Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you like you can sign all it says is erm it just it 's just telling you what it is and saying that you do n't mind them typing up the words form this . |
| 2 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 3 | That 's where they should be , but we can see them lurking up the top there there 's |
| 4 | So to the beach Kaptan and I would go , or walk around the garden , pulling out weeds , me trimming back the undergrowth while he handed spare tools up the ladder . |
| 5 | Many passengers specially request to sit in the row of seats immediately behind the pilot , and you can see them checking out the instruments with the guide published in the airline 's in-flight magazine . |
| 6 | The worst hazard of standing in that crowd was someone pissing down the back of your leg . ’ |
| 7 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
| 8 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 9 | ‘ hooligans on housing estates causing disturbances in the common parts of blocks of flats , blockading entrances , throwing things down stairs , banging on doors , peering in at windows , and knocking over dustbins ; groups of youths persistently shouting abuse and obscenities or pestering people waiting to catch public transport or to enter a hall or cinema ; someone turning out the light in a crowded dance hall , in a way likely to cause panic ; rowdy behaviour in the streets late at night which alarms local residents . ’ |
| 10 | She plugged and unplugged that cross-wired old switchboard with the ease of someone switching on the radio . |
| 11 | On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished . |
| 12 | I 've seen the video tape of Tom and I coming down the 18th . |
| 13 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
| 14 | ‘ And I suppose that was the first you knew of my taking over the part ? ’ |
| 15 | To my surprise , by dint of my putting down the front seat , it fitted inside the car , so the public was spared the probably unusual sight of a coffin on a roof-rack . |
| 16 | There were stories about the echo on those records being created by someone standing down the end of the corridor and playing . |
| 17 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 18 | And then me picking up the keys living here and taking it down the road ! |
| 19 | They scribes , but even then if you 've got somebody climbing up the top of a palette , shouting |
| 20 | In spite of the Jockey Club 's apparent determination to play down the doping cases and its hushing up the Flash of Straw investigations until now , it does seem that there is a sinister element at large in British horse racing . |
| 21 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 22 | Tom found himself looking down the barrel of a gun . |
| 23 | BusinessWeek 's June 1 cover story on Intel , which puts its rushing out the P5 in a highly positive light , makes passing mention of an 80586 machine it 's designed under the code name Panther that OEMs can license describing it as ‘ a PC with workstation power . ’ |
| 24 | As he found himself speaking out the name into the imprisoned night of the Zoo he wanted to cry out with sadness . |
| 25 | When the youth swung round he found himself staring down the barrel of Graham 's Beretta . |
| 26 | It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance . |
| 27 | Seamus Mallon accused the terrorists of doing their talking down the barrel of a gun . |
| 28 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
| 29 | Loud Clachaig Inn climber revellers woke me clambering up the stairs . |
| 30 | There 's me turning over the pancakes , hear the door moving . |