Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HANGING ON Mr Mellor leaves home for work yesterday . |
| 2 | Few hats hanging on OSF/1 peg |
| 3 | YOUR EDITORIAL writers need reminding that our campaign of non-payment of the poll tax led to its abolition and substantially contributed to bringing down Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | They also missed a second half penalty , stand-in keeper Billy Drake saving from David McCabe after Graham McConnell had been sent off for bringing down Finty McConville . |
| 5 | The paramilitaries felt , quite rightly as it turned out , that the politicians would use them when it suited them and then reject them once the threat of anarchy had achieved the desired end of bringing down Brian Faulkner . |
| 6 | Juul was undefeated by an opponent in his four scheduled rides although in heat 13 when he came out for an extra race he was disqualified for unfair riding when bringing down Donny Odom and Steve Regeling . |
| 7 | If Mr Major is to avoid the men in grey suits seeking a meeting to discuss his future , he needs to do more to restore his authority than slapping down Mr Lamont . |
| 8 | There was an emergency Cabinet meeting shortly after 11 p.m. , and as it progressed the storm clouds that had been gathering all Saturday evening came to a head . |
| 9 | What happens in many of the significant films that emerge after the war is that the claims of the community and the individual are set against each other , bringing together Ealing realism and Gainsborough melodrama in a tremendously fruitful , if brief and explosive , relationship . |
| 10 | ‘ We want to see a coherent strategy drawing together Mr Hunt 's disjointed range of projects under global themes such as climate change , waste management , energy efficiency and biodiversity . |
| 11 | The Open Software Foundation is bringing in Gary Bard as chief operating officer , a new post reporting directly to president David Tory . |
| 12 | Nu reconstituted his Cabinet , bringing in General Ne Win as Minister of Defence . |
| 13 | I believe the world cricket authorities have got their act right by bringing in South Africa into the World Cup at virtually the eleventh hour and the IRB should not be stuck in the mud . |
| 14 | Yorath has made two changes , bringing in Crystal Palace utility man Chris Coleman for Swindon 's Paul Bodin ( knee ) , and QPR 's Tony Roberts as reserve goalkeeper for Sunderland 's Tony Norman , who is still suffering from a hand injury . |
| 15 | Their fifth-wicket stand realized 197 before Dujon went for 101 just before the close , bringing in Winston Davis as nightwatchman , replacing Marshall for his only Test of the series . |
| 16 | With this foothold , and after further controversial sackings , he took control , eventually bringing in John Freeman , the eminently respectable journalist and ex-Ambassador to the USA , as chairman . |
| 17 | He was also responsible for bringing in Lazlo Kovaks , the cinematographer whose filming of the American landscape brought untold dimensions to the movie itself ; he also joined later in the selection of another of the film 's major plus-points — the magnificent scoring and numbers performed by Steppenwolf , the Byrds , the Jimi Hendrix Experience , the Electric Prunes , Electric Flag , the Band , the Holy Mondal Rounders , Fraternity of Man , Little Eva and Roger McGuin . |
| 18 | British Rail themselves , the guardians of this heritage , gave a blockbusting philistine lead by demolishing the Euston Arch , an act somewhat akin to tearing down Salisbury Cathedral or Windsor Castle . |
| 19 | Effectively , taking control of a lethal weapon and driving down St Mary 's Road in Oxford , which is an ordinary residential street and kill someone and be sentenced to three years : I do n't think the public will think it 's enough . |
| 20 | Appearing down Grizedale West , he had to override the transmission balance and after just two stages they were putting in a new gearbox . |
| 21 | The other blackest , other blackest book is on next week , when we shall see Freud , erm psychoanalysing not Woodrow Wilson , but Moses . |
| 22 | The article also quotes a source at the Ministry of Industry as saying that the government wants the spin-off , with corporate outside investors for the new entity , adding that , although the government is not opening up France Telecom 's capital to outside investors , ‘ nothing prohibits the privatisation of its subsidiaries . ’ |
| 23 | She and her husband ran a restaurant for eleven years before opening up Ford Farm in 1973 . |
| 24 | ‘ You were seen walking up St Giles ’ towards North Oxford , just after lunch yesterday . |
| 25 | Paul Reece keeping out Bobby Barnes , with a little help from the cross-bar . |
| 26 | As usual , John Steane ( March , page 132 ) hits the mark in singling out Jussi Björling 's early recordings at the Stockholm Opera for special qualities of poetic ardour . |
| 27 | But Ralf Dahrendorf , when he left the post of director of the London School of Economics , answered the question ‘ Has Britain got a future ? ’ by singling out Steve Shirley . |
| 28 | Checking out Litla Skerry and the Vongs ( fangs ) — two isolated groups of rocks west of Out Skerries , where small groups of eider had been known to shelter — without finding any eider , we then went north around the main island , getting occasional glimpses of houses through the narrow entrances to the harbour . |
| 29 | With the existing ethnic balance between Czechs and Slovaks in senior positions , the new president has to be a Czech , thus ruling out Mr Alexander Dubcek , the leader of the Prague Spring of 1968 , who is also a Slovak . |
| 30 | While they were watching their single , another machine was knocking out Paul McCartney 's new album at one every 2 seconds . |