over to him , kneeling down on the end of one of the sleeping-bags . |
| 22 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 23 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 24 | She liked the moss-covered cobbles of the yard , and appreciated the random design of the shaggy tufts of grass hanging down from the eaves of the ancient stable blocks ahead . |
| 25 | Motherwell ‘ keeper Thomson was at full stretch to smother the youngster 's shot which looked like sneaking in at the foot of the post . |
| 26 | Eventually they acquired the status of gods and goddesses whose periodic tantrums brought epidemics , famines and other disasters raining down on the heads of long-suffering humanity . |
| 27 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 28 | As Eadmer saw it , the turning point came in 1076 , when Lanfranc was pressing on with the building of the new church , and had recently appointed Henry , his Italian fellow-countryman from Bec , as prior . |
| 29 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 30 | In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting . |