Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 2 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 3 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 4 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 5 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 6 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 7 | It was coloured in cement and grey , its slate roof dull with moss , great jagged lengths of cornice hanging down like broken fingers from its brow . |
| 8 | I mean , what would you do if you were a lawyer and a boy came in and started yapping on about missing Wills like in some kid 's story ? |
| 9 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 10 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 11 | Implementation is for planning and installing hardware and software , producing documentation and training , a handover to new systems and winding down of old systems . |
| 12 | And apply it to say driving along at steady speeds , then you can work a lot of it out for yourself . |
| 13 | You have to be in control on the roads , and you ca n't do that ambling along with loose reins . |
| 14 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 15 | The room will be furnished with tatami ( mats ) for walking over in bare feet or socks/tights and seating is on zabuton ( large cushions ) . |
| 16 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 17 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 18 | The book highlights the problem university staff have in keeping up with recent developments . |
| 19 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 20 | That she had n't been sleeping properly , finding herself tossing and turning , ending up with twisted sheets and pulverised pillows ? |
| 21 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 22 | This proved extremely successful and after several open days farmers began signing up in increasing numbers . |
| 23 | V Winding up of unregistered companies |
| 24 | He also referred to section 229(2) in the group of sections concerned with the winding up of unregistered companies . |
| 25 | In Hamble village , their first precious spare hours were spent not in the pubs but in the Tesco 's supermarket watching shoppers walking up to overburdened shelves and putting all manner of goods in their baskets . ’ |
| 26 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 27 | The importance of behaviour matching up to assertive messages can not be over-emphasised . |
| 28 | The unknown is always the most fearsome , opening out into wide areas of conjecture . |
| 29 | If the bank mortgage form does not set out the precise amount of the home loan and the terms under which it is to be repaid , then it is important to ensure that the client receives a letter from the bank manager spelling out in precise terms the nature of the loan , the interest rate applicable to it and the regularity of the instalment payments . |
| 30 | Mr Vernon added that , as though to celebrate the anniversary , the fund raisers had turned in record figures yet again , singling out for special thanks the branches and guilds new record of over £10m . |