Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the episodes and dialogue are intentionally comic — as when the son helps a friendly local chief to shake off some warriors from a neighbouring tribe by bringing down a swarm of bees on them . |
| 2 | ‘ This , ’ he says slapping down a copy of THE FACE — bare-chested Marky Mark on its cover — with an air of triumphalism , ‘ is more homoerotic than our pictures ! ’ |
| 3 | It started as a funnelling current the size of a sea horse , then lengthened , sucking in a core of air . |
| 4 | Sucking in a lungful of cold air , Piper moved once more down the corridor . |
| 5 | One evening I was bringing in a basket of apples from the garden , when a voice behind me said , ‘ Ellen , is that you ? ’ |
| 6 | Vic Noodle kicked off married life and the new season by pawning his wife 's jewellery and bringing in a clutch of new signings . |
| 7 | At first he had liked the thought of bringing in a lot of women to make Gina jealous . |
| 8 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 9 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 10 | The Cockney soap shot up the ratings after bringing in a series of controversial episodes , including rape , murder , gay love and suicide bids . |
| 11 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 12 | ‘ Why ? ’ said Albert , knocking over a toothglass of Kirsch with his other boot as he tried to scrape the gelantine off the left heel with his right toe . |
| 13 | It was essential to be able to put a hand out for something in the dark without knocking over a jug of water , or sending a pee-bottle flying . |
| 14 | This may have occurred in the western Pacific Ocean where the age of the lithosphere presently being subducted indicates that cooling over a period of about 180 200 Ma is required for this process of spontaneous subduction to occur . |
| 15 | This account of normalisation focuses on opening up a range of life-style opportunities which are available to the rest of the population but which have tended to be closed to people with learning difficulties . |
| 16 | As Titron lifted , the black water in the dock sucked away , opening up a drop of several feet , only to be followed by a surge upwards . |
| 17 | The first frame last night was as crucial as any , but Hendry won that with breaks of 54 and 55 before opening up a lead of three with an 81 which proved to be his highest after the interval . |
| 18 | Reading this collection of interviews with twenty five Scottish and Irish women poets is like opening up a box of plain chocolates , only to be confronted with an array of brightly coloured and diverse tasting liqueurs . |
| 19 | I was in no way offended , though , by O'Connor 's simple action of tearing up a picture of the Pope on television . |
| 20 | Drunks were making a din on the stairs and a sculptor was tearing up a collection of Kisling 's drawings and throwing them down on to the head of the concierge . |
| 21 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 22 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 23 | Because it is autumn again , and the frosts have arrived , they are knocking up a spot of cider . |
| 24 | Adam 's secretary was engrossed in totting up a column of figures when Lissa walked into his office on Monday morning . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been busy mopping up a crowd of drug smugglers . ’ |
| 26 | Which is more than can be said , perhaps , for some of the offerings labelled Panto that are currently mopping up a lot of customers . |
| 27 | I answered , ‘ They were throwin' out a pile of ol' props n ’ costumes . ’ |
| 28 | Idiosyncratic gestures , such as an individual 's habit of tossing back a strand of hair , are more likely to be signals of personal character or state of mind which are transmitted unintentionally and unconsciously . |
| 29 | Now they are checking out a number of other countries for a spring 1993 visit . |
| 30 | He was knocking back a bottle of vodka each morning while he was making The Devil 's Brigade . |