Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all goin' along to see the relief officer , ’ he soothed her . |
| 2 | A black suit was stepping in to take the bodies away . |
| 3 | Trading down helped the firm grab business from smaller operators and more than made up for falling sales of its classier Gainsborough furniture in the six months to end September . |
| 4 | So tearing off to find the sparrow . |
| 5 | Although Mr Crozier admitted his department was still gearing up to implement the legislation , he confirmed that once all the stall were fully trained they would begin prosecuting offenders . |
| 6 | A new wave of black British talent is now threatening to do the same — breaking out of a burgeoning club circuit and gearing up to colonise the nation 's TV sets |
| 7 | The response showed a significant shift , with more people ending up opposing the death penalty , even for the specific offence of terrorist murder . |
| 8 | Kitty , it turned out , had no head for figures and , worse , fell for every sob story she was told , often ending up giving the food away . |
| 9 | At least we were earning some money , and they were ending up owing the company money I think . |
| 10 | We went round to Rum Cove , the nearest landing place for Ben Gunn 's cave of treasure , then Gray left us there before rowing back to guard the ship for the night . |
| 11 | He pulled down , twisting around to follow the line attached to his belt . |
| 12 | The dealers , exporters and wholesalers walking round inspecting the produce , discussing prices , negotiating ; the hangers-on standing about in groups smoking , chatting ; the market police and official inspectors strolling round seeing that all is in order . |
| 13 | Looking down corrected the illusion , so instead he applied his mind to the business in hand . |
| 14 | ‘ Sir , ’ he replied , wandering off to find the alarm controls . |
| 15 | Now 26 police forces from the midlands and the south are teaming up to counter the menace such gatherings cause to landowners and the general public . |
| 16 | Even topping up to replace the water lost by evaporation is taken care of automatically . |
| 17 | Everybody danced with anybody and as almost every other building was a public house , there was plenty of material spilling out to keep the action going . |
| 18 | Kimberley and Killion were still with him , he observed , but fanning out to distract the gunners . |
| 19 | ‘ We could have come round and had a chat instead of having every foot patrol and Panda car in the bloody Met wandering around checking the numbers on every pigging black cab in town . |
| 20 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 21 | A wide-ranging review ( dread words ) is now going on to resolve the conflicts . |
| 22 | George Smith , aided and abetted by Martin Crook , unearthed Big-Fin-Reef-Squid E5 6b on the left of Hyll Drem itself before going on to tackle the fins of rock between Primus and Burner , resulting in Of All the Bars in All the World , E6 6b ; apparently every other move involves a knee-bar , but probably only if you 're as tall as George — the rest of us should merely levitate . |
| 23 | Before going on to analyse the kinds of blocking technique one might nevertheless use , I want to briefly explain what I mean by the terms ‘ open ’ and ‘ closed ’ sides when referring to a stance . |
| 24 | Since the questions of apprenticeship and pay lie at the heart of the problem , we should first examine the surviving evidence to discover how long an apprenticeship women actually served , and how much they were paid , before going on to analyse the re-organization of the work process . |
| 25 | We 've got a group of journalists , twelve journalists , from Dubai in Bath today and erm some , a wave of journalists coming in from Saudi a little later in the month , so everything 's happening and there 's a erm tremendous amount of activity going on to restimulate the market . |
| 26 | These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about . |
| 27 | Dmitri had beaten Prean in the semi-finals of the Austrian Open on Sunday before going on to take the title . |
| 28 | So before going on to explain the origins of the London-based research , I shall give some background to the language situation in the Caribbean . |
| 29 | By going on loading the crystal in shear we can repeat the process indefinitely and eventually squeeze the dislocation out of the far side of the crystal ( Figure 5c ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Commerce , not liberty , is the motive ’ , said The Times , going on to call the Bill , which became the 1984 Act , meagre and minimalist . |