Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation .
2 The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation .
3 The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation .
4 Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties .
5 WORLD 500cc motorcycle champion Wayne Rainey is critical in hospital after crashing badly in the Italian Grand Prix at Misano .
6 He must have taken the bucket outside but when he returned Robyn was still struggling furiously with the unfamiliar catch .
7 But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books .
8 While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now .
9 The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice .
10 As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us .
11 She paced up and down ; she went backwards and forwards to the windows , stepping on to the little balcony where they sat together in the afternoon sun , peering down the street .
12 He was suddenly seeing right into the crystalline spaces of the famous poem .
13 There follows the usual discussion on oppressed-minority self-detecting radar — Jewish , lesbian or otherwise — and some sniffing delicately around the problematical area of Israel , policies of and attitudes toward : Then Clint refers back to the books .
14 She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it .
15 Then hoofbeats pounded to Sharpe 's left and he saw another French officer galloping furiously down the high road .
16 However , although Professor Plumb suggests the participation of " better-off " tradesmen he clearly sees the leisure industry as catering mostly for the expanding and increasingly prosperous middle class .
17 But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals .
18 Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority .
19 A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight .
20 Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet .
21 THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate .
22 Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate .
23 I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties .
24 There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well .
25 At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought .
26 Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers .
27 Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in .
28 Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker .
29 It should have calmed her , gazing down at the burbling river , should have helped her to think about the problem uppermost in her mind ; but it was impossible to concentrate , knowing that he was close by .
30 He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long .
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