Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several occasions they had come within inches of death — tumbling down 100ft deep crevasses . |
| 2 | ABC Music of Esher in Surrey will be bringing in Carvin electric guitars , basses , valve guitar combos and bass amplifiers as well as the new Quad X preamp . |
| 3 | Timber sales generated an income for the FC of £84.8 million in 1991/92 , with other operations bringing in £21.7 million . |
| 4 | This split barrier is an ideal solution for keeping out undesirables such as motorbikes while giving room for wheelchairs to pass through easily . |
| 5 | Of those it is worth singling out D. 32.95 and D. 33.2.34.1 , in which the jurist indicates ( in the first case implicitly , in the second explicitly ) that the use of the clause has turned out to have crucial consequences for the effectiveness of the testator 's will : for without it his will or some of its dispositions would have been of no force . |
| 6 | A Labour Chancellor will hope that by publically ruling out devaluation this would pre-empt a run on sterling and would limit any base rate rise to ½ per cent at most — thus avoiding a mortgage rate rise . |
| 7 | I 'm going to shape the right side of the neck first , so I 'll be knitting over needles 0 to 60 on the right of the machine . |
| 8 | But group turnover fell 10 per cent to £560.7 million , profits after interest plunged by 40 per cent to £5.6 million and after writing off £2 million in exceptional charges , mainly redundancy costs , profits before tax dived by 61 per cent to £3.6 million , for their fifth consecutive year of decline . |
| 9 | — HOWARD Wilkinson yesterday turned on the pundits writing off Leeds United 's championship chances . |
| 10 | In the next few days you will be briefed by your managers who will be picking up issues specific to your particular part of the organisation and who will act as feedback channels for your questions and concerns . |
| 11 | One will stalk along the margin of a lake , picking up insects dead or alive , or small pieces of bread or biscuit dropped by visitors . |
| 12 | After writing back £122 million of restructuring costs taken to reserves and several other adjustments , Midland chipped in only £184 million to attributable profits of £1.22 billion . |
| 13 | Palace are themselves interested in splashing out £2 million on Wimbledon 's Terry Phelan . |
| 14 | To improve its image , the firm is splashing out £3 million on sponsoring a boat in the 1993 round-the-world yacht race . |
| 15 | I I 'm going down south next week and I intend |
| 16 | WE 'RE GOING DOWN Pages 2 & 3 FIREBALL ON GUNPOWDER MOUNTAIN Pages 8 & 9 |
| 17 | Outside there was the noise of water rushing along gutters inadequate to their task . |
| 18 | I 'm going up stairs okay ? |
| 19 | nought point ten and going up point two of a second , that is fast ! |
| 20 | He wo n't just be pumping up muscles all the time . |
| 21 | Companies are estimated to be paying out £6 million a day in household and commercial claims — £1.30 for each £1 of premiums they collect . |
| 22 | Conservatives believe in good management and not paying out £ millions in interest . |
| 23 | Agriculture Minister Nexhmedin Dumani announced on Aug. 5 that officials were to begin measuring out land that week in readiness to return holdings to peasants dispossessed under the former Stalinist regime , following enactment of a land privatisation bill in parliament at the end of July . |
| 24 | A firm of their size must be pouring out cheques all the time , for wages , office bills , all its normal business . |
| 25 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 26 | According to their latest results they were eating up backlog last quarter . |
| 27 | Okay , minimum premiums , much lower , as we said , than the other two plans , because it 's not building up cash residual values . |
| 28 | President Bush issues an executive order calling up US military reservists for the first time since 1968 . |
| 29 | The $207 million includes payments to 1,700 families , in addition to the cost of buying up homes next to the dump . |
| 30 | The modern team are on a losing streak and are propping up Division One . |