Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless this lamentable epitaph should not obscure the fact that at least in part he achieved his purpose of " bringing together the best in new thinking and new writing in its time 's " and that , as he confessed in an interview , editing it had been " one of the most important and rewarding " of all his activities . |
| 2 | ( Grimmitt 1973 ) , which advocated the dimensional alongside the existential approach to RE , advised intermingling the experiential , mythological and ritual dimensions and focusing on them in the primary school , adding the social and ethical together for lower Secondary , and finally bringing in the doctrinal with the upper forms of Secondary schools , as this dimension is the most difficult to cope with ( pp. 50 , 92f ) . |
| 3 | Greg Norman , the man who started winning like mad after tossing away The Open at Royal Troon , makes me feel a total failure . |
| 4 | As soon as she closed her eyes a dark , austerely handsome face filled her mind , crowding out the last of her lingering fright , and when she eventually managed to get back to sleep it was to dream of Michele Lorenzo once more . |
| 5 | Or coming to consciousness in the coffin , tons of silent earth pressing down , his own lungs sucking away the last of the air . |
| 6 | But she ultimately reached the Rante and was lifted up the death-house steps looking little the worse for wear and , if anything , pinker with health . |
| 7 | ‘ You look quite strong , ’ she said , picking up the largest of the suitcases and dragging it up the stairs . |
| 8 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 9 | . I 'm going up the fair on er Saturday . |
| 10 | ‘ M'm-h 'm , ’ I said , cleaning up the last of the stew . |
| 11 | It 's hard work pumping up the inflatable with a foot pump , so why not use someone 's drysuit inflator instead ? |
| 12 | Whichever way you go , you 'll come across bar after bar all turning out the latest in pop videos and the odd cocktail or two ! |
| 13 | And , using all his force , he ran and crashed into the second assassin , who was winching back the arbalest for another bolt . |
| 14 | She could n't help wondering how the two of them looked . |
| 15 | Gathering up the last of the cuttings , she locked them in her briefcase , then looked round , too restless and on edge to relax . |
| 16 | The main problem about this option is the logistic one of getting together the hundreds of different catalogues ( especially those of the small publishers ) necessary to ensure comprehensiveness . |
| 17 | Your old ships , my lord King , were already engaged with the ships of Earl Siward and getting much the best of it . |
| 18 | By choosing home grown potatoes the housewife knows she is buying only the best for her family . |
| 19 | If the taxpayer is providing the infrastructure for roads , which includes the track , maintainance and regulation ( = signalling ) , then it seems only reasonable that we should be providing exactly the same for rail — and allowing operators to run trains just as coach operators run buses . |
| 20 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 21 | Accompanying the arrival of peace were the problems of reorganising the economies , and the gigantic task of sorting out the millions of refugees and displaced persons scattered throughout Europe . |
| 22 | It is hardly reasonable to expect the children to concentrate on sharing out the last of their emergency rations if the dinner ladies are putting out tables for lunch . |
| 23 | I suppose I lost track of time too , ’ Belinda explained lamely , too consumed with riding out the worst of the tingling as feeling returned to her leg . |
| 24 | Posi 's voice sounded weary , like a parent pointing out the obvious to troublesome children . |
| 25 | Samsung Software America is bringing out the first of its anticipated shrinkwrapped Unix office automation products : Replix , a full-featured networked client/server Fax management application targeted at mission-critical environments in medium to large organisations . |
| 26 | ‘ Well — there 's nothing like adversity — ‘ sweet are the uses of adversity ’ ’ — for bringing out the best in you . |
| 27 | Miller has always been expert at bringing out the best in players — he turned Frank McAvennie from a midfield player into a striker in his St Mirren days — and the evolution of Pat McGinlay as a goalscoring midfield player is merely the latest example of his handiwork . |
| 28 | The oddly named My Father 's Vertigo , a near narrative piece bringing out the best in LCDT , set the programme on its right tracks and proved that dance can contain wit . |
| 29 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |
| 30 | The Japanese ‘ no name ’ department store Muji , meanwhile , is fooling only the stupid with its supposed anti-label ethos . |