Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 2 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 3 | Dyson let the clutch in with a belated jerk which brought some hard and heavy object tumbling down from the dashboard to hit Bill Waddy on the knee and roll away out of sight beneath the front seats . |
| 4 | And , every twenty minutes or so , a storm broke : thunder rumbled , lightning flickered , and tropical rain came crashing down from the showerheads fitted in the ceiling . |
| 5 | Stepping down off the chair to pick it up , so did I , and I got stuck . |
| 6 | The stepping down of the government followed resignation calls from all five of East Germany 's minor political parties , and from a deputy minister of culture . |
| 7 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 8 | Jonathan Russell , 27 , fell after climbing on to the battlements to take photographs . |
| 9 | Main picture : French windows opening on to the garden let plenty of light in to the kitchen — where practicality has n't been sacrificed for style |
| 10 | That night , walking down to the lodge to do her shift , she was surprised to see Matthew deep in discussion with two members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police . |
| 11 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 12 | A SHOP 'S vintage hangover cure is proving so popular that regular users are walking in off the streets to take it at £1 a shot . |
| 13 | He laughed wryly , walking over to the window to stare at the view she had enjoyed such a short time before . |
| 14 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 15 | Quite often she 'd make a grab , I 'd move with her and there would be a tug'o'war , ending up with the food breaking or her giving up . |
| 16 | The streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern sloping up from the Railway Works which lay behind a high camouflaged wall . |
| 17 | He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed . |
| 18 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 19 | Christina left Stephen a message before driving out to the airport to make her delivery . |
| 20 | ‘ Going about , ’ he shouted and watched in amazement the crazed proficiency of the little cocaine addict leaping back into the cockpit to winch the genoa sheet in . |
| 21 | From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines . |
| 22 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 23 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 24 | A good tight-fitting cap or hat is useful since there is nothing worse than groping about in the dark to recover a wind-blown hat . |
| 25 | In large-scale national surveys , as carried out regularly by market research firms and government agencies , interviews may be carried out over the whole country and the people who have the task of making the analysis of several hundred or thousand schedules can not possibly be for ever phoning through to the interviewers to ask what some cryptic little scribble opposite question number 15 is supposed to mean . |
| 26 | But he still made the best of his big moment by bounding on to the podium to collect his medal after the official ceremony was over . |
| 27 | Firbas , for instance , suggests that ‘ the basic distribution of CD is implemented by a series of elements opening with the element carrying the very lowest and gradually passing on to the element carrying the very highest degree of CD ’ ( 1974 : 22 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been fortunate , so far , ’ the Governor said , looking down at the man lying in the bed . |
| 29 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 30 | ‘ I came to hate the Tech-Green philosophy and did n't want to live out an expanded life up there somewhere , looking down on the unfortunates left on Earth . |