Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 2 | If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame . |
| 3 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 4 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 5 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 6 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 7 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 8 | No need to explain one 's reasons for suddenly looking out of the window . |
| 9 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 10 | Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand . |
| 11 | So going back to the parallel , have you had any thoughts about it ? |
| 12 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 13 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 14 | It 's a wonderful surprise to turn the corner , just yards away from the mayhem of the chairlift , and find yourself in wide , sweeping moorland , gently inclining up to the ridge . |
| 15 | She was soon forgetful of the time , however , her thoughts swiftly going back to the man who had put his finger on her doorbell at that hour in the morning , and kept it there . |
| 16 | We must make sure we do n't keep on disturbing the seed 's growth by constantly going back to the same people and badgering them . |
| 17 | On Aug. 28 , the Interior Minister , Daouda Rabiou , made a statement on national television apparently going along with the men 's action , and the government subsequently seemed powerless to do otherwise . |
| 18 | Well there there are three there are three organizations or companies there that I think you 'd be er happier in especially going out for the first time and also er your style . |
| 19 | Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation . |
| 20 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 21 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 22 | In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials . |
| 23 | The eyes of the riled flare , literally popping out of the sockets . |
| 24 | Keeping things simple is often the best bet , an investment of both time and effort is required to learn anything new , so diving in at the deep end with one of the full-blown integrated packages may cause more disruption than it 's worth . |
| 25 | ‘ But … but I love you ! ’ she cried , suddenly coming out of the trance in which she had been imprisoned , and desperately anxious that she should in some way communicate her feelings for him . |
| 26 | As the lava cools down further , to a dull red , more and more chilled fragments remain on the surface , and these small particles soon agglomerate together , forming progressively larger plates or rafts which cover the surface of the flow , the hot lava itself only glowing through in the cracks between rafts . |
| 27 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 28 | While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away . |
| 29 | ‘ And I 'm only coming back to the flat to get my bag , if that 's the way you feel . |
| 30 | These three members of the Procellariidae family have one thing in common : they are all ‘ night birds ’ , only coming in to the screes and grassy slopes of the cliffs under cover of darkness to change places with their mate on the single egg , deep within a burrow , or later to feed the young . |