Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as bringing on the new foal , Margaret has taken on another exciting challenge . |
| 2 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 3 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 4 | The officer 's optional dark blue cape , with a black velvet collar , and a black cord fastening , seen here hanging on the left breast . |
| 5 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 6 | So this was done , and on the very next day fine grapes were found hanging on the youngest brother 's vine . |
| 7 | He was responding to Monday 's claim in the Belfast Irish News that at least three dozen officers were members of a secret ‘ inner circle ’ which had the objects of ‘ removing ’ republican suspects and bringing down the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 8 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 9 | Heseltine faced the tactical dilemma that were he to campaign openly and be seen to be instrumental in splitting the party and bringing down the Prime Minister , he would be criticised as divisive and disloyal . |
| 10 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 11 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 12 | In 51 minutes Ian Ferguson crashed in a fierce 20 yarder which flew wide and Rangers missed a great chance to go ahead when Murdoch saved a Hateley penalty kick , after the keeper had been penalised for bringing down the big attacker . |
| 13 | An elderly Indian woman in a sari is closing up and bringing down the grated gate . |
| 14 | Thus began the pattern of alternating concession and repression which marked the Indian path to independence , the British constantly frustrated by their inability to rise permanently above the use of force , the nationalists , with the notable exception of Gandhi , seeing only the adroit employment of the carrot and the stick . |
| 15 | Unsurprisingly , he left after completing only the one film , and his position was taken over by his erstwhile colleague , Victor Saville . |
| 16 | The rising sun , lancing down the Sambre valley , dazzled Sharpe . |
| 17 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 18 | The first is that it increasingly appears that LTP-like phenomena are not restricted to the hippocampus , but can under appropriate circumstances be shown in many other regions of the brain , including especially the cerebral cortex as Lynn Bindman in London , and Lyosha Voronin , in Moscow , have shown . |
| 19 | Dalgliesh raised it with careful fingers touching only the extreme edge of the cloth and saw underneath a smudge of blood on the carpet about two centimetres long and thicker at the right end than at the left . |
| 20 | Documents containing both text and simple graphics can be created using much the same equipment except that a graphics screen will now be essential in order to see the charts and graphs . |
| 21 | Women were even more mobile , reflecting perhaps the large proportion who at some time of their life entered service and married extra-parochial partners . |
| 22 | He leaned against the stable , sucking in the cool night air like a man surfacing from a deep river . |
| 23 | Each critic and each interview discovered and reported the uncanny fact of what had happened in the production of the film , that it was one of those once-in-a-generation happenings , bringing together the right story , the right people and the right tone at exactly the right time . |
| 24 | By bringing together the academic faculty , researchers and practising managers the College has created a research community capable of undertaking well-founded and practical research . |
| 25 | By bringing together the academic faculty , researchers and practising managers the College has created an international research community capable of undertaking well founded and practical research . |
| 26 | Like many others in education , he would like to see a structure that meets the needs of all 16-to 19-year-olds by bringing together the academic A-level syllabuses , with all the various vocational courses , into a common system . |
| 27 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
| 28 | The ward sister co-ordinates all these functions , ensuring the ward has adequate supplies and drawing together the particular team members required to help an individual patient . |
| 29 | However we make sure that they are manufactured to the latest BSI standards using only the best quality materials . |
| 30 | In Alderney he finally and grudgingly got to work on his autobiography , Basingstoke Boy , using only the third person . |