Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [noun sg] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or tearing down part of the prison ? |
| 2 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 3 | Inside the first , they came across Bob Merryfield , chief ghillie , sorting out part of the day 's bag . |
| 4 | Reuter retired in 1878 , handing over control of the agency to his son Herbert . |
| 5 | Despite being Motorola 's only volume outlet for 88000-based CPU systems , the company would n't dream , he says , of taking over fabrication of the part from its owner , in the same way that Silicon Graphics Inc is swallowing its chip supplier . |
| 6 | He wrote on art and architecture in collaboration with John Betjeman , taking over control of the Shell Guides to Britain from the poet . |
| 7 | He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company . |
| 8 | In the dispute with the Supreme Soviet , each side accused the other of taking over control of the paper in violation of the June 1990 USSR law on press freedom [ see p. 37541 ] . |
| 9 | Here , listeners were acting in a highly focused , not to say impulsive , fashion , and they were not carrying out analysis of the message at a level that would produce success . |
| 10 | Party chairman Sir Norman Fowler is also said to be considering renting out part of the building in Westminster . |
| 11 | The projectile was imperfectly aimed but exploded in Verdun , smashing down part of the Archbishop 's palace . |