Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am Spiderglass , he signed , and this time the symbol was a sunburst reaching out to help the benighted . |
| 2 | Imperceptibly the trees must have grown , yet they seemed to Adam no different from when he was a child coming up to fetch the milk and when , on sunless mornings , he had felt a kind of menace from the wood . |
| 3 | had this lady coming round to see the , do you think somebody will buy my Ghostbuster bag ? |
| 4 | For Yorkshiremen the meeting was like the town turning out to greet the local boy who scored in the Cup Final . |
| 5 | I mean I have to cope with about five thousand different individuals each week erm at Portslade Community College , erm fifteen hundred full-time eleven to eighteen year olds , and the rest adults from the community coming in to use the college . |
| 6 | He went to her and took her arm , coaxing her gently , almost tenderly across , then stood there , one arm holding tightly about her slender waist , the other reaching up to hold the strap . |
| 7 | At the at the Gorbels and after I was married During the war there was a terrific fire and he was burned to death in the lift going up to bring the girls down . |
| 8 | The figures that we 've produced show that on balance er it it 's about a neutral effect on Road er through the residential area because of this er reductions due to traffic going out to join the relief road rather than joining the A sixty one . |
| 9 | With an ear-shattering explosion , that bowled the CI5 men backwards , the van blew to pieces , black smoke billowing out to fill the kitchen yard ! |
| 10 | Luke got up quickly , sending his chair rolling back to hit the wall behind his desk with a crash that made Merrill jump . |
| 11 | He stood up suddenly , sending his chair skimming back to hit the wall behind him . |
| 12 | But he holed the long putt coming back to keep the match alive after Davies had safely made a par . |
| 13 | Archaelogists think it was probably done to stop the person 's evil spirit coming back to haunt the living . |
| 14 | Further , the principle of freely swapping weather data could be undermined by a firm setting out to market the information at the highest price . |
| 15 | But then Boro boss Lennie Lawrence gambled with three men at the back and his team found true Teesside spirit battling back to snatch the crucial win against all the odds . |
| 16 | We 've got a group of journalists , twelve journalists , from Dubai in Bath today and erm some , a wave of journalists coming in from Saudi a little later in the month , so everything 's happening and there 's a erm tremendous amount of activity going on to restimulate the market . |
| 17 | And the woman in a sunhat running out to save the washing , |
| 18 | Everybody danced with anybody and as almost every other building was a public house , there was plenty of material spilling out to keep the action going . |
| 19 | Instead of concentrating on the lines of the dance — which they will need if they ever dance in Ashton 's Symphonic Variations or Monotones , MacMillan 's Requiem or Bintley 's Consort Lessons — students spend more time loosening up to meet the demands of modern choreographers . |
| 20 | This came with time running out to stop the 200% US trade tariffs on £200 million of imported European goods . |