Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catching on to the coat tails of the downsizing rush just in time , CA said that it was surprised by the demands from its users for it to develop migratory and Unix-based applications — a far cry it admits from its traditional stronghold in the mainframe market . |
| 2 | Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings . |
| 3 | From this angle , stepping down with the altar candles behind him , his high shoulder and the bulge behind it scarcely broke the symmetry of a body beautifully compact and admirably handled . |
| 4 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 5 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 6 | Visiting locomotives are a main feature of the railway and during the Annual Vintage Day Rally on Sunday , October 11 , a scale replica of 0-4-0T ‘ Cadbury Number II ’ in maroon livery was steaming in to the record books . |
| 7 | ‘ Kopyion , ’ the Archon said , walking over to the police officers . |
| 8 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 9 | Slightly less obvious but essential to the winding up of the nerve endings is Michael Carr 's neglect of his wife . |
| 10 | The water , flooding over the pastures in winter and oozing up through the summer marshes , held the key to these balanced systems . |
| 11 | Out of the window , she could see a huge pink moon , like the inside of a guava , climbing out of the gum trees . |
| 12 | Add a little coloured royal icing oozing out of the tube mouths for extra authenticity . |
| 13 | Staff may wish to consider passing on to the library copies of any newsletters which they receive as part of society memberships . |
| 14 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 15 | Carrie was eager to tell her mother how business was picking up at the dining rooms but she was interrupted by footsteps on the stairs outside and a key being inserted in the lock . |
| 16 | Some time ago he had ordered that the front garden be flagged over , and now the weeds were pushing up between the paving slabs and the stones themselves had sunk in the ground at one end . |
| 17 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |
| 18 | Feeling pleased for them , I lowered the binoculars through which I 'd been able to see even the tears on Mrs Unwin 's cheeks , and there below me and in front of the grandstand was the man with the gaunt face looking up towards the Clubhouse windows . |
| 19 | Lewis stood on the front lawn , looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 20 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 21 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 22 | Research is spilling out of the broking houses by the shovelful , but often straight into the fund manager 's bin . |
| 23 | Cardiff pushed past , and now they were all heading down that corridor past the two elevators on their left ; still looking back to the reception doors lest that monstrous shadow should suddenly reappear . |
| 24 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 25 | Wycliffe-went to the window and stood looking out over the roof tops to the harbour and Albert Pier . |
| 26 | On the top floor she stood looking out of the dormer windows across the London skyline , and then downwards through the burgeoning green tracery of sycamore trees to where daffodils were blooming and a woman and a child were feeding some pigeons . |
| 27 | Vic inquires , looking round at the kitchen surfaces already cluttered with numerous electrical appliances — toaster , kettle , coffee-maker , food-processor , electric wok , chip-fryer , waffle-maker … |
| 28 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 29 | If you the trends then er going on to the going on to the House Builders Federation figures , that would not cause us to release more land within the greenbelt , as would the lower figure of the County Council , based on seventy five percent inward migration . |
| 30 | It seems that Jesus himself organised this last journey , from the borrowing of a donkey and its foal to the challenging protest against what was going on in the Temple courts . |