Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] of " 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 | ‘ Being left hanging on without explanation of what 's happening ’ , that 's your frustration . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If she pulled they would come crashing down on top of her , said Mr Wakerley . |
| 6 | After his Mirror Group Newspapers is floated in April , Robert Maxwell is stepping down as chairman of Maxwell Communication Corporation , and making his son Kevin chief executive . |
| 7 | It was announced on Sept. 19 that a senior Exco member , Dame Lydia Dunn , was stepping down as head of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and would be succeeded on Oct. 1 by Victor K. Fung , chairman and chief executive officer of Prudential Asia Investments Ltd. |
| 8 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 9 | Andrew is used to being the centre of attention , especially after last summer when he did the unthinkable by stepping down as captain of Camborne to join Redruth , their neighbours and rivals — Cornish rugby 's equivalent of a footballer leaving Manchester United for City . |
| 10 | The base is winding down as part of the defence cuts . |
| 11 | But what about the little boy that was walking along with bottles of milk and to trying not spill any . |
| 12 | Mr Szuluc says his parents are pensioners who ca n't afford to clothe him , so in frustration he decided to stage a protest at his local DSS office in Stroud , stripping off in front of the other bemused claimants , and handing his borrowed clothes back to his brother . |
| 13 | The tumour had recurred and he had four previous operations , ending up with anastomosis of duodenum to mid-transverse colon . |
| 14 | He spent 18 years working for Ford , ending up as manager of its Dearborn assembly plant . |
| 15 | No I , I do n't have time , it really does mean signing up for sort of long |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is one thing climbing up a steep and slippery slope with no weight on your back , and altogether a different thing climbing up with 40kg of camera equipment . |
| 18 | Here Mr Malik stepped back with a flourish , and Robert found he was walking out in front of the whole school , his heart thumping , his mind a complete blank . |
| 19 | So if you are lucky you have a person who was not at all interested in what was happening out in front of the group of children miming and doing the actions to a song they may well not have known before . |
| 20 | Groups of young people are crowding round in front of the soldiers chanting ‘ The army is with us ’ and ‘ No violence ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Jimmy Tarbuck is rabbiting on in front of the tabs , the dancers are in position , stretching their limbs and adjusting their costumes , bathed in the blue of first lighting condition . |
| 22 | Then , without previous movement or sound , only with a sudden gush of closed and graveyard air , the rotten surface above buckled and dimpled , lolling in sagging bubbles of turf , and sending its under-levels of soil cascading down on top of the ancient arc of bricks that upheld it . |
| 23 | Army workers living in in fear of the bombers |
| 24 | As I entered through an archway into the cobbled farmyard the shelling had increased , most of the shells passing over in support of the attack party going in just along the road . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was assisted by the government Guaranteed Loan Scheme , which supported High Street banks in lending money to family businesses by guaranteeing up to 80% of the banks ' risk . |
| 27 | The scrap of paper was furiously filling up with pictures of trees and flowers , which Alyssia hardly looked at at all . |
| 28 | The system I would like to see is solicitors being given the job of approving up to £500 of legal aid work , with spot checks on quality , taking off any who are found to have abused it . ’ |
| 29 | Chrysler has already announced that it is teaming up with Renault of France to build a $400m to $500m plant in Europe to produce the JJ - a four-wheel drive Jeep-type vehicle . |
| 30 | She dozed , open-eyed , looking up at slits of light . |