Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 2 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 3 | She ate dinner alone before a fire made of driftwood that sent salty blue flames leaping up the chimney . |
| 4 | The following morning we were up at 3.00am , accepted slices of bread and jam and joined the line of headtorches walking up the glacier . |
| 5 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 6 | The scene is before me as I write , the garden with its sun-warmed walls , the last of the black cherries hanging on the tree , the sky webbed with long pink clouds . |
| 7 | In string theories , what were previously thought of as particles are now pictured as waves traveling down the string , like waves on a vibrating kite string . |
| 8 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 9 | A large percentage of recent spring birds have been recorded in parties flying up the Channel during the offshore movements of ducks , waders and terns , which are such a feature of spring migration in Sussex . |
| 10 | Speaking at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union , Lin Callis of NASA suggested that up to 75 per cent of the decline could be a result of the fluctuating solar cycle , with a build up of electrons and neutrons breaking down the ozone . |
| 11 | The simplest way of changing scenes is , simply , to cut : but this is often rather drastic , and risks breaking up the flow of the film . |
| 12 | As with new courses , in any one session , of all candidates actively involved in assessments , some will be taking assessments which are early steps along the way to the award , whilst others will be taking assessments which will complete the set of subjects making up the group awards . |
| 13 | The rain fell steadily , almost vertically , for several minutes , drops like pearls rolling down the glass and dripping on the sill . |
| 14 | 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase . |
| 15 | Once an integrated representation of the clause as a unit is created , the specific words making up the clause can be discarded from memory to make way for the words of the next clause . |
| 16 | The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort . |
| 17 | Members of seven parties making up the Union for Democratic Renewal ( URD ) , a newly formed opposition alliance , refused to join the government . |
| 18 | Basal or resting metabolic rate ( BMR ) is the speed your body burns calories at rest — in other words carrying out the job of staying alive : blood circulation , cell growth , digestion , thinking and so on . |
| 19 | She saw two cars disappearing down the dirt track , away from the cottage , their tail-lights gradually swallowed by the gloom and the relentless downpour . |
| 20 | The next morning we climbed still higher to 7,000ft , looking back down on Trevelez , its white flat-topped houses spilling down the mountainside , and crossed colourful cliffs and canyons to the village of Cadiar . |
| 21 | Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for 5–6 hours topping up the saucepan with boiling water from time to time . |
| 22 | We were led into a room , bare but for a desk , a chair , a row of helmets and a set of bulletproof vests hanging on the wall like carcasses . |
| 23 | The two rigs bringing up the rear , swung round in a complete circle , and reversed to sit side by side some thirty yards from the front door . |
| 24 | She was very religious … had texts hanging on the wall , framed text . |
| 25 | Outside , they heard Sybil 's shoes clattering up the stone steps . |
| 26 | An exception is the site at Ephesos leading up the hillside off Curetes Street where two insulae and a number of private houses ( domus ) have been uncovered . |
| 27 | Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house . |
| 28 | At the sound of his footsteps approaching down the hall , she rose to her feet and hurried out to meet him . |
| 29 | ‘ Rats scurrying down the anchor chain of a beached ship . ’ |
| 30 | Now she stood looking out of her bedroom window , feeling lonely in spite of the car headlights crawling up the avenue of tall cypresses towards the villa 's ornate façade and the first arrivals climbing the twin stone staircases to the central entrance . |