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 | Examination of sentencing in either the magistrates ' courts or the Crown Court on their own may also be misleading . |
| 5 | But on the other hand , in doing this he is in danger of passing over altogether the notion of social ‘ repression ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , the 'andle spun round an' sent 'im flyin' up ter the ceilin' . |
| 7 | The Americans have invaded , and are rounding up both the rebels and governmental forces . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm basically leading down there the products and corporate strategy there they 're having difficulty identifying what their product range . |
| 13 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 14 | If there are , say which they are instead of pointing out only the faults . |
| 15 | Because there 's never any point in rooting out just the workers and leaving the management free . |
| 16 | I see Scribners is bringing out both the novels , and has a sizeable publicity campaign on the stocks . |
| 17 | I mean being on my own , travelling down here the way that I did . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 21 | The Director-General , Biagio Agnes ( like all RAI executives a political party appointee ) , has angrily accused the Berlusconi camp of ‘ dragging in even the authorities of the state and seizing every opportunity to attack the public broadcasting service with statements of such arrogance that they betray weakness and sheer lack of class despite ( Berlusconi 's ) economic power and much-vaunted influential friendships ’ . |
| 22 | Households are similarly rationed in the goods market , i.e. , on account of ( a ) their failure to sell labour services and ( b ) the unwillingness of firms to produce any more than Y. By way of contrast , firms are in continuous neoclassical equilibrium and are not subject to quantity rationing in either the goods market or the labour market . |
| 23 | Switzerland stood down from taking on the rotating EFTA presidency in the first six months of 1993 , taking up instead the vice-presidency ( in charge of negotiations with third countries , including eastern Europe ) ; the presidency passed instead to Sweden . |
| 24 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
| 25 | The neo-classical period of the 1920s and 1930s had as one of its ideals a return to the past , avoiding Romantic expressions ( which were held in contempt ) and taking up mainly the styles of the Baroque era . |
| 26 | Skiving was not infrequent — the pupils slipping out once the register had been called — and one boy had a job without officially leaving school . |
| 27 | He hopped in and unzipped the rucksack , taking out only the scope which he pointed back towards the lakeside . |
| 28 | Between his preparations , Norman was quiet , looking around himself , breathing in deep the atmosphere of the place . |
| 29 | Certainly , you do read the odd story that describes a person behaving in just the way we have outlined . |
| 30 | At the centre , visitors can see not only the trees flourishing on literally the world 's richest compost . |