Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The face was grinning , cheekless , with an eye hanging on to bare bone , glistening raw meat where great tooth marks showed clearly it had been half eaten . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 6 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 7 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 8 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 9 | International : Cotton republic is hanging on by slim thread |
| 10 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 11 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 12 | Also , if the wheel brake is of the type that is applied automatically with full airbrake , remember that you should avoid touching down with full airbrake . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This allows the machine-chisel to shuffle back and forth , stepping down to full depth . |
| 15 | In a board reorganisation , Sir Brian is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 16 | MAURICE SAATCHI , who with his brother Charles created Saatchi & Saatchi , the world 's biggest advertising group , is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 17 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 18 | Daryl Foster is stepping down as Western Australia 's coach after 17 seasons . |
| 19 | By 1980 the operation was clearly prospering , bringing in on average £2500 per week in the second half of the year . |
| 20 | The female octopus lays her eggs in a hole or small cave sometimes attached to the roof of the lair , hanging down like tiny wax candles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | JOHN Major keeps banging on about open government . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The rain was driving down with great force , swamping the dry ground , and within moments her hair was plastered flat against her cheeks . |
| 27 | Implementation is for planning and installing hardware and software , producing documentation and training , a handover to new systems and winding down of old systems . |
| 28 | And apply it to say driving along at steady speeds , then you can work a lot of it out for yourself . |
| 29 | You have to be in control on the roads , and you ca n't do that ambling along with loose reins . |
| 30 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |