Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater . |
| 2 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 3 | Based very loosely on the Pat Barker novel Union Street — so loosely in fact that the Robert De Niro character Stanley does n't exist in the original — Stanley and Iris manages for most of its length to say a great deal about struggling along just above the poverty line . |
| 4 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |
| 5 | He speaks English in a curious way , that improbable Dutch-accent tongue slapping down hard on the vowels , like shoe leather on a dry pavement . |
| 6 | Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery . |
| 7 | The position of the outlets on the fascia board can be determined by a plumbline hanging down centrally over the gully or drain inlet . |
| 8 | Part of the rope still swung there , hanging down directly over the water . |
| 9 | ‘ But I do n't think either ourselves or Forest will be struggling down there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 10 | She peered out into the office , winding down now at the end of the first day : at the two constables scribbling notes at their desk , at another sitting at the HOLMES computer , at a WPC glancing through the actions book . |
| 11 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 12 | Now the cartoon Princess stops at the point where she is clad in sexy underwear , instead of stripping down further to the G-string . |
| 13 | Here , someone had gone to considerable lengths to get the cushions toning in nicely with the curtains . |
| 14 | I was walking through here to the office . |
| 15 | If she did n't get some decent sleep soon , she 'd be in severe danger of cracking up completely under the strain . |
| 16 | ‘ Have you got any food ? ’ said Adam hoarsely , hunching up sideways in the driver 's seat . |
| 17 | Berwick was a slantwise town , sloping up northwards from the harbour area , its outer walls halfway up to the castle . |
| 18 | All the time he had this great bursting feeling of utter incredulity inside him ; it kept exploding , he kept laughing out loud at the memory of the amazing appearance before his very eyes of this whole new life ; the shock of it would not fade . |
| 19 | He felt for a pulse then , letting the gunman 's arm drop , he holstered the Browning before walking back slowly towards the doors . |
| 20 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 21 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 22 | Fortunately it was dusk , and firing was dying out all along the line . |
| 23 | And of the four who had climbed into the stockade , only one was not wounded , and he was climbing out again with the fear of death in him . |
| 24 | Not like now with all these casualties walking around all over the place , getting into fights . ’ |
| 25 | While he , Owen , was tearing around all over the place like a bloody lunatic ! |
| 26 | Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached . |
| 27 | And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either . |
| 28 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he shrieked , twisting about madly on the ropes that suspended him . |
| 29 | You do n't realize and then you thi you 've got these three bodies all wrapped round me and me er sort of walking round cheerily down the road with them . |
| 30 | They are all living on somewhere in the world . |