Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly pull the barbell upwards , keeping it close to the stomach and chest until it is just underneath the chin and the elbows are pointing upwards . |
| 2 | Slowly raise the dumb-bell vertically as high as possible without jerking or rocking , keeping it close to the body . |
| 3 | One-arm dumb-bell rowing — slowly raise the dumb-bell without jerking or rocking , keeping it close to the body |
| 4 | She shut her eyes and turned the ignition key , pressing it slightly to the left . |
| 5 | ‘ Here , ’ said Meryl , passing it across to the woman squatting beside her . |
| 6 | Magda ze Schluderpacheru was unslinging a rocket-launcher from under the bar , and passing it across to the Maniax . |
| 7 | Phoebe was still asleep beside her , curled up and with her back close to her daughter 's : Maggie enjoyed the moment of comfort , adding it dreamily to the shadow that was also there . |
| 8 | In presenting it direct to the kings of Benin they showed good understanding . |
| 9 | But I do know that when times were bad , the people in the dale had to use the wool off the backs of the sheep themselves instead of sending it away to the wool merchants of Bradford after shearing . |
| 10 | Keep the tip of the branch upright by tying it securely to a firmly positioned cane . |
| 11 | If using mains lighting , feed the cable through conduit buried at least 450mm ( 18in ) deep , connecting it indoors to a residual current device . |
| 12 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 13 | Its declared aim was to preserve a family name by attaching it perpetually to an estate that passed undivided to a single heir . |
| 14 | Er simply in terms of the impact , there is a lot more work to be done on that and we would do that in t in developing the scheme and bringing it forward to the next stage , to mitigate the adverse effects er that come about as a result of er construction of new roads . |
| 15 | If temporarily fenced woodland was excluded from the calculation , the overall livestock stocking density on the farm would increase , bringing it closer to the overall stocking threshold above which HLCAs are not paid . |
| 16 | Alcatel Cable SA , Douvrin , France is increasing its optical fibre production to meet demand — when two new plants come on full stream in the middle of next year , annual output will grow to 930,000 miles from the 590,000 miles it did last year , bringing it close to the current number two , AT&T Co , but still way behind the 1.25m miles produced annually by Corning Inc . |
| 17 | The mighty Great Eastern not only laid a new cable ; it succeeded in hauling up the earlier one splicing on a centre-piece , and lowering it again to the sea-bed . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm showing it tonight to an audience of businessmen , and I always get red-hot when I watch this kind of thing . |
| 19 | A system of information storage and retrieval , making it easier to the user to maintain records . |
| 20 | He smiled sadly , then went across and took up the basin , carrying it across to the door . |
| 21 | The proposals , confirmed as viable by the newly privatised Merseyside and North West Electricity Board , involve diverting some of the water from two streams at the head of the Falls and piping it underground to a small stone and slate turbine house at the bottom of the valley . |
| 22 | The recent work by McAuslan and others ( supra ) in respect of the functioning of the Windscale Inquiry casts further doubt on the fairness of our current practice of leaving it solely to the legislature to determine the form and procedure to be adopted at such inquiries . |
| 23 | That means working it close to the ground , sweeping it backwards and forwards through overlapping arcs . |
| 24 | Eddie had cut away most of his thin nondescript hair , cropping it close to the skull , and she had also cut back the hair on his forehead , giving him a pronounced widow 's peak . |