Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he 's retired into the kitchen , of all places , and we 're having to feed him people to meet one by one , like birds bringing back food for their young . ’ |
| 2 | They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left , only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity . |
| 3 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 4 | This was achieved partly through capitalist agriculture driving out family farms . |
| 5 | In 1868 a flood of unprecedented proportions washed away most of the caissons ( the strong cases keeping out water while the foundations are built ) while the Skerne 's trusses were found to be flawless . |
| 6 | One might rhetorically ask whether , if the United States or Britain assumes the role of international policeman from time to time , it is not an odd sense of police priorities to protect an oil sheikh from a military tyrant , but to ignore the plight of Sudanese children when military commanders forbid landing rights to aircraft bringing in food that could save their lives . |
| 7 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 8 | For every evening wasted in the contemplation of Tubular Bells we spent no more than the time it takes to finish a vodka-and-lime soaking up Sugar Baby Love by the Rubettes . |
| 9 | It made no sound , and even seemed to absorb the sounds around it , like a sponge soaking up water . |
| 10 | Talent going down drain . |
| 11 | What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain |
| 12 | Noses trawl along the formica sideboards hoovering up powder . |
| 13 | on the Rhone pouring down snow |
| 14 | The scene , without the players , is the same today as you enter the low walled garden with its four pleasing square summer-houses at the corners and its grand sweeping steps leading up Swangrove is its exotic and inimitable rendering of the local Cotswold style . |
| 15 | Its owner admitted to us that he 'd spent the Cullifords and other people 's insurance premiums paying off company debts , but insisted he was trying to get their money back . |
| 16 | Provided that all the controls can be locked to prevent them getting damaged by slamming against the stops , parking the aircraft facing down wind will be safest , because then the wing is meeting the airflow at a negative angle . |
| 17 | Campaigns to save the whales have led to the International Whaling Commission gradually lowering its quotas and many nations giving up whaling in favour of protectionist policies . |
| 18 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 19 | Amid the build-up to the great birthday extravaganza , North Korea watchers have gone on the alert for signs of the president handing over power to Kim Jong Il . |
| 20 | He cites five such features of highly automated plants : the finely graded status structures of such organisations , arising from the more even balance than in other industries between skilled , semi-skilled , and unskilled workers ; the relatively smaller size of plants and work units ; the changed role of management ( with the work units taking over quality supervision and the machinery controlling the level of output , management is left with the job of providing advice rather than instructions ) ; there is blurring of the dividing line between manual and non-manual work ; and the greater prosperity and lower proportion of labour costs allows management to offer higher pay levels , a wide range of fringe benefits , and a high level of job security . |
| 21 | There is a dilemma about schools taking on fund raising responsibilities . |
| 22 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 23 | This square is very large and was originally faced with 70 offices carrying on trade with the whole ancient world . |
| 24 | Every firm or department carrying out building surveying work will , to a certain extent , be different from those in its peer group . |
| 25 | A second objection is that where both parties carry on business in Contracting States they can reasonably be subjected to the Convention automatically since it forms part of their national law , whereas parties carrying on business in different non-Contracting States who agree that their contract is to be governed by the law of a third State which is a Contracting State may well have in mind only the domestic law of that State and arguably ought not to be bound by the Convention unless they contract into it . |
| 26 | These may be a mere sale agreement or may include other ancillary agreements such as service contracts , licensing agreements , supply agreements etc. ( 2 ) Consider whether there are two parties carrying on business in the United Kingdom in the supply or production of goods or in the supply of services . |
| 27 | The Transkei 's military leader , Major General Bantu Holomisa , said yesterday that he had no objection to Mr Mandela setting up home in his territory . |
| 28 | Students who spend many hours writing up laboratory reports in the evenings have not organised their time effectively . |
| 29 | It may well be that children younger than nine years have difficulty picking up information about intentions from pictures . |
| 30 | He is also facing an inquiry over the taxpayer picking up part of his £24,000 bill to evict a self-styled sex therapist from his home and was embarrassed by revelations about his Access card . |