Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switching On or Switching Off ? |
| 2 | These baby universes are so small that one would not notice them joining on or branching off . |
| 3 | What else is going on or coming up … its all in our action round up … |
| 4 | A third reason for isostatic anomalies is that there are dynamic forces present in the sub-lithospheric mantle which are capable of actively dragging down or pushing up the lithosphere . |
| 5 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 6 | It might be as straightforward as writing down or calling out an answer , pressing a button , etc. or it may be a task that requires manipulative skills such as wiring an electrical component or threading a needle . |
| 7 | The links between the mind and health are not yet fully understood but there is sufficient evidence to suggest that physical illness is not a straightforward matter of bodily components breaking down or wearing out . |
| 8 | any motor vehicle waiting to set down or pick up passengers in accordance with regulations made or directions given by the chief officer or police in regard to such setting down or picking up ; |
| 9 | W when you were covering P C were you sitting down or standing up ? |
| 10 | Because so many firms in the area were either closing down or cutting back production , there was a steady supply of textile machinery being sold very cheaply by local auctioneers . |
| 11 | In all the really agricultural villages and parts of the kingdom , there is a shocking decay ; a great dilapidation and constant pulling down or falling down of houses . |
| 12 | ) The same may be said of the glissando , produced by rapidly drawing in or pushing out the slide . |
| 13 | For the family it was a place to traverse when coming in or going out : familiar , unnoticeable . |
| 14 | But voters are fickle : no-one knows whether the Lib Dem tide is coming in or going out . |
| 15 | Always to wear the same expression on one 's face whether one is going in or coming out ? ’ |
| 16 | Scottish prisons process roughly 19,000 people a year who are either going in or coming out . |
| 17 | The interviewing panel of Horsley , Pilger and Hayling , with Kerry Brown and Maxine Johnson representing the Founders , was supplemented by Christine Jackson , sitting in and limbering up for Equal Opportunities . |
| 18 | The common misery imposed by coal rationing could be avoided by the simple expedient of plugging in and switching on , and in the later 1940s about two-fifths of domestic electricity sales were for space heating . |
| 19 | They did n't want the Yanks stumbling in and screwing up in an attempt to force the issue . |
| 20 | After walking in and setting down their pocket tape recorder , they soon reveal themselves as inarticulate and badly prepared and the whole encounter is punctuated with long , awkward silences . |
| 21 | For a really weird effect , it could be combined with an actual camera movement in the opposite direction ( tracking in and tracking out , so called because it used to be done on tracks like tramlines rather than free wheels ) . |
| 22 | Instead of the dominant males moving in and taking over the females during the breeding period , they are simply allowed in for mating only and then driven out again . |
| 23 | You can ‘ be alive ’ as opposed to ‘ being dead ’ ; or you can do your best to live life to the full — putting in and getting out as much as possible . |
| 24 | Tactfully joining in and getting out of conversation can be difficult . |
| 25 | The floor of my brick garage is lower than the surrounding area , and I had trouble because water kept leaking in and collecting along one side . |
| 26 | Strachan embarassed Dicks more than once by nipping in and streaking up the wing . |
| 27 | THIS IS the day for signing in and checking out fellow schmoozers ; for ploughing through the completely bewildering gig schedule , and trying to work out just how we 're going to survive the next 100 hours without losing any important internal organs . |
| 28 | You can elaborate the scheme so that the electricity can be produced when the water is both flowing in and flowing out , and you can have extra divisions to ensure that electricity can be produced at all hours of the day or night , regardless of the condition of the tide . |
| 29 | Tuning in and turning on |
| 30 | But this would be moving in and making up the message in the style of the ‘ missing ’ letters in Poor People , the first story of all . |