Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 3 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 4 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 5 | The face was grinning , cheekless , with an eye hanging on to bare bone , glistening raw meat where great tooth marks showed clearly it had been half eaten . |
| 6 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 7 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 8 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 9 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 10 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 11 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 12 | International : Cotton republic is hanging on by slim thread |
| 13 | Meanwhile , in her mind , she had visions of the Brownings rattling along in high good humour with all manner of beautiful vistas to right and left as they trotted to Arezzo and she could hear the conversation and Pen 's excited laughter . |
| 14 | Peterborough are jogging along in midtable while United are slipping down … |
| 15 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 16 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 17 | Also , if the wheel brake is of the type that is applied automatically with full airbrake , remember that you should avoid touching down with full airbrake . |
| 18 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 19 | This allows the machine-chisel to shuffle back and forth , stepping down to full depth . |
| 20 | In a board reorganisation , Sir Brian is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 21 | MAURICE SAATCHI , who with his brother Charles created Saatchi & Saatchi , the world 's biggest advertising group , is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 22 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 23 | Daryl Foster is stepping down as Western Australia 's coach after 17 seasons . |
| 24 | By 1980 the operation was clearly prospering , bringing in on average £2500 per week in the second half of the year . |
| 25 | The female octopus lays her eggs in a hole or small cave sometimes attached to the roof of the lair , hanging down like tiny wax candles . |
| 26 | It was coloured in cement and grey , its slate roof dull with moss , great jagged lengths of cornice hanging down like broken fingers from its brow . |
| 27 | I mean , what would you do if you were a lawyer and a boy came in and started yapping on about missing Wills like in some kid 's story ? |
| 28 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 29 | JOHN Major keeps banging on about open government . |
| 30 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |