Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or bulking it up with scouring powder |
| 2 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |
| 3 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 4 | However , as with the tutworker , from their gross income were deducted a number of items — the blacksmith 's cost of sharpening drills and picks ; a charge for raising or drawing the stuff up the shaft and tramming or waggoning it out to the dressing floors , and there , the cost of breaking up lumps into pieces about fist size . |
| 5 | When that did not work they tried pumping or spraying it on to neighbouring fields , hoping it would filter through the ground by natural causes . |
| 6 | Someone who 's forever pushing her hair out of her eyes , or stuffing it up in a clip on top of her head simply looks harassed . |
| 7 | It can involve redrawing the work to show a different scale of projection , or breaking it down into a general drawing or a series of drawings . |
| 8 | ‘ For take-off and landing , each propeller works like a helicopter rotor , pulling the plane into the sky or letting it down on the helipad . |
| 9 | At its hard edge it is critical of the threat of socialism itself , but it is also critical of Keynesianism — that theory of economic management which dominated the political consensus from the Second World War to the mid-seventies and which sought to maintain full(ish) levels of employment on the basis of governments managing the economy by manipulating the level of demand by putting money into , or taking it out of , the economy . |
| 10 | Initially , he attempted to browbeat the pope into judging the case in his favour or handing it back to an English ecclesiastical court . |
| 11 | This may mean returning it to the dealer or manufacturer , but certainly not incinerating it or throwing it out with other household waste that ends up in a shallow landfill . |
| 12 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |
| 13 | Is that for for trapping it in or tuning it in at all or a different thing ? |
| 14 | Whether exposing a bent cop in the system , comforting the widow of a colleague , or shooting it out with drug peddlers in downtown LA , he administered the covenant in Gun Law . |
| 15 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 16 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 17 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 18 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 19 | We knew that they were testing them , and checking it over and bringing it up to standard , but we did n't know anything about it other than that ! |
| 20 | Extracting this heat involves pumping water down an injection borehole drilled from the surface , circulating it through pre-existing fractures , or joints , in the rock , which have been enlarged using high-pressure liquid , and bringing it back to the surface via a second borehole . |
| 21 | Just collecting from somewhere else and bringing it back to themselves . |
| 22 | Keith needs play therapy to stop his rage by expressing his frustration and bringing it out into the open . |
| 23 | Then suddenly closing his eyes and clenching his fist and bringing it down on the counter , he said , ‘ Whatever you want to do , for God 's sake ! |
| 24 | He was still by the bomb , whacking the sand with his plank , using both hands to hold it and bringing it down with all his strength , jumping up in the air at the same time and yelling . |
| 25 | The lines particularly can be more convenient than transfers because you can simply follow the original artwork like following a map , unwinding from the reel and sticking it down onto the film as you go along — though it can be fiddly on dense or complicated boards . |
| 26 | He says of Mr Kinnock 's call : ‘ I think it is a huge tribute to those of us who have spoken for the Conservative Party on industrial matters , and have had some personal experience in creating a small business and building it up to some size . |
| 27 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 28 | Polish technicians were at work assembling and checking it out during mid-October . |
| 29 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
| 30 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |