Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hurricane would never blow itself out ; and at its eye was a figure already taking on the lineaments of a familiar enough twentieth-century ‘ type ’ , the male-dominated , passion-ridden female so well-known to the readers of the novels of Barbara Cartland . |
| 2 | The other girls had reached the top of the bank now , and they saw her long legs fairly leaping down the slope after the speeding pram . |
| 3 | Moreover , it took twice as long to cook outside , with the wind often blowing out the light . |
| 4 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 5 | Whichever way you go , you 'll come across bar after bar all turning out the latest in pop videos and the odd cocktail or two ! |
| 6 | Say a prayer and light one of the candles each Sunday in Advent gradually building up the light as Christ 's coming draws nearer . |
| 7 | Benjamin shouted at Santerre now walking down the nave towards us . |
| 8 | Is it connected with the variety of radical movements actually making up the counterculture ? |
| 9 | Simon actually counting up the cars next door , on the drive , getting , by that knowledge wanted to keep it . |
| 10 | She was nervous as she handed out the story , but she told it vividly , her body unconsciously acting out the story so that he could almost see and hear Rose and Dagmar . |
| 11 | The Plan can not cover you during the first 24 months for any existing medical condition you may be suffering from or have received treatment for in the two years prior taking out the Plan . |
| 12 | I spend half my time down in town there sorting out the problems ! |
| 13 | Before she could follow his movements he was by the coffee-table , the long fingers carefully flattening out the creased pieces of paper she had derisively hurled there . |
| 14 | Santa Barbara village street was deserted , except for Inés just opening up the shop to take in the milk left by the farmer . |
| 15 | Athelstan hid a smile , looking at the sweat still pouring down the fat coroner 's face , the great , stout stomach wobbling with a mixture of pride and anger . |
| 16 | But is GCHQ now sucking in the innocent ? |
| 17 | Communication between firms is unnecessary to achieve the market equilibrium , since this is done by the firms independently thinking through the logic of the situation . |
| 18 | I was in the supermarket the other day and then this bloke , I saw this bloke pick up this massive bottle of er vinegar right , and he took the top off there was some old woman just going down the aisle and he just started pouring it all over her |
| 19 | But the scale of the increase might come as a surprise : on the 21-week agreement 10p a week extra pushing up the rate of charge from 26. 1 per cent to 72.5 per cent for example , or on the 15-week agreement 1 p a week extra almost doubling the rate . |
| 20 | The user has also to construct a path through the relations thus setting up the linkages required at run time . |
| 21 | The results for this question were almost a mirror image of those for the preceding question , with the negative response to the proposition from the majority of sole practitioners easily cancelling out the positive answer given by the bulk of the remaining respondents . |
| 22 | The financial strain on the firm can be eased by : ( 1 ) effecting sufficient insurance cover ( see Chapter 5 ) ; ( 2 ) the inclusion of suitable provisions ( Clause 20 ) in the partnership deed clearly setting out the procedures to be adopted for the continuing partners to have the option to purchase the deceased 's share from his estate on an appropriate time scale or providing for an automatic accruer to the surviving partners ; ( 3 ) the inclusion of provisions in the deceased 's will enlarging the discretion of the personal representatives as to the time for realisation of assets in the estate and generally as to arrangements which may be concluded with the continuing partners ; and ( 4 ) where ( which is not unusual ) one of the personal representatives is a continuing partner , the inclusion in the will of specific authority for that partner in his capacity as personal representative and trustee to conclude agreements with the firm . |
| 23 | I will always have fond memories of watching Fred Daly jauntily striding down the fairways , whistling away and enjoying every aspect of the game . |
| 24 | As he went , his path was lit by the sudden brilliance of the flames which leapt up in his rear , their hungry roar almost drowning out the agonised shrieks of the writhing human torch in their midst . |
| 25 | Actually , plants are not the only creatures that can be better judges of character than many humans , for stories abound of dogs , horses and other creatures instinctively picking up the unpleasant and threatening vibrations from some human and responding with a personally directed snarl or with a well-aimed kick or bite . |
| 26 | Mothers were encouraged to give solids at a very early age and bottle feeding was predominant , with mothers incorrectly making up the feeds . |
| 27 | I can well imagine how he must have looked that day , framed by the doorway of the vehicle , his dark , severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him . |
| 28 | Expert systems coupled with NDT can greatly reduce the complexity associated with the interpretation of results thus speeding up the whole process and improving accuracy and consistency . |
| 29 | As with the NDT , expert systems coupled with CM can greatly reduce the complexity associated with the interpretation of results thus speeding up the whole process and improving accuracy and consistency of ground based analysis . |
| 30 | There 's a lot more going out the gate for a start Stu . |