Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 2 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 3 | A room vine climbing up the old chimney-breast … |
| 4 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 5 | They travel to Nottingham Forest tomorrow for a game with a real edge to it , with Brian Clough 's side propping up the Premier League . |
| 6 | He could see slanting light pointing up the brave thrust of her breasts , emphasising the marvellous trough of her waist above the firm swell of her nates . |
| 7 | there was a street light coming up the bloody |
| 8 | At snow falling down the blinded door . |
| 9 | The reasons are all too obvious : children in the camps , when asked to draw a picture about their lives at home , almost invariably produce scenes including helicopters bombing their farms or bodies dripping with blood flowing down the local stream . |
| 10 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 11 | And the Government is likely to spend the Christmas break weighing up the political options before deciding what to do next . |
| 12 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 13 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 14 | It 's hard work pumping up the inflatable with a foot pump , so why not use someone 's drysuit inflator instead ? |
| 15 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 16 | Posi 's voice sounded weary , like a parent pointing out the obvious to troublesome children . |
| 17 | Bacteria and fungi go to work breaking down the dead organisms ' protein into amino acids and converting them into ammonia , a useful source of nutrition . |
| 18 | Released worldwide on all formats on November 24 ( Sonic Tuesday , apparently ) , once again it sees the animal libber hedgehog taking on the evil Dr Robotnik through a series of worlds ( The Mystic Cave , The Toxic Plant Zone etc ) . |
| 19 | An all-star field will take part in tonight 's Calor Gas Grand Prix in Ballymena town centre with riders from England , Scotland , Wales and the south taking on the local stars . |
| 20 | The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration , previously held by Tove Strand Gerhardsen , was split into two , with Gunnar Berge taking over the new Ministry of Local Government and Labour and Oddny Alexandersen the Ministry of Government Administration . |
| 21 | Every cindery boulder making up the jumbled chaotic surface is loose , irregularly angular in shape , and covered in razor-sharp protrusions . |
| 22 | The two major forms of housing tenure in Britain are owner-occupation , which accounts for 51.5 per cent of the population , and local authority ( or council ) housing , which accounts for 33.4 per cent of the population , with housing associations , co-operatives and the private rented sector making up the remaining 15 per cent ( CSO , 1979 , p. 146 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's a boy digging up the old kitchen garden . ’ |
| 24 | It invited the institutions of the European Community to employ all means to ensure that the act setting up the European anti-drug monitoring body could be adopted before June 30 , 1992 . |
| 25 | The second , in 1552 , saw the publication of Hamilton 's Catechism , a vernacular work setting out the basic tenets of Catholic belief . |
| 26 | Erm obviously we can er prepare a note for the committee setting out the main features in what I would call our commercial strategy . |
| 27 | If we apply the equation simply to the electron by itself then the act of the microscope in determining the electron 's position has to be represented in a deus ex machina way as an external intervention bringing about the discontinuous collapse of the wavepacket . |
| 28 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 29 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |
| 30 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |