Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's bringing home the bacon … and then there 's bringing back the ham . |
| 2 | I 'm directing his energy and he 's bringing out the humour in me , at last , which ca n't be a bad thing . ’ |
| 3 | Yale is bringing out The Planters of the English Landscape Garden by Douglas D.C. Chambers , dealing with the philosophy of gardening and landscaping in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries . |
| 4 | One view of the overall employment implications of new technology is that it is bringing about the collapse of work . |
| 5 | Northamptonshire County Council is bringing in the ban on nearly four thousand acres of farmland where fox hunting could take place . |
| 6 | The JD Tele is jangly and promisingly loud ; the Signature model sounds subdued to the point of inertia , almost as if the basswood is sucking up the sound — not a good start . |
| 7 | What follows thereafter is building up the knowledge and experience of all those things that will enable us to identify , plan and implement improvements to our business . |
| 8 | ‘ The hardest part of the whole technique is building up the independence of the finger that holds the bottleneck . |
| 9 | ‘ It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go , ’ he declares uncompromisingly . |
| 10 | It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go |
| 11 | She 's still a little unsure on those tacks , she 's easing out the mainsheet as she goes round . |
| 12 | However , he is climbing up the weights and may find this trip a shade on the short side . |
| 13 | You 're in a position of strength as a potential client who is checking out the service on offer . |
| 14 | Upstairs in the nursery the baby is tearing up The Anatomy of Melancholy , and eating it page by page . |
| 15 | Bill Strachan , its second owner , is keeping up the policy of good beer . |
| 16 | And if a strange person is walking up the driveway with intention of breaking in at least somebody may notice it . |
| 17 | No , wrong way round Oh it 's brightening up the weather a bit now . |
| 18 | This is the wild and tasteless world of The Hitman And Her , the vibrantly garish , unashamedly downmarket youth TV programme that is storming up the ratings chart with its gloriously OTT presentation of provincial culture . |
| 19 | yeah , so Ivan said to me , he said er he said well I do I suppose you have noticed he said but whenever she comes down here he said the whole line stops I said I quite agree I said well let's be honest about it if he 's knocking out the meat he , it 's got ta stop cos he stops |
| 20 | The context in Mark 3:20–30 makes it abundantly clear that by his cures and exorcisms Jesus is driving out the demons . |
| 21 | Cllr Long said there were worries for centre users , as no alternative care scheme had yet been agreed by St Helen 's and Knowsley Health Authority , which is winding up the project . |
| 22 | Well there is another man and she has told Paul that frankly she 's lapping up the attention . |
| 23 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 24 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 25 | His feet are wide apart , legs straight , and his head is looking down the pitch over the left shoulder . |
| 26 | yes , it 's tonight , it 's filling in the application form , but we 're asking you to read the scenario so you know a little bit about the people , and then this is all the information that 's been gathered . |
| 27 | So he 's filling in the application form of the dating agency , he said the girl 's got to be five foot ten , living in China , |
| 28 | Is not the truth that practically everyone was told , ’ Do n't worry — social security is picking up the bill . ’ |
| 29 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 30 | Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life . |