Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set in Alaska , it stars the Canadian folk-singer k. d. lang as Kotz , an orphaned Eskimo of ambiguous sexual identity and brooding potential violence , who latches on to Roswitha ( Rosel Zech ) , a middle-aged German emigree librarian still hanging on to memories of lost happiness like the jars of preserved berries she keeps in her bedroom . |
| 2 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 3 | One other Sunday paper died in the 1960s , after struggling on with subsidies from the Cooperative movement . |
| 4 | Sherrin recalled the actor occasionally phoning in with ideas for the monologues , but Crawford 's desire to deliver a eulogy to Sir Winston Churchill after the wartime Prime Minister 's funeral met with a cold response from his producer . |
| 5 | Watching these changes about him , and seeing the leaves of the trees behind the cages turn rusty brown and then come tumbling down on gusts of wind , Creggan grew restless and ill at ease . |
| 6 | The Green Party is pitching in with policies on Rubbish recycling and transport . |
| 7 | But if you do n't want your six-year-old trilling along with songs about bondage , a safer alternative is Kylie 's Greatest Hits ( PWL ) featuring 22 splendidly simple singalong tunes . |
| 8 | ‘ He quite enjoys singing along to records at parties , except when one of mine is played ! |
| 9 | But what about the little boy that was walking along with bottles of milk and to trying not spill any . |
| 10 | Living on the Continent and checking in with friends in Milan and Stuttgart , the English vision of Europe about to collapse into Weimar-style chaos is pure nonsense . |
| 11 | I was less impressed by a news story in the Sunday Times announcing that the Pope is cracking down on sinners for Easter week : ‘ The Pope has ordered priests in the confessional box to clamp down on sin as churches prepare for the traditional Easter rush of sinners seeking forgiveness this week , ’ it announced knowingly . |
| 12 | Expect good figures on Wednesday from hotel and brewing group Bass , booking in for profits at around £530m , up 23%. , helped by better news on the hotel front . |
| 13 | A general opening up of economies to multilateral trade . |
| 14 | They said something like that , they seemed fairly relaxed erm now what numbering is is this one that there would be any value opening up to others for the whole thing |
| 15 | Lash and Urry ( 1987 ) , for instance , write of the break-up of ‘ organized capitalism ’ and the development of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ , in the variable responses of the United States and some of the West European nations to the end of the post-war boom ; Piore and Sabel ( 1984 ) write of a ‘ second industrial divide ’ opening up in societies as a result of the development of flexible manufacturing systems . |
| 16 | But it was Dr George Tolley , director of the MSC 's Open Tech Unit , whatever that is , who was having a go about professional people not keeping up with developments in their professions . |
| 17 | Not only had Bohr explained Balmer 's mysterious formula ( and other later formulae for lines corresponding to ending up in orbits with unc but he had also enabled the value of the Rydberg constant A to be calculated in terms of the known quantities m , e , c and h . |
| 18 | Stuart had been more aware of their existence this year , walking up to lectures at the university , going through the Grassmarket or the gardens , seeing drab figures squatting on the stone steps , or standing outside the hotel in the evening by the vents from the kitchen where the steam formed vapour clouds and it was possible to inhale the smell of food with the intensity of a drug . |
| 19 | Social phenomena have a disconcerting habit of climbing up to positions of eminence from which they conveniently repudiate their humble origins ; we must not be misled by this . |
| 20 | Abuse of Market Power — Consultative Document on Possible Legislative Options , considers practices such as companies ' refusal to supply or the driving out of competitors through loss-making pricing , to be anti-competitive . |
| 21 | Make better use of your base cabinets by fixing slide-out towel racks to the doors , and by installing swivel storage shelves to do away with all that groping around for things at the back . |
| 22 | The early canals were contour canals , winding about for miles in order to circumvent a hill ; but the later ones were made as straight as possible by means of cuttings and embankments . |
| 23 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 24 | ‘ People may think there 's something sardonic about Leeds United fans walking round with words like ‘ peace ’ and ‘ love ’ on their backs , ’ says T-shirt designer Moose , ‘ It might not solve football 's hooligan problem , but at least they look a lot better than wax-coats and ski-hats . |
| 25 | The phase-locked-loop circuit therefore must be capable of operating down to frequencies below f1 . |
| 26 | Other animals exploit the carrying power of low frequencies , listening in to sounds below our range of hearing , called infrasound . |
| 27 | Then , at precisely 03.10 , there gushed up , as Gibbs recorded , ‘ enormous volumes of scarlet flame from the exploding mines and of earth and smoke , all lighted by the flame , spilling over into fountains of fierce colour , so that all the countryside was illuminated by red light . |
| 28 | Jane had never seen him so depressed , his anger frequently spilling over into words to her , as the dwellings went up with hideous and indecent haste , flaunting a flag : ‘ Waterloo Homes ’ right next to his drive . |
| 29 | The gamekeepers on Fedorov 's estate are always pooping off with shotguns at something or other : crows , vermin , poachers — whatever gamekeepers shoot . ’ |
| 30 | Business is also picking up in showrooms outside the capital , with cautious optimism for a boom year in 1993 . |