Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 2 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
| 3 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 4 | Hanging on the hours like heliotropes |
| 5 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 6 | Leave a crust of blood hanging on the nails |
| 7 | Now they sat in the tiny dressing room , their washing hanging on the radiators , eating health food and tirelessly sending information and soft-focus photographs of themselves to directors , theatres , agents , TV companies and producers . |
| 8 | We left our belongings hanging on the handlebars and |
| 9 | She sees her wig and familiar clothing , dry now , still hanging on the backs of chairs to one side of a dead fire . |
| 10 | He looked at the springy , sharp-edged lawn , the borders of stocks and pansies backed by honeysuckle and late roses , the baskets of purple trailing lobelias , red geraniums and white alyssum hanging on the walls . |
| 11 | We got back home and everything was still hanging on the walls , but there was more missing from the store . |
| 12 | Sedan chair ( linked to three — a tree ) : A blossom tree with sedan chairs hanging on the branches instead of flowers ; |
| 13 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 14 | ‘ Even bringing down the charges to £4 means the council will be incurring a £40,000 loss . |
| 15 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 16 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 17 | Glowing out at night — by bike with luminous tyres which allow more safety when speeding down the roads at night . |
| 18 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |
| 19 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |
| 20 | Most experts agree that restoring the balance would entail a massive engineering project drawing down the levels of the reservoirs to below that of the dams to enable young fish to reach the sea quicker . |
| 21 | That was when they first changed over from seamed stockings to seamless ones and started laying off the skilled knitters and bringing in the women . |
| 22 | Within a week Little Chef was running the yard , bringing in the ponies from the fields , doing tricks for pony nuts , retrieving lost balls from the undergrowth , then running on to the field and dropping them when there was a pause in play . |
| 23 | Many of our people are out in the hills bringing in the flocks , as are the Hearthwares — those we have left . |
| 24 | This was busy with carts and pack-horses making their way into Edinburgh , bringing in the products from both port and countryside to be sold at the markets . |
| 25 | Six goods trains arrived at Histon every day , bringing in the necessaries for jam-making : sugar from Amsterdam , Hamburg , and other Continental ports , earthenware jars from St Helens , Newcastle , and Chesterfield . |
| 26 | Sometimes actually bringing in the agencies of the law may be like pouring oil on a fire rather than pouring water on a fire . |
| 27 | Barefooted and bare-armed , she was bringing in the cows from the fields for milling . |
| 28 | confusing because you 've got two people bringing in the ideas , |
| 29 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 30 | Without bringing in the police . ’ |