Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

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1 Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents .
2 They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car .
3 That means keeping them out of the unpredictable British May weather .
4 Watford full-back Jason Drysdale aims to hit the champions with the final instalment of a miserable treble by knocking them out of the Coca-Cola Cup at Vicarage Road .
5 Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team .
6 It had ended with Tony manhandling her out of the house .
7 I say that because all the engines of recovery seem incapable of driving us out of the recession .
8 Pushing them out of the way , she hastened to the bed .
9 And grabbing three of the smallest around their necks , he started pushing them out of the back door , into the fresh air , and towards the outer door of the boarding section .
10 ‘ Never mind what kind , ’ said Gurder , pushing him out of the way .
11 Duvall was suddenly standing on the step above him , pushing him out of the way and stepping down past him .
12 The Englishman sensed that the big personal build-up was a blind to hide Muldoon 's real reason for wanting him out of the country .
13 A whole exciting new scene was being born all about her and pushing her out of the way .
14 Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you .
15 Unless , ’ he added with unpleasant irony , ‘ anyone has any other ideas for picking it out of the shit … ’ ,
16 Ace tried to thrust a ghostly neural net crystal underneath the Doctor 's nose and only succeeded in pushing it out of the image field .
17 We are not forcing them out of the NHS ; they will remain in the NHS , and the services will remain free at the point of delivery .
18 You could n't keep bulls for long or the strain in your herd would have been weakened by in-breeding , so there was a regular turnover , and quite often farms would loan out their bulls around the Dales before selling them out of the area .
19 He took her arm , almost lifting her from her seat , leading her out of the kitchen with no further words .
20 Someone uncoupled that car at Cartier and rigged some way of pulling it out of the station into the darkness before releasing it .
21 ‘ We can try shaming them out of the drugs business and say how un-Islamic it is ’ suggested Abdul Haq .
22 ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom .
23 Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction .
24 And how very understated and very British , with every man of its crew trying not to show how pleased he was or how embarrassed , and quietly thanking the good Lord for getting them out of the mess in the Bay , and if He would n't mind , could some other perishing submarine have the next thirty-eight ?
25 The car allowance , a key item in reporters ' lives and in getting them out of the office — was fixed at Option B — 15p a mile .
26 I also pay tribute to the professionalism of the emergency services , who naturally faced difficulties in getting to the injured and in getting them out of the tunnel for treatment .
27 Interviewed in the trade union newspaper Trud , Pavlov claimed that ( unnamed ) banks in Switzerland , Austria and Canada had co-operated with non-governmental Soviet organizations to buy large-denomination rouble notes in massive quantities on the black market , and had been smuggling them out of the country .
28 I remember paramedics getting her out of the car , but I could not get out of my seat because my legs were trapped under the dashboard .
29 But by the second day of the adventure , her escort was having trouble getting her out of the pool .
30 Getting her out of the office was a constant headache .
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