Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a small mirror hanging on the door in which she combed her hair ; a woman liked to look her best even at work . |
| 2 | Suddenly the memory of the négligé hanging on the door in Luke 's house and Elise 's painting in the corridor outside his room struck a chill . |
| 3 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 4 | Adrian Gozzard , ex-Plessey , also expressed a preference for consultants who took responsibility for all parts of the search , bringing in the business in the first place and the , closely supervising the research . |
| 5 | I do n't want 'em mowing down the tents in the dark . ’ |
| 6 | A local builder obliged by knocking down the remains in exchange for the materials he could salvage , and the place had been known as the Half House by local people ever since . |
| 7 | Discs advance on alarming quantities of Austrian ice cream , back home Madness are dusting away the cobwebs in Finsbury Park . |
| 8 | Have you considered the harm you may be causing to people , tearing up the past in this way ? |
| 9 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 10 | He was walking just ahead of her now , checking out the trail in the darkness . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not interested in you sexually , ’ he remarked , spacing out the words in his deliberate way . |
| 12 | ‘ No , ’ said Harry , already in his mind scrambling down the rocks in the dark to Severnside . |
| 13 | However things turn out , try to reflect the mood of the scene by the pace of the cutting of your shots : if the children are quiet and thoughtful , the shots can be held a little longer than if they are lively and excited ( provided that the adult does a good job of filling in the gaps in the action ) . |
| 14 | A multi-form index facility is provided to allow the expert user to move quickly between fields , filling in the data in the desired order . |
| 15 | Thousands of you have kindly let us know much more about yourselves by filling in the questionnaire in our November issue . |
| 16 | Auguste 's eyes misted at the sound and sight of the lovely Araminta , Multhrop 's eighteen-year-old daughter , rustling down the staircase in a delightful froufrou of petticoats , her large blue eyes fixed on her father , but well aware of every male in sight . |
| 17 | Certainly the education system encourages them to , by valuing only the Standard in most territories . |
| 18 | Fewer birds are involved than in spring , but up to 75 have been seen passing down the Channel in a day , and once 200 ( 19 November 1972 , Selsey Bill ) . |
| 19 | One day when the King was passing down the Thames in his barge , Cranmer , hearing the royal music , came out on Lambeth Bridge to greet him . |
| 20 | Digital Communications Associates Inc has reported a third quarter net loss of $66.6m after a pre-tax charge of $59.9m from writing off the goodwill in its Pacific Data Products unit and $3.2m from the costs of reorganising that company , and $3.2m from settlement of a class action lawsuit , and a tax credit of $583,000 , against a profit last time of $6.0m on turnover that rose 8.9% at $55.7m ; net loss for the nine months was $58.0m against profit last time of $13.3m on turnover up 9.0% at $104.4m . |
| 21 | If you work for a company which insists that you drive a particular brand of car , resign , first writing off the car in an accident in which two teenage hookers and a hallucinating macaw reach a rather untimely end . |
| 22 | Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten , twenty or thirty years . |
| 23 | 27 constituent bodies are taking the to the roads with their Roadshows , each sponsored by nationally known organisations and with the RFU itself picking up the tab in Leicestershire , Northumberland and Somerset . |
| 24 | You ca n't have Romeo swarming up the balcony in doublet , hose and hearing aid . |
| 25 | PUSHING UP THE DAFFODILS IN BRAZIL |
| 26 | I WAS impressed by Billy McKenna 's powerful article , ‘ Pushing up the daffodils in Brazil ’ and horrified — even as an Amnesty International member of some years ' standing — to read of the brutality meted out to Antonio Gilvan da Cruz and others . |
| 27 | ON 28 November 1990 , Antonio Gilvan da Cruz , a member of the Truka community , was seized at his home by about eight armed men in civilian clothes ( see AMNESTY June/July , ‘ Pushing up the daffodils in Brazil ’ , pp18–19 ) . |
| 28 | At the height of the summer season there can be up to 42,000 people soaking up the sun in Benidorm , so the litter problem can be awesome . |
| 29 | LIE BACK AND THINK OF … well , certainly not England when you 're soaking up the sun in St Tropez . |
| 30 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |