Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was the first stripping off of the so-called glamour that women of my age tend to cling to , not just actresses ’ . |
| 2 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |
| 3 | There are three basic considerations : ( 1 ) the need to avoid the consequences of a dissolution and winding up of the whole business ; ( 2 ) the need to define the circumstances in which leaving the partnership is permitted or made compulsory ; and ( 3 ) the need to anticipate the financial and administrative consequences of the departure of members of the firm . |
| 4 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 5 | A DEFENDANT on trial for a horrifying knife murder was on the run last night after walking out of the Old Bailey . |
| 6 | If mirth it was : she heard these sad wails and thought , I 'm laughing out of the wrong side of my mouth … |
| 7 | They drove back down to Florence , the Captain silent and thoughtful , the Substitute smoking , making the occasional rapid remark , watching the passing of the wet , ploughed soil between rows of vines and the tops of umbrella pines appearing out of the misty valley far below , smoking … |
| 8 | They saw the temple of the sun and the temple of the moon , driving out of the huge city past a tangle of ravines and yellow clifftops hung with shacks of corrugated iron and this and that . |
| 9 | climbing out of the middle window . |
| 10 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 11 | DANNY MEDDINGS continued his run of form with a surprisingly easy victory over Welsh No 1 , Adrian Davies , in last night 's opening round of the Daily Express British Players ' Championship at Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 12 | They have been punished by being stripped of their ability to claim benefit and by the pushing down of the real value of their training allowance . |
| 13 | The third term represents the effects of random chance , both via ‘ unintended ’ bequests ( in an imperfect annuity market ) and via saving out of the uncertain element of lifetime income . |
| 14 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 15 | He leaned sideways , looking out of the opened perspex canopy of the plane . |
| 16 | Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic . |
| 17 | And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest . |
| 18 | Looking out of the tiny window , she was disappointed . |
| 19 | Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library . |
| 20 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 21 | Half listening , half occupied with looking out of the open window at a flock of rooks riding in circles on the breeze , Melissa was vaguely aware of a succession of faint bumping noises in the distance , followed by returning footsteps . |
| 22 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 23 | It was only as we were doing this and grinning inanely at each other that I noticed the red Transit van turning out of the other end of the street . |
| 24 | They stared at the flat blade of rock jutting out of the turf-clad flank of the hill . |
| 25 | Next door the Northern Bank was severely damaged with window frames jutting out of the cracked masonry . |
| 26 | As we read the correspondence we seem to see Dorothy growing out of the gushing flibbertigibbet that she was in 1909 into a person altogether more substantial . |
| 27 | Many members of the Party saw the rapid growth in the constituencies as providing the basis for a new form of unitary political party growing out of the political wing and resembling the mass socialist parties of Europe . |
| 28 | Gunn creates the image of the part finished statue growing out of the unhewn marble block . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , but I ca n't let you do that , ’ she protested , pulling out of the warm security of his arms . |
| 30 | ( ANNE ) One of Britain 's top speedway clubs is pulling out of the British league . |