Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secure the long bullrush leaves around the pond , sticking on with a little fondant . |
| 2 | Striker John Borthwick wasted his side 's best opportunity of the half , latching on to a loose ball on the edge of the Stoke penalty area and making space for himself , only to fire lamely at keeper Ronnie Sinclair . |
| 3 | But while County are tipped to go up this time , Francis could be stepping on to a bigger stage before next spring . |
| 4 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 5 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 6 | For high earners , the £75,000 cap is probably the strongest argument for hanging on to an existing Section 226 policy , since such policies are not affected by the earnings limit . |
| 7 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 8 | But the Labour Government which had intended the Festival as a celebration of welfare-minded , egalitarian , planner 's Britain — a Britain where identity cards were still not abolished — was , by the time it opened , hanging on by a slender majority of six and , by the time it ended , on the point of being ejected . |
| 9 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 10 | While the lucky 30 guinea pigs in Bruno 's experiment were sampling his alternative dishes , the other pupils were tucking in to a typical school dinner of beefburger in a bap , sautee potatoes and jacket potato in cheese , or open sandwiches . |
| 11 | The river is impressive , tumbling down through a deep gorge , from which it has cut weird and wonderfully shaped holes in the smooth rock . |
| 12 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 13 | Cop the name of the man ( above ) who is stepping down from a top job . |
| 14 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 15 | Kneeling down on a soft surface , the patient may practise trunk movements using the gymnastic ball to support his arms and shoulders , while the physiotherapist controls the balance of his pelvis . |
| 16 | This consisted of a strip of patterned cloth with a fringe at each end , a knotted loop in the middle and the two ends hanging down like a modern neck-tie . |
| 17 | And there was a third T-shirt , which featured a black bloke clutching a basketball , with his 12-inch , semi-erect dick hanging down like a Nigerian salami . |
| 18 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 19 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 20 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 21 | For instance , judo flyweight Karen Briggs grappling on with a dislocated shoulder shoved back in its socket . |
| 22 | As the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) advised everyone in the Financial Times last week , ’ There is nothing to prevent a group of countries pressing on with a separate Treaty The fact is that we can not , even if we wished , stop the others going ahead . ’ |
| 23 | Only the Russians and some German Social Democrats keep banging on about a neutral Germany . |
| 24 | Ca' del Leone was built in a rectangle , its long inner windows and doors opening on to a grand terrace surrounding the courtyard . |
| 25 | The restaurant that had been chosen to introduce both the radio station 's new programme manager and image to the media was splendidly stylish , opening on to a lantern-illuminated balcony all the way down one side , décor and menu strictly Chinese . |
| 26 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 27 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 28 | The way we had taken was winding down towards a small lock or tarn . |
| 29 | Avoid bouncing up and down because an élite performer will simply wait until you are moving upwards before driving in with a strong attack . |
| 30 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |