Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 2 | A man was actually charged with the crime at a Glasgow police station after walking in out of the blue and making a confession . |
| 3 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 4 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 5 | The thinning veil of cloud eddied in a gust of wind , and suddenly we were below it , looking down on to the flat roofs of a town spread out in a broad valley of rain-washed green . |
| 6 | Fountains how could you convey the sense of waters , swirl , surging up out of the deep or something . |
| 7 | ‘ How dare you come barging into my room without knocking ? ’ she gasped , scrambling up on to the rumpled counterpane , two hands going up to her blonde hair as she felt his gaze take a rapid inventory of her voluptuous disarray . |
| 8 | On a raised dais in front of large windows looking out on to the agricultural college gardens sat the Inspector . |
| 9 | But as I sat with my legs dangling over the edge , looking out on to the quiet water meadow , the anarchy of Delhi seemed far away and I began to see why in all the most sensible cultures , Paradise was envisaged as a walled pleasure garden . |
| 10 | He stood for a while , looking round about at the quiet dunes and the settling birds . |
| 11 | So the cameraman , looking through his viewfinder , could see the caption slide through the glass plate , plus sufficient reflection of the action going on over at the black drape set . |
| 12 | There was a mangle in one room rearing up out of the cardboard boxes like a stag , the chaos ( or the wolves ) had not yet pulled down . |
| 13 | The lead climber , Sedlmayer , caught sight of a possible bivouac ledge , and simultaneously a man 's face , looming up out of the icy fog . |
| 14 | ’ And so he did , puffing up out of the silvered , twilit bowl of Aurae Phiala , ominous at dusk under a low ceiling of dun cloud severed from the earth by a rim of lurid gold . |
| 15 | That 's the danger of a book as seductive as this one , the memories come flooding back along with the great names : Bobby Collins , Tommy Ring , Roy Vernon , Jimmy Gabriel , Colin Harvey , Joe Royle , Gary Lineker , T.G. Jones , John Hurst , Jimmy Husband , Kevin Ratcliffe , Tony Kay . |
| 16 | Lying back down on the rumpled bed , she stretched luxuriously , then hooked her hands round the bed-head and stared up at the ceiling , a soft smile on her face . |
| 17 | Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves . |
| 18 | A white opening was visible , however , and they redoubled their efforts , tumbling out on to the gentle open slopes within seconds . |
| 19 | He went back into the kitchen and Alison unlocked the window , stepping out on to the clay-tiled terrace . |
| 20 | And then the time was suddenly right , and there they were , stepping out on to the blessed soil of his native land . |
| 21 | She looked across to where the lawyer stood , quietly detached by one of the windows of her large saloon , gazing out on to the extensive gardens . |
| 22 | He sailed past the President 's beach house before coming over on to the other track . |
| 23 | They 'd finished their show and were coming back down to the damp and squalid cellar the management refused to redecorate because of its ‘ classic atmosphere ’ . |
| 24 | As we threw things in the car , thick purple cloud was boiling up out of the hidden cauldron of the Sélé glacier and over the Ailefroide Occidentale . |
| 25 | If this happens at the same time as the inevitable swing into wind , it can result in a very rapid rolling over on to the into-wind wing-tip . |
| 26 | The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right . |
| 27 | There might be some mist floating around down in the southwestern part but generally those temperatures will be above freezing . |