Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 2 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 3 | But you 're going to get a wider latitude and difference of i of of strength of economy by bringing in the eastern bloc in the short term . |
| 4 | Perhaps the essential task of bringing in the new democracies of eastern Europe will founder on economic collapse , ethnic unrest and social upheaval . |
| 5 | LAURA STONE , of the Liverpool Notre Dame Association , who sent us this report , commented : ‘ Let us remember all lay and religious people who are away from their own countries and families , working for those less fortunate than ourselves and bringing in the Good News from afar . ’ |
| 6 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 7 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
| 9 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 10 | He appeared in July ‘ 85 , ambling down the 18th fairway at Royal St George 's . |
| 11 | Your trousers , which can carry braiding down the outside seam as decoration , should be supported , however , and by braces . |
| 12 | ( Robyn goes into her long narrow living-room , formed by knocking down the dividing wall between the front and back parlours of the little house , which also serves as her study . |
| 13 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 14 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 15 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 16 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 17 | However he ruled out opening up the political system to a number of parties , insisting that national unity must be achieved first . |
| 18 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 19 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 20 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 21 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 22 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 23 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 24 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 25 | This exercise is brilliant for toning up the loose skin under the chin . |
| 26 | The alcohol inside was now only faintly blurring out the throbbing pain in his jaw . |
| 27 | One participant reported half empty rooms in sessions dealing with the ‘ new art history ’ of semiotics , gender , and dialogue , and unexpected demand for more traditional object-related sessions , crowding out the smaller rooms in which they were scheduled . |
| 28 | He had spent his time in a lodging house on the Strand , eking out the small amount of money Edward Morris had been able to lend him . |
| 29 | ‘ The chairman of Rothman 's , Lord Swaythling , recently wrote to me , spelling out the particular risk to Rothman 's workforce in the North-East . ’ |
| 30 | Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right . |