Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was better to stop every day 's travel early so as to have good energy for raising a tent , digging an igloo , building a platform up a tree . |
| 2 | She 'd erm was erm getting a pie out the oven and cos some of the juice went on the floor , she wiped it up thinking she 'd wiped it up properly and she did n't , she slipped , she 's broken a couple of bones in her foot . |
| 3 | Carole ( 3.11 ) was manoeuvring a pram up a steep slope . |
| 4 | Cut the crap — he 's doing a handrail down a flight of steps , that 's all . |
| 5 | Having a drink out the bottom . |
| 6 | Recently I 've made three dogs out of wood and cement , chasing a deer up a slope in Grizedale . |
| 7 | We were in Mrs Mackintosh 's Tea Roomes , just off West Nile Street , surrounded by straightly pendulous light fitments , graph-paper pierced wooden screens , and ladder-back seats which turned my usual procedure of hanging my coat or jacket on the rear of the seat into an operation that resembled hoisting a flag up a tall mast . |
| 8 | Look in particular at putting a ball up a bank if the pin is positioned close to the edge of the green . |
| 9 | I 'm not talking about shoving a prick up a five-year-old , which is beastly , or years of sexual dominance , but just a little playing around ? ’ |