Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] and [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember as a young man walking up and down the main street of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition for the sheer pleasure of it , and thinking how marvellous it would be if every town could have a street like this . |
| 2 | The most vivid memory I have of that Christmas Day is of Shanti , now almost two years old , walking round and round the long dining-room table , pulling a little toy engine given to her by one of the boys , round and round , smiling and smiling . |
| 3 | Though himself a Lancastrian from Morecambe , he is interested in the whole tradition of the race and believes that walking round and round the same circuit would destroy the whole spirit of the race and is not to be contemplated . |
| 4 | THE Jack Kane Sports Centre was the venue recently for an ‘ Open Day ’ for physically disabled people living in and around the Greater Craigmillar area of Edinburgh . |
| 5 | He stood for a moment , looking up and down the dark street before quietly entering the passage . |
| 6 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
| 7 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 8 | I was sticky with mud , and my mind kept going over and over the extraordinary events of the afternoon and evening . |
| 9 | It was n't until later , when Robyn heard Anne 's key in the lock , that she realised just how long she had been staring into space , miserably going over and over the disastrous weekend , in a futile attempt to try and put it all back into some sort of perspective . |
| 10 | This is an example of a patient who has a stable cystometogram and in the course of the voiding study voids with a high pressure , the stylus is going up and down the whole time |
| 11 | going up and down the same place every day |
| 12 | After hours of going round and round the stable yard , he was at last satisfied with her deportment in the saddle and she , herself , felt at one with her mount . |
| 13 | He remembered that he had been lost , apparently going round and round the same spiralling loop of bumpy and frozen track . |
| 14 | But higher speeds than the normal three kilometres per hour pose problems getting on and off the moving walkway . |
| 15 | Er that in my view wo n't happen because the I five sites we will still be allocating in and around the main urban areas . |
| 16 | Riding round and round the big Flame-tree , Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben looked marvellous . |
| 17 | he were running up and down the little bugger ! |