Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater . |
| 2 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 3 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 4 | Based very loosely on the Pat Barker novel Union Street — so loosely in fact that the Robert De Niro character Stanley does n't exist in the original — Stanley and Iris manages for most of its length to say a great deal about struggling along just above the poverty line . |
| 5 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |
| 7 | He speaks English in a curious way , that improbable Dutch-accent tongue slapping down hard on the vowels , like shoe leather on a dry pavement . |
| 8 | Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery . |
| 9 | The position of the outlets on the fascia board can be determined by a plumbline hanging down centrally over the gully or drain inlet . |
| 10 | Part of the rope still swung there , hanging down directly over the water . |
| 11 | ‘ But I do n't think either ourselves or Forest will be struggling down there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Ah just like to know the company Ah 'll be keepin' down there in the Southern Ocean . ’ |
| 13 | She was walking on ahead up the narrow path now , he following behind pushing his bike , when he said , ‘ Your people live here ? ’ |
| 14 | She peered out into the office , winding down now at the end of the first day : at the two constables scribbling notes at their desk , at another sitting at the HOLMES computer , at a WPC glancing through the actions book . |
| 15 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 16 | Yes , well fortunately this whole Gulf thing seems to have died down will be dying down just at the right time . |
| 17 | Now the cartoon Princess stops at the point where she is clad in sexy underwear , instead of stripping down further to the G-string . |
| 18 | Larger areas of track can be lifted off by applying Sellotape , pressing down firmly onto the offending artwork , and then lifting off sharply . |
| 19 | Here , someone had gone to considerable lengths to get the cushions toning in nicely with the curtains . |
| 20 | So how about having a look at disability — perhaps then we 'll be seen as people and not charity cases capable only of living our lives in day centres away from the public , instead of blending in harmoniously with the able-bodied world . |
| 21 | His back was to her , he was toddling along purposefully in the same direction as her , across that bleak empty landscape . |
| 22 | I was walking through here to the office . |
| 23 | The picture on the last page shows the father walking off alone along the darkening street , leaving the brightly lit house behind him . |
| 24 | If she did n't get some decent sleep soon , she 'd be in severe danger of cracking up completely under the strain . |
| 25 | ‘ Have you got any food ? ’ said Adam hoarsely , hunching up sideways in the driver 's seat . |
| 26 | Berwick was a slantwise town , sloping up northwards from the harbour area , its outer walls halfway up to the castle . |
| 27 | All the time he had this great bursting feeling of utter incredulity inside him ; it kept exploding , he kept laughing out loud at the memory of the amazing appearance before his very eyes of this whole new life ; the shock of it would not fade . |
| 28 | He felt for a pulse then , letting the gunman 's arm drop , he holstered the Browning before walking back slowly towards the doors . |
| 29 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 30 | A central body of granite trending NNW — SSE is flanked by a marginal belt of veined gneisses , the veins dying out away from the central body of granite . |