Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Stepping down off the chair to pick it up , so did I , and I got stuck . |
| 3 | Jonathan Russell , 27 , fell after climbing on to the battlements to take photographs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He laughed wryly , walking over to the window to stare at the view she had enjoyed such a short time before . |
| 7 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Christina left Stephen a message before driving out to the airport to make her delivery . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Another very common action is pushing down on the legs to propel the body upwards . |
| 15 | Leaning forward I had a view of it in the side mirror , the bend we had just rounded obliterated by a great mass of avalanching rock and mud that went spilling down over the edge to disappear into the cloud vapour below . |
| 16 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , looking round for the waitress to give us more coffee , ‘ I still hate vomit . |
| 18 | The theatre was not large , and the bulk of the audience were out in a couple of minutes , umbrellas raised , heads dropped , darting off into the Village to look for their cars , or a place where they could put some drink in their systems , and play critics . |
| 19 | Nobles attending the court were ordered to go first to the apartments of Dara Shukoh and there make their morning obeisance before going on to the Diwan-i-khas to greet Shah Jehan . |
| 20 | She was visiting her mother before going on to the hospital to feed the baby . |
| 21 | Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen . |
| 22 | Because you were the one who kept going on about the need to keep it secret . |
| 23 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 24 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 25 | Or , for instance , the floating roadway where traffic was going down on the barges to go across the river , it would be well worth any particular company to have a word with the officer on the floating roadway to let their vehicles through first . |
| 26 | First I 'm going down to the village to fetch old Bonnie and get her to have a look at that ankle . |
| 27 | The guardian asked three climbers going down to the village to inform the police , as he was unable to contact them himself since the refuge radio was broken . |
| 28 | What with the doctor going straight out and the deceased going down to the kitchen to thank both staff for a very good meal there was n't time — even if she took it herself , which is unlikely from all I hear . ’ |
| 29 | We 're going down to the beach to look for mussels . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm going in to the kitchen to see how Mrs Porter 's getting on , ’ Belinda announced firmly , cutting off Tom 's words . |