Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | While accepting wholeheartedly the value of this sort of study — the discipline that goes by the name of philology in English-speaking countries — Saussure argued that it gave only a partial account of linguistic phenomena . |
| 2 | Also hanging on the back of the door was the hot water-bottle that his Mum filled for him when he had tonsilitis . |
| 3 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 4 | Peering through the kitchen window she could see the remains of three breakfasts and her daughter 's new green coat hanging on the back of the kitchen door . |
| 5 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 6 | He found her new white Christmas-present nightdress hanging on the back of the dressing-room door , and heaved her into it , then opened the bed , and pushed her between the sheets . |
| 7 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 8 | Just to see his silk dressing-gown hanging on the back of the door or his watch lying on the edge of the basin , stirred an unfathomable excitement in her . |
| 9 | Wrapping herself in the pink kimono hanging on the back of the bedroom door , she went softly down the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 10 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 11 | ‘ At first I could not believe it , but when I saw it hanging on the wall of this house , I was flabbergasted , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Equally , he had a peasant cross , made of embroidered material , hanging on the wall of his bedroom there ; he had bought that in Bulawayo when there with a visiting company in 1953 . |
| 13 | It is a poor leader who does not know his opposite numbers , and while I do not go to the extent of General Montgomery in the desert with a picture of my primary competitors hanging on the wall of my office , I know them all , and have a healthy respect for them . |
| 14 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 15 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 16 | You start , as I said , with the claw weight hanging on the edge of the knitting . |
| 17 | She sees her wig and familiar clothing , dry now , still hanging on the backs of chairs to one side of a dead fire . |
| 18 | I saw a yellow rescue helicopter with this guy hanging on the end of a wire . |
| 19 | If you absolutely insist in giving all your information in the first answer , there 's no room for a further question , and the best kind of response is the one that leaves the next question sort of hanging on the end of it , so that the interviewer can come back with another question . |
| 20 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 21 | Mostly , they go round in circles , reflecting only the idiom of the day . |
| 22 | Frankly I think from our colleagues in the conservative party should n't really be wasting our time here with these silly motions , erm what 's needed is if you 're gon na improve the housing situation in the city and in the country as a whole , we need to be allowed to use our capital receipts , all the ones we 've piled up , and we need to also inject money into the national economy to build new homes and incidentally to get the economy moving again and start bringing down the level of unemployment . |
| 23 | Then , as the players came thundering down the boards , she joined the stampede , trying to steal the ball and nearly bringing down the pony of a fat child with pigtails , whose mother promptly started yelling at Daisy . |
| 24 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 25 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 26 | There was a sharp , hard impatience about him , and Cassie , wanting only what he wanted , seeing only the fulfilment of her hopes , and forgetting her earlier feelings of unease , was full of dreamy desire . |
| 27 | Seeing only the spray of Petion 's blood , Ace fired again and again , the shots punching continually into Richmann 's body and causing him to jerk like a marionette before toppling backwards into the steel door . |
| 28 | One building beneath the Cathedral apparently contained an apse with a floor of opus signinum , suggesting perhaps the site of a bath-house hypocaust since the floor was covered by a thick deposit of ash . |
| 29 | Something with a dull gleam flew from his hand , tumbling down the slope of the dune . |
| 30 | ‘ Discursive consciousness ’ , by contrast , refers to ‘ what actors are able to say , or to give verbal expression to , about social conditions , including especially the conditions of their own action ’ . |