Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 2 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 3 | Another mechanical argument against Copernicus concerns loose objects such as stones , philosophers , etc. resting on the surface of the earth . |
| 4 | He was obviously moving left or right depending on the fall of the coin . |
| 5 | Finally , a screw-in side handle is fixed on to the alloy gear cover , offset either to the left or right depending on the user . |
| 6 | I mean you mentioned the tennis club which was great , you know you went back there but you know that was a , a wee thing to pick on depending on the company |
| 7 | And he said no , buy a badge now with a dog 's head on depending on the breed of dog you 've got , and it says on it I live here . |
| 8 | Jack was very much in the groove , rarely deviating from the fairways and the centre of the green , but was a mere one shot under par , while Miguel was one shot better . |
| 9 | She carries on mowing with the vacuum cleaner . |
| 10 | The Chancellor will need little reminding of the importance the industry attaches to negotiating satisfactory arrangements for excise duty ‘ harmonisation ’ . |
| 11 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 12 | She landed up with still more work on her hands when the wardrobe mistress fell ill and she found herself gamely stepping into the breach . |
| 13 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
| 14 | These effects may express themselves differentially locally depending on the size of the city , but they are essentially national in character and reduce the influence attributable to local factors ( Newton 1976a:17 ) . |
| 15 | Its objectives were to oversee a ceasefire and to bring to an end the civil war , thereby allowing for the formation of an interim government and the holding of free elections . |
| 16 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 17 | But he was most sparing with the anger on celluloid : would rather fake it than summon it up . |
| 18 | Sitting on the veranda herself a short while later as she worked on a lacy white shawl she was secretly knitting for the baby , Belinda murmured aloud , ‘ I hope Tom comes today . |
| 19 | Standing anywhere on the ridge one could catch sight of the sun delicately resting on the top of the distant hills which marked the far end of the grazing plains . |
| 20 | And Murphy 's Law invariably applies : if you do n't want anybody to knock on your door — because you 're putting the kids to bed/washing your hair/making love/cooking something impossible like a souffl é/late; for just about anything/working to a deadline/just secretly reclining on the sofa with a packet of your favourite chocolate biscuits , watching Coronation Street — somebody always will . |
| 21 | The following spring the same duo , neither of whom had climbed since the previous autumn , was optimistically toying with the idea of opening the season with Dream of White Horses on Gogarth . |
| 22 | Redmond , now with Oldham , is slowly recovering from the misery of his final few months at the club he joined as a boy . |
| 23 | All that and Benn has made the grand gesture of giving his new WBC belt to his first conqueror , Michael Watson , who is slowly recovering after the brain damage he suffered against Eubank last year . |
| 24 | This again differs widely depending on the degree of the handicap , and autistics may be found at the farthest extremes of social and academic capability . |
| 25 | The rents charged in privately-rented furnished flats vary widely depending on the size , furnishings and locality . |
| 26 | The rents charged in privately-rented furnished flats vary widely depending on the size , furnishings and locality . |
| 27 | Even the pay of domestic servants varied widely depending on the status of the employer and the sex and duties of the employee . |
| 28 | The significant measure , of course , is the ratio of runoff to rainfall and this seems to vary widely depending on the amount of the rainfall and the nature of the surface on to which it falls . |
| 29 | Present-opening sessions are generally unpredictable affairs , the pictures being shot with mobile camera on a catch-as-catch-can basis with the sound mostly consisting of the rustling of wrapping paper being undone and the excited squeaks of the recipients . |
| 30 | As it is only about two or three feet wide , this is a little demanding on the imagination . |