Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 2 | But I thought we wanted to keep this a low profile bungalow and that 's pushing it up the same as the other one in Grey Lane went up . |
| 3 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 4 | ‘ I had to lay him off but I had every intention of bringing him back the following season . |
| 5 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 6 | He was still brazening it out the next morning when the Provost and his bodyguard of twelve mounted serjeants and ten archers came to collect us . |
| 7 | Dragging myself down the unlit hallway floor like a slug , I coiled myself back , back to the back room , and ate and waited . |
| 8 | The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important . |
| 9 | The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important . |
| 10 | I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme . |
| 11 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a chance to understand why women are not making it up the professional or corporate ladder , ’ Ms Gompels added , ‘ which does seem to be a waste of such a valuable resource . ’ |