Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relatively simple observation of the activities going on within one 's head would produce such a phenomenological definition . |
| 2 | Mind you , it 's end of term , she 's got all the activities going on . |
| 3 | She could feel the defences going up again , brick by brick , but there was no way of breaching them . |
| 4 | ‘ I pity the pros starting out in this . |
| 5 | Much has been made of the contracts coming up for renewal with the main power generators in the United Kingdom — National Power and PowerGen . |
| 6 | I had an idea that I should make a show of dignity and tried to do this by looking straight ahead , as if the crowds moving up and down the platform were beneath my notice . |
| 7 | Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war . |
| 8 | Seven minutes is what it takes me at this time in the evening ; eight , sometimes nine , coming the opposite way in the morning , to allow for waits at the two pedestrian crossings and the crowds coming out of the station . |
| 9 | As she walked down the crazy-pavement paths to the lily pond , Constance was struck by the blackbirds hopping around in the sun . |
| 10 | ‘ The kind who were disappointed not to see the panzers driving up to Buckingham Palace ? ’ |
| 11 | Boro will be among the clubs stepping up their recruitment as their mid-table finish in North One proved they are some way short of promotion standard . |
| 12 | ‘ — the buds coming out , the crocuses coming up . ’ |
| 13 | You see all the buds coming out |
| 14 | The sight of the flames leaping up did much to hearten me . |
| 15 | An inefficient management must either improve its performance , or face the consequences of the shareholders selling out to an alternative managerial team . |
| 16 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 17 | One diplomat observed : ‘ The national colloquium and the discussions leading up to it gave the lower ranking researcher better status , and a feeling of more involvement in his work . ’ |
| 18 | It seems to have been assumed throughout the discussions leading up to the signature of the Convention that the use of the postal channel was indeed a mode of service , of notification . |
| 19 | Small blooms of fire exploded all around the sandbagged post and the steel door , the defenders huddling down for cover . |
| 20 | Even if you are not a skier , it is worth taking the funicular up to the slopes just to experience the journey and to marvel at the views opening out below . |
| 21 | The erm the views coming back from the consultant were obviously er so follow occasions but not dramatically so . |
| 22 | ‘ In the end I held them against my side under my arm with the suspenders dangling down and some woman said , ‘ Eh , girl them suspenders look as if you should be milking them . ’ |
| 23 | and my Lord er in relation to this judgment er you 've got the courts setting out the principal at page er one stroke five , forty , paragraph fourteen of the judgment that 's the principal of suspension and it 's then got it 's conditions for suspension on the next page , paragraph twenty two |
| 24 | The law reports abound with examples of the courts striking down or challenging exercises of discretion for improper purposes . |
| 25 | It was two more hours before they reached the barbed-wire perimeter that had been erected to stop the Germans breaking through . |
| 26 | In the event of the Germans pulling out after the development stage is finalised at the end of the year , what will be the cost and quantity implications for the procurement of the aircraft by the Royal Air Force ? |
| 27 | Show the Germans coming over , you know see 'em now you did n't have no street lights , did you . |
| 28 | It was all too much , waiting for that upstart Hitler to make up his mind ; to envisage the Germans strutting down the Mall as they 'd strutted down the Champs Élysées . |
| 29 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 30 | But as we prepared for the day in the early dawn , with the birds tuning up outside our African ‘ rondavel ’ hut , we both felt impelled to reach the tough core of the Right-wing settlers , Smith 's Rhodesia Front . |