Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 2 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 3 | Laboriously carved out of rock and earth , their buildings are built in incredible terraces , one above the other , hanging on to the cliffs or nestled below them . |
| 4 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 5 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 6 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 7 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 8 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 9 | Scotch Whisky is inseparable from Scotland … of all the spirits mankind has distilled , refined and enhanced from nature 's huge store of goodness , Scotch Whisky is the noblest … a distillation of the natural riches with which Scotland is so abundantly endowed … clear waters tumbling down from the hills and across the moors , though peat and over granite … fields of golden barley … the cool , pure air . |
| 10 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 11 | And when he come into the pub he hears the village lads singing along with the machine and he has a go himself and gets to talking with everyone . |
| 12 | You can now stand the garter bar upright in the needle groove of your ribber , with the knitting hanging down between the ribber and the knitter . |
| 13 | It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall . |
| 14 | The group is pressing on with the expansion and development of NET but really needs the embryonic United States economic recovery to develop swiftly if short term returns are to improve . |
| 15 | James Lambert turned too , but towards the doors opening on to the yard and air . |
| 16 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 18 | So she changed direction again and found herself walking down to the prom and out along the beach to Seal Sands Lock . |
| 19 | maybe like Todd 's standing by the lake yeah and Jim 's like pissed out of his head and comes driving along in the truck and drives his truck into the lake or something . |
| 20 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 21 | I jumped up and ran laughing down through the grass and the bushes , down into the glen . |
| 22 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 23 | Howard went on to introduce his staff and patients , before ending up at the Doctor and Ace . |
| 24 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 25 | Her imagination visualised Luke — always an early riser — driving up to the house and immediately recognising Richard 's car parked outside . |
| 26 | Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called . |
| 27 | In on the fourteenth of July of nineteen ninety three the defendant took out a summons with a view to having all the outstanding matters resolved and er this summons came before erm deputy master on the twelfth of August nineteen ninety three and he gave various directions including an enquiry in relation to how the surgery premises er ought to be dealt with as in court in the winding up of the partnership and that matter went before Mr Justice long in December and he decided those issues and gave directions in relation to and how the premises are to be sold , the effect of the directions very vaguely , is that the premises have to be offered to the partners , if only one of the partners shows any interest then there is provision in the relevant deed for ascertaining the price and this is put to that partner at that price , if more than one partner wishes to buy the premises then there is provision for a fixing of a minimum figure and then each of the partners has to put in sealed offers er and the premises will be sold to the partner , the former partner who put in the last offer , that broadly speaking I think is the substance of Mr Justice order . |
| 28 | Having been made to look stupid , he let us go without even checking up on the tax or the tyre . |
| 29 | ‘ One moment , ’ he said , climbing up into the cab and sitting in the driving seat . |
| 30 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |