Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour , these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below . |
| 2 | Walking down towards the pueblo again , seeing the roomy spread of small farms , the elegant eucalyptus trees which shade them , a handful of birds break from the tall lupins . |
| 3 | The character of the whole place is best assessed by walking down from the castle rather than climbing east to west . |
| 4 | With a sharp pang of defeat , he noticed Benny dive headlong through the weakened window , ending up in the water below with a huge splash . |
| 5 | That had been their agreement , and , if she was walking out on the deal earlier than expected , it was as much his fault as hers . |
| 6 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 7 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 8 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 9 | Walking back alongside the canal again was familiar and reassuring . |
| 10 | If the court is satisfied ( by affidavit or other evidence ) that prompt personal service can not be effected because the debtor is keeping out of the way so as to avoid service , it may order substituted service in such manner as it thinks fit . |
| 11 | The front half of a fox , paws and all , its rear end replaced by a shield-shaped slab of polished wood , appeared to be leaping out of the wall just below the picture rail , in the manner of a circus dog emerging from a paper hoop . |
| 12 | An example of presentation infidelity , uncovered in our survey , was where companies showed a series of columns sloping back towards the right away from the common baseline of the X axis . |
| 13 | Spencer by now was n't very pleased , Elstree were n't very thrilled about him landing back on the runway either , and with the hydraulic fluid gone , there were no flaps either . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've set the table outside on the terrace , ’ Fernando told her , stepping through from the kitchen beyond . |
| 15 | Then , looking down at the book again , she went on , ‘ Are you sure she 'll be happy in the room next to mine ? ’ |
| 16 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |
| 17 | There was a man standing over the patient looking down at the face completely encased in bandages . |
| 18 | Looking down on the land over seven miles below from the lofty heights where jet streams vaporize behind you , it was hard to imagine the difficulties the old man must have faced . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've got to stop hating , that 's all , ’ he said , looking down into the pit again . |
| 20 | Nuala crossed to the window and perched on the ledge looking down into the street below . |
| 21 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 22 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 23 | So what we 're picking over on the plate now is not so much John Major , but the treatment of the press |
| 24 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 25 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 26 | I thought the plan had failed when , looking back on the hill there , I saw him in the valley . |
| 27 | One of the crewmen of the small boat stood looking out at the city all around him , smoking a cigarette and gazing at the myriad lights . |
| 28 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 29 | So I always try to do that but I , I , again I find that it 's very erm very tiring and it 's very , gets very can get very involved with it , so I would like us , I 'd like you to think of the idea of a social secretary to help with the raffles and organizing what 's going on at the meetings please . |
| 30 | Sara went to the top of the spiral staircase and crouched , listening to the argument going on on the floor below . |