Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 2 | Left : In the kitchen , Philip painted an impression of sunlight filtering on to the wall in a style reminiscent of a Hitchcock film |
| 3 | A midwinter day … the wind to the north , the sky in rags , hail whipping in from the islands in dark squalls . |
| 4 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 5 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 6 | The rope , however , was no longer hanging down through the hole in the ceiling . |
| 7 | I do n't want you walking down to the pub in this , in the dark cold night . |
| 8 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 9 | He freely admits the increasing extravagance of the average suburban wedding has more to do with keeping up with the girl in the semi next door than sticking to tradition . |
| 10 | ‘ the whole object of the section is to assimilate the practice in winding up to the practice in bankruptcy , which was established in order to enable assignees , who are now called trustees , in bankruptcy to find out facts before they brought an action , so as to avoid incurring the expense of some hundreds of pounds in bringing an unsuccessful action , when they might , by examining a witness or two , have discovered at a trifling expense that an action could not succeed . |
| 11 | From its inception in 1983 to the winding up of the programme in 1987 the government through the Training Agency ( formerly the Manpower Services Commission ) will have committed close on 1 billion to TVEI . |
| 12 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 13 | At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor . |
| 14 | She was found dead hours after walking out of the unit in a suicidal state after her family had been told it was secure . |
| 15 | Probably Dizzy 's gang , keeping out of the way in case the sight of others working made them feel weak . |
| 16 | The fact is that as a consequence of climbing out of the depression in the early 1980s , of remodelling our business processes , and of becoming a serious entrant into the high tech race , the work force profile has changed and will continue to change . |
| 17 | If you practised walking around with the model in the hover , you should have got the hang of this already . |
| 18 | The reason for the preserving and passing on of the traditions in this way was that they were used primarily by the early Church in its teaching of the community . |
| 19 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 20 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 21 | And she stood looking down at the key in her hand , while she said to herself , ‘ Well , this seems to decide it , does n't it ? ’ and turning , she yelled , ‘ Ben ! ’ |
| 22 | Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
| 24 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 25 | Both aircraft head-to-head at Farnborough were built in 1944 at the Oklahoma City plant , but beyond that they went very separate ways until meeting up in the UK in September , both toting turboprops . |
| 26 | White cracks showed in the grey , white cracks fanning out like the bones in the wings of birds . |
| 27 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |
| 28 | Jack fell quickly into the routine of looking out for the absurdities in his father 's speech to put into a P'dayta-Pie for Warnie ; but he had no heart for it . |
| 29 | As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea . |
| 30 | He reached the top of the bank , lizards scattering out of the way in front of him . |