Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 2 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
| 3 | The Bush administration sent contradictory signals about its intentions to continue its economic strategy of keeping down the federal deficit while awaiting recovery in 1992 . |
| 4 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 5 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 6 | For toning up the whole body and increasing your stamina , swimming and running are both excellent . |
| 7 | They spend seven to ten days in a particular area , seeing bands , checking out the local press and radio stations , getting contacts for future reference . |
| 8 | She remembered looking down the sunny garden and feeling content . |
| 9 | Never begin filling in the real form until you have practised at least once on a photocopy . |
| 10 | It 's simple to do this now by filling in the direct debit and covenant on the back of the donation form . |
| 11 | President Franois Mitterrand , answering viewers ' questions in a television appearance yesterday , warned against writing off the Socialist Party as dead and said the first aim must be to reunite it . |
| 12 | She placed the receiver down and reached to the table top , picking up the silenced gun and holding it gently in both hands . |
| 13 | Now , as the cold winds blow in New England , our transatlantic chums in Citizens seem to be doing a repeat act , picking up the odd dime or at least two Five Cents , Plymouth Five Cents and Boston Five Cents . |
| 14 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 15 | Before this the tree roots held the soil in place by soaking up the heavy rain and letting it go slowly . |
| 16 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
| 17 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 18 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 19 | Anyway , in that desolate chamber at Sheen I removed soft buskins from the corpse 's feet , carefully pushing back the blue robe and the white cotton shift beneath . |
| 20 | One source of recruitment has always been the armed services , not only because their staff have already been security vetted , but also because they are used to carrying out dull repetitive chores and filling out the endless paperwork that forms the major part of any intelligence operation . |
| 21 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 22 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 23 | She crossed the stableyard and went into the house , hurrying down the long passage until she arrived , flushed high in expectation , at the service door to the dining room , where Maman and Dada and Aunt Tossie were eating breakfast . |
| 24 | Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene , damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 26 | TRAP TWO : Running up big bills on credit cards means you 'll have trouble paying off the full debt when the statement arives . |
| 27 | The only people who had trouble in adjusting to work were those who for some reason deviated from this model — either by going up the social scale or by going down it ( social mobility is more fully discussed by Geoff Payne in this volume ) . |
| 28 | Behind him , two men in long overcoats stepped out from the shadow of a doorway and watched the young man turn to the left again , heading up the main backstreet that led to Joseph Hyde 's flat . |
| 29 | She was supposed to do this , unless it was raining , by going out the front door and down the area steps , rather than through her grandmother 's bedroom . |
| 30 | Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘ |