Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were driving down the Boulevard St Germain towards the river ; the Seine 's fast-flowing current , parted hard against the piers of the bridges , seemed to Miranda 's eyes to capture the pace and temperament of this city where she felt so happy , where she wanted to stay . |
| 2 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 3 | Opening Up The East Josephine Lanyon reports on the second year of East & South which has attracted an extraordinary number of women artists |
| 4 | At the moment they are prepared to work with the political parties in keeping up the momentum December generated , but it 's clear they intend to progress with their agenda whether or not the formal politicians continue to drag their feet . |
| 5 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 6 | In the pauses , I tried totting up the words Vern had spoken since we 'd arrived . |
| 7 | I remembered Mr Broadhurst-that-was mopping up the Sally Lunns but that was a mere warm-up exercise compared to this . |
| 8 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 9 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 10 | They 're , I tell you where they are it 's that row just as you 're climbing up the Daisy Hill , before you get to the |
| 11 | Yet this book , filling in the gaps Khrushchev left when the bulk of his reminiscences were smuggled out to the West in the early 1970s , is the most depressing reading for Mr Gorbachev . |
| 12 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 13 | ‘ You come under the sign for twins , if this card is anything to go by , ’ he said , picking up the card Myra had sent . |
| 14 | After destroying the abandoned village 's crops and rounding up the Nez Perce cattle , Whipple 's troops marched north-west to Cottonwood , having ‘ stirred up a new hornet 's nest ’ . |
| 15 | Brian Sanders flying Sea Fury Dreadnought was in a close third followed by Mickey Rupp in P-51 Old Crow , Bill Rheinschild in P-51 Risky Business , Kevin Eldridge in thee All Coast Super Corsair , Bob Yancey in his Yak , Race 101 , Peristroika , Matt Jackson in P-51 Stiletto , and rounding out the field Gary Levitz in Miss Ashley . |
| 16 | He knocked quickly , tapping out the code Madam Lundy had given him . |
| 17 | The issue on global warming ( Turning down the heat NI 206 ) |
| 18 | On the buses , everything is running smoothly , except for buses heading down the Headington Road out towards the Green Road roundabout because of the accident there . |
| 19 | After paying off the driver Nathan steered her into a busy , softly lit restaurant , and she had to admit he had guessed correctly that a meal did indeed top her list of priorities . |
| 20 | Greenpeace also accuses the government of not complying with international agreements signed by Britain , such as the 1974 Paris Convention on cleaning up the North Sea . |
| 21 | For example , environmental audits of the prioritised projects of reducing chronic air pollution in Silesia and cleaning up the Baltic Sea , have shown that the most effective ways of dealing with the problems are to modernise Silesian state-owned coal burning power plants and provide sewage plants for Poland 's Vistula River . |
| 22 | There were some steep gradients , particularly Anerley Hill , leading up the Crystal Palace . |
| 23 | WITH Christmas in mind BBC Video is rushing out the Michael Palin 's current TV odyssey Pole To Pole on December 10 . |
| 24 | Erm , before we leave item one D , sir , there are two things that Hambledon would like to say both on the q questions that the Chairman asked , capacity , and also on the principal of breaking down the Greater York figure i into the constituent districts , erm , the first point , on capacity , erm , we feel that we have a very limited capacity , er to accommodate development needs advising in Greater York , you 'll see from our statement that we have just two settlements an , sorry three settlements in two parishes er within the defined Greater York area , Shipton , Beningborough , and Overton . |
| 25 | Proceeding up the Madison River , the fugitives entered what in 1872 had become Yellowstone National Park , and were guided east by a captured prospector , John Shively . |
| 26 | ( c ) 1923 Party Seats Conservative 258 Labour 191 Liberal 159 Others Several outcomes were theoretically possible , but neither Labour ( under MacDonald ) nor the Conservatives ( under Baldwin , who had played an important part in breaking up the Lloyd George coalition in 1922 ) would countenance a coalition . |
| 27 | Continue to Quebec City , an old walled city divided into two parts : the picturesque old quarter built entirely on a cliff , and the lower town spreading up the St. Charles River Valley . |
| 28 | By strolling up the Waterfall Road one can see first the old Lime Kiln and then higher up the Cranny Waterfalls . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's heading north up there , ’ said Moxon , pointing up the Finchley Road . |
| 30 | England did actually begin with a victory , Miller and Willey rather unexpectedly bowling out the Young West Indies XI on the last afternoon . |