Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the sounds are bright and punchy , the humbucker dishing out the appropriate amount of clean chunk or coil-tapped crunch when desired . |
| 2 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 3 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 4 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
| 5 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 6 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 7 | The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example . |
| 8 | Erm obviously we can er prepare a note for the committee setting out the main features in what I would call our commercial strategy . |
| 9 | It invited the institutions of the European Community to employ all means to ensure that the act setting up the European anti-drug monitoring body could be adopted before June 30 , 1992 . |
| 10 | An all-star field will take part in tonight 's Calor Gas Grand Prix in Ballymena town centre with riders from England , Scotland , Wales and the south taking on the local stars . |
| 11 | Negotiations with a difficult character ( e.g. the Pied Piper holding the town 's children in the mountain caverns ) are better conducted with the teacher taking on the problematic role because the teacher can judge just how difficult to make the task , and can allow the children success when they need it . |
| 12 | As we pulled our tuxedos over our damp shirts and straightened our bow ties we could hear the band striking up the bridal march . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never seen anything so magnificent , ’ she said , and stared at the water cascading down the three-tier construction . |
| 14 | Directly into a drain , so we never s that 's why we did n't see it , because the water was actually pouring down a drain , so of course we did n't see the water lolling up the waterlogged ground , otherwise we 'd have spotted it earlier . |
| 15 | The actual income and expenditure for the project will probably not be known by the person carrying out the short-term programming . |
| 16 | Erm I the actual income and expenditure of a project of the project will probably not be known by the person carrying out the short-term programme . |
| 17 | Wallis never forgot how Minton , whilst painting this portrait , skipped to and fro across the floorboards at Shaftesbury Villas ‘ like some lean fencer with his long brush stabbing at the canvas ’ , all the while throwing out the liveliest sallies . |
| 18 | This will be a truly gigantic equation in this instance , for it will have to describe not only the electron and the microscope but also the observer peering down the latter 's eyepiece . |
| 19 | The favoured solution , the nationalization of the arms firms , was generally presented as an anti-monopoly measure quite acceptable to liberals , not as ( what actually it would have been ) the state taking over the commanding heights of the economy . |
| 20 | When the protest finally collapsed , Richard Branson stood by the door ushering out the gypsy-like throng , politely removing the records , tapes , posters and movable items of office furniture which had been secreted in robes and kaftans . |
| 21 | The Evangelicals recommend ‘ Ragged Schools ’ , Sunday schools , and regular churchgoing as the cure ; they agreed with the Benthamites that education was the ladder leading up the economic scale . |
| 22 | They are immigrants who travel across the world breaking down the moral order , bringing chaos to organized society . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It 'd be a brave person who would be against the Golf romping out the other end in front . |
| 25 | I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits . |
| 26 | Thus the right hemisphere is well-placed to undertake the early parallel , preconscious scanning of large amounts of information , the left taking on the later function of conscious elaboration of selected items . |
| 27 | When you and I were in our slit trenches sheltering from the shit that 's flying about , these two here were running around the orchard picking up the dead and wounded . ’ |
| 28 | Closed doors stopped the fire taking over the whole building in Borough Road . |