Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times ! |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he said , ‘ you 're reacting in just the way she wants ? ’ |
| 3 | By appearing in only the Sunday episode of Not So Much a Programme , Crawford had been able to continue with other work , which included a run of The Striplings on stage at the New Arts Theatre Club , in London . |
| 4 | Then he visits La Famiglia before driving back up the King 's Road and on to the Caprice . |
| 5 | Then I started walking back up the field . |
| 6 | Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door . |
| 7 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 8 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 9 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 10 | Examination of sentencing in either the magistrates ' courts or the Crown Court on their own may also be misleading . |
| 11 | But on the other hand , in doing this he is in danger of passing over altogether the notion of social ‘ repression ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , the 'andle spun round an' sent 'im flyin' up ter the ceilin' . |
| 13 | The Americans have invaded , and are rounding up both the rebels and governmental forces . ’ |
| 14 | In one of these movements , the duet and chorus ‘ Hymen , appear ! ’ towards the end of Act 5 , he began by writing out only the chorus soprano part and the two solo soprano parts that alternate with the chorus . |
| 15 | When baking a cake , manufacturers of cake-mixes were told , women were acting out symbolically the birth of a child ( not for nothing was the vulgar phrase for pregnancy a ‘ bun in the oven ’ ) . |
| 16 | The Pope says that since God initially made us multiply , as is obvious from looking around even the famine fields of Ethiopia , we 'd better do as much of it as we can . |
| 17 | There was , I was gon na say there was a hell of a fight going on here the morning we come over yours between Christopher and Andrew , and I went in to sort out just in time to hear Christopher say well I 'm having all GrandPat 's money when he 's dead not you . |
| 18 | Erm basically leading down there the products and corporate strategy there they 're having difficulty identifying what their product range . |
| 19 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 20 | Delaney tore himself away , going back up the stairway that was the only way out , and back in the direction that the creature was coming . |
| 21 | You might want to describe some of these things : how your brother got into trouble whether you thought it was fair what you think of the school , generally what you think of the teachers how your brother refused to raise his arm how you intervened how you felt about speaking up how the incident ended what happened on the way home that night . |
| 22 | A ‘ clow ’ was a flap-valve to stop flood-water rising back up the ditches at high tide . |
| 23 | Several letters have been received from the Institute pointing out how the cost of hiring important speakers would substantially be using their income . |
| 24 | If there are , say which they are instead of pointing out only the faults . |
| 25 | Because there 's never any point in rooting out just the workers and leaving the management free . |
| 26 | I see Scribners is bringing out both the novels , and has a sizeable publicity campaign on the stocks . |
| 27 | I mean being on my own , travelling down here the way that I did . |
| 28 | Few of them flying about coming along just the line of the hydro wire at the hydro wire and just saw a blue flash and get down . |
| 29 | A walk-around reveals some of the unusual features of the basic design , like the fullspan ailerons , trailing link undercarriage , differential rudders ( the outgoing one travelling through twice the angle of its ingoing twin ) , and the elevator with its central cut-out and restricted movement . |
| 30 | She met Bill coming back up the steps , and they did not waste time on speech . |