Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 2 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 3 | Proceedings for the dissolution or winding up of a partnership shall be commenced in the court for the district in which the partnership business was or is carried on ( Ord 4 , r 5 ) . |
| 4 | Crystal talks about walking out of a relationship . |
| 5 | EMO was walking out of a studio one day when he was struck by a taxi . |
| 6 | It was like the scene where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid start to rob yet another ‘ easy ’ train only to find an armed and mounted posse leaping out of a carriage . |
| 7 | Lenny Roberts began the dramatic demo by climbing out of a window at Birmingham 's Victoria Law Courts . |
| 8 | Thus there is no evidence as yet for any imaginative creation , development and writing up of a range of stories within the English fabliau corpus . |
| 9 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 10 | Living out of a suitcase away from home and family has become one of the main causes of stress among businessmen , concluded a survey by the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 11 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 12 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 13 | Survival instinct is absolutely incredible , to see the wounds of a terrier and a fox when they have locked jaw locked and are pulled squealing out of a hole , I think I am deeply concerned about anybody here today that can turn that blind eye because what their terrier men are doing is dog fighting , make no bones about it , they wo n't be interested in laying the scent , they will not be interested in being retrained and helping your fraternity . |
| 14 | There 's somebody looking out of a window up there , looking a bit worried . |
| 15 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 16 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 17 | In the second book , a photograph is spoken of which ‘ shows the pulling down of a monument to one of the Shahs ( father or son ) in Teheran or some other Iranian city . |
| 18 | drain like light going out of a landscape . |
| 19 | Across the road a plump , middle-aged woman with greying auburn hair was peering out of a window . |
| 20 | He came rushing out of an alleyway just ahead of me but he did n't see me . |
| 21 | By not uttering a word to the audience , then keeping the stage shrouded in smoke , lit only from the back in lurid purple , orange and red , and reducing the band to shadowy figures looming out of a fog , he put so much distance between them and anybody past the regulation front-of-stage pogoers that attention easily wandered . |
| 22 | If blood is pumping out of a wound , use a clean pad to press on the wound , or if need be your bare hands or the pads of your fingers . |
| 23 | Social implications include a resistance to co-operative activities growing out of a reluctance to surrender one 's freedom of action or to subordinate one 's wishes to the will of others . |
| 24 | It is this emphasis on supplementary rather than substitute care ( Davis , 1981 ) , growing out of a recognition of the fundamentally shared nature of parenting , which should be the driving force behind a new direction for child care policy . |
| 25 | In the 1914 period the custom was to turn the aircraft upside down and then to load the wings with bags of sand or lead shot distributed so as to represent the various aerodynamic loads which occur under the worst conditions , such as pulling out of a dive . |
| 26 | COMMUNIST North Korea , suspected of building an atomic arsenal , said yesterday it was pulling out of a world agreement on limiting nuclear arms rather than face international inspection of secret military sites . |
| 27 | I start browsing out of a sense of duty to begin with , and drench myself with showers of settled rainwater every time I reach into a bush . |
| 28 | Flames were pouring out of a well . |
| 29 | No matter how hard I concentrate I always end up clambering out of a manhole in Duke Ellington Boulevard with a dustbin-lid on my head . |
| 30 | So millions of lives are launched in a multitude of different ways hopping from a pouch , tumbling from a womb , clambering out of a capsule , hammering open an eggshell or falling into the sea , scattered wholesale like seeds . |