Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 2 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 3 | Daily inspections of the tank will indicate a few fry hanging on the tank sides and others hiding in the mops . |
| 4 | The printed book is then inserted into the case by machinery and attached to the boards by gluing down the mull overlaps , after which the endpapers are pasted down to hide them . |
| 5 | In particular the set of expression values is likely to be much restricted ( perhaps allowing only the Boolean values 0 and 1 ) . |
| 6 | Borland International Inc and WordPerfect Corp are getting together to challenge the Microsoft Corp Microsoft Office with a bundle of their own , bringing together the Windows versions of the Wordperfect word processor , Paradox database and Quattro spreadsheet and offering it as Borland Office at a bargain basement $600 or less . |
| 7 | They 've started recently , they d they did n't do it for years , we had n't been training anybody and that was unusual because when it was the big factory you were always bringing in the school leavers |
| 8 | ‘ Give it back you thief , ’ he bawls after me , but I spurt ahead , knocking over a coupla kids who start bawling and bellyaching as well , but I do n't stop to investigate , because after all , I 'm doing them a favour , the sooner they learn that life is full of hard knocks the better . |
| 9 | While in social terms this objective may be desirable , opening up the investment aids to reach an even wider range of farms could seriously exacerbate the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the LFAs as more pastures and hay meadows are converted to grass leys , roughland improved agriculturally and wetlands drained although the reduction in drainage grants and the abolition of grants for land cultivation in December 1984 makes such an extension to smaller farms rather academic . |
| 10 | He explained that in 1886 he was making enquiries about the possibilities of opening up the canal routes to the south and was put in touch with a syndicate in London which was proposing to improve and develop these navigations . |
| 11 | Wonderful ! — like tearing up the ration books . |
| 12 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 13 | Consider for example : ( 20 ) A : Let's get the kids something B : Okay , but I veto I-C-E C-R-E-A-M-S where B ostentatiously infringes the maxim of Manner ( be perspicuous ) by spelling out the word ice-creams , and thereby conveys to A that B would rather not have ice-cream mentioned directly in the presence of the children , in case they are thereby prompted to demand some . |
| 14 | These are accompanied by handsome systems of mouldings and mosaics spelling out the station names . |
| 15 | One of the things I will be doing is going round is just checking out the learning goals . |
| 16 | If you 're checking out the bulletin boards for Scan , check the availability if a program called Update , which automates the installation of McAfee programs . |
| 17 | She rose and walked through corridors , noticing how the stone walls seeped moisture . |
| 18 | Southsea was the main attraction but Latimer Road contributed to drawing away the London skaters . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , Mum , ’ she said , stumbling down the cellar steps and falling to her knees beside her mother . |
| 20 | Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar . |
| 21 | I vaguely recall writing down the codes months ago and losing whatever it was I wrote them on . |
| 22 | He mentions the climate , but without filling in the summer smells of this novel , or the fog and white nights and wet snow of others . |
| 23 | City analysts UBS-Philips and Drew suggested in a report released in August 1989 that the cost of meeting just the lead levels in the Directive would be £2,500 million . |
| 24 | She sighed and , pushing aside the canopy curtains , got out of the bed and shrugged on a green muslin bathrobe . |
| 25 | The story was splashed over the front page , elbowing aside the arms talks and the council scandal . |
| 26 | The memory of lightning flaring between the cracks in the boards and me pushing home the four-inch nails with numb fingers arrived simultaneous with the patter of descending footsteps … |
| 27 | Other insects hear through clumps of hairs or special antennae which work by detecting the movement of the vibrating air molecules instead of picking up the pressure waves of sound . |
| 28 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 29 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 30 | That means looking up the tide tables to see the times of high and low water and the tidal stream list to find the maximum rates . |