Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 2 | Slowly pull the barbell upwards , keeping it close to the stomach and chest until it is just underneath the chin and the elbows are pointing upwards . |
| 3 | Slowly raise the dumb-bell vertically as high as possible without jerking or rocking , keeping it close to the body . |
| 4 | One-arm dumb-bell rowing — slowly raise the dumb-bell without jerking or rocking , keeping it close to the body |
| 5 | She shut her eyes and turned the ignition key , pressing it slightly to the left . |
| 6 | Make the mix fairly dry and press it well down into the joints , filling them right to the top and finishing them flush . |
| 7 | A telephone call alerting them briefly to the problem followed up by a letter is usually the most effective approach . |
| 8 | ‘ Here , ’ said Meryl , passing it across to the woman squatting beside her . |
| 9 | Magda ze Schluderpacheru was unslinging a rocket-launcher from under the bar , and passing it across to the Maniax . |
| 10 | The wrong turns provide additional boundaries and constraints as the exercise proceeds , leading him ultimately to the same goal . |
| 11 | Some of the same movements are repeated yet again in the final pas de deux , when the Prince raises her high above the glistening Stars before leading her away to the land where ‘ they lived happily ever after ’ , where all fairy tales should end . |
| 12 | Phoebe was still asleep beside her , curled up and with her back close to her daughter 's : Maggie enjoyed the moment of comfort , adding it dreamily to the shadow that was also there . |
| 13 | In presenting it direct to the kings of Benin they showed good understanding . |
| 14 | But he had her in his arms now , moulding her firmly to the length of his hard , muscular body . |
| 15 | But I do know that when times were bad , the people in the dale had to use the wool off the backs of the sheep themselves instead of sending it away to the wool merchants of Bradford after shearing . |
| 16 | The Fanatics are the real weapon , the Mob is just a means of deploying them close to the enemy lines . |
| 17 | When he woke up , he 'd be lying on the floor of the boozer , and Sergeant Lawrence would be lifting him to his feet , dragging him outside to the panda car . |
| 18 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 19 | Er simply in terms of the impact , there is a lot more work to be done on that and we would do that in t in developing the scheme and bringing it forward to the next stage , to mitigate the adverse effects er that come about as a result of er construction of new roads . |
| 20 | If temporarily fenced woodland was excluded from the calculation , the overall livestock stocking density on the farm would increase , bringing it closer to the overall stocking threshold above which HLCAs are not paid . |
| 21 | Alcatel Cable SA , Douvrin , France is increasing its optical fibre production to meet demand — when two new plants come on full stream in the middle of next year , annual output will grow to 930,000 miles from the 590,000 miles it did last year , bringing it close to the current number two , AT&T Co , but still way behind the 1.25m miles produced annually by Corning Inc . |
| 22 | A different allocation of resources might also have produced growth , but diverting them merely to the home market would have substituted only on the assumption that resources were already being fully utilised there . |
| 23 | But Rohan 's arm was like a steel band round her waist , half lifting her from her feet , and carrying her inexorably to the door . |
| 24 | One huge hand was already placed in the small of her back , pinning her helplessly to the desk : then she felt him wind a thick hank of her blonde hair around his other fist , and jerk her head back . |
| 25 | The mighty Great Eastern not only laid a new cable ; it succeeded in hauling up the earlier one splicing on a centre-piece , and lowering it again to the sea-bed . |
| 26 | A system of information storage and retrieval , making it easier to the user to maintain records . |
| 27 | He smiled sadly , then went across and took up the basin , carrying it across to the door . |
| 28 | Judith blended it over the lids and showed Helen how to give the illusion of larger eyes by outlining them close to the lashes with a dark pencil ( see Beauty News for recommendations ) . |
| 29 | The recent work by McAuslan and others ( supra ) in respect of the functioning of the Windscale Inquiry casts further doubt on the fairness of our current practice of leaving it solely to the legislature to determine the form and procedure to be adopted at such inquiries . |
| 30 | Functionally the nerve cells may be sensory ( afferent ) neurons , conveying impulses inwards from the sense organs ( p. 123 ff. ) , motor or efferent neurons , conveying them outwards to the effector organs , and association neurons ( interneurons ) that link the other two types . |