Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secure the long bullrush leaves around the pond , sticking on with a little fondant . |
| 2 | Sticking on with a little royal icing or glue , wrap the strip carefully around the edge of the roof , scalloped edge upwards . |
| 3 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 4 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 5 | It was not a historical accident that the sports in which blacks were overrepresented compared to their proportion in the general population were those demanding little in the way of equipment or facilities . |
| 6 | Scudamore interprets present-day embalming as ‘ a treatment consisting fundamentally of the injection of some suitable disinfecting preservative into the vascular system , augmented by the relieving of the blood from the superficial vein , and such cavity , cosmetic , and derma-surgery treatment necessary to achieve a pre-mortem appearance , aseptic condition and preservation ’ . |
| 7 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 8 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 9 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 10 | The type of frame you choose for your finished work is an entirely personal decision , based on your own likes and dislikes , but I would strongly suggest that you think about the type of frame you will be using right from the start of your work . |
| 11 | Shivering at the landing extension , I heard his brisk boisterous voice rattling on about the ! ! ! historic meeting of a famous comic and a famous bust who were going to make a film together . |
| 12 | Because advertising revenue is now critical , a paper or TV channel catering successfully for the views of the poor or the unemployed would soon go bankrupt , whereas those meeting the minority tastes of the wealthy remain financially sound . |
| 13 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 14 | Goin' on about the seats all the time she was . |
| 15 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 16 | UNCITRAL likewise engages in widespread consultation , drawing widely on the expertise of practising specialists . |
| 17 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 18 | Arty was still asleep , one arm hanging loosely over the side . |
| 19 | Continue working up the graph , row by row , again knitting right on the right and left on the left . |
| 20 | Like Jesus , they were , after all , devout Jews , working and preaching wholly within the context of established Judaic tradition . |
| 21 | Adam ran crashing downhill in a narrow dark ride , almost into the arms of a man who came striding suddenly out of the bushes , sword in hand . |
| 22 | WORLD 500cc motorcycle champion Wayne Rainey is critical in hospital after crashing badly in the Italian Grand Prix at Misano . |
| 23 | He must have taken the bucket outside but when he returned Robyn was still struggling furiously with the unfamiliar catch . |
| 24 | Striker John Borthwick wasted his side 's best opportunity of the half , latching on to a loose ball on the edge of the Stoke penalty area and making space for himself , only to fire lamely at keeper Ronnie Sinclair . |
| 25 | Ferguson marked his return by latching on to an Alan Main clearance to beat Murdoch to the jump on the edge of the box , and head in the fourth . |
| 26 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 27 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |
| 28 | Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata . |
| 29 | Cornucopia : rabbits , hunched and private , loping slowly about the lawn in the moonlight ; a green frog , gleaming and sparkling in the dewy sunlit grass as it wiggled along some compelling migratory path ; squirrels — quick flashes of ginger and grey in the treetops , a sudden glimpse of bright beady eyes ; a mythical fox — dusky shadow and sinister snowprints . |
| 30 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |