Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Angela 's on about nipping from the army across into West Berk . |
| 2 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 3 | The case came on for hearing at the beginning of April 1992 . |
| 4 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 5 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 6 | However , this is not done where Ord 17 r 11 ( automatic directions ) applies , unless the case had been set down for hearing in the High Court before transfer or a request for a day for hearing to be fixed is made under Ord 17 , r 11(3) ( d ) . |
| 7 | This is reflected in Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act in the procedures laid down for dealing with the exclusion of pupils from school and with the appeals which might arise from exclusion . |
| 8 | At that time there were no instructions laid down for dealing with the radio pirate vessels and , although this particular vessel was outside territorial waters , there was no reason why a cutter should not make reasonable enquiries from vessels in close proximity to our coast . |
| 9 | Staying so close to the palace will enhance your enjoyment , enabling you to make many mini-trips in between reading about the extraordinary life of its court . |
| 10 | A sentry let us in after looking at the Feldwebel s papers with a torch and we walked up a garden path towards a sort of suburban villa . |
| 11 | A method for toning down after concentrating on the outside of the body , while at the same time exercising the internal organs , was invented by the old Chinese masters . |
| 12 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 13 | Although I must admit … ’ he paused to slow the car down before turning off the road to come to a halt outside an attractive inn , thatched , gabled and wooden-beamed , its façade ablaze with baskets of flowers , its forecourt furnished with long trestle-tables and carved wooden chairs . |
| 14 | Of course Elmer Rice 's play had been censored and toned down before coming to the screen but Photoplay still needed to ask whether ‘ the public really wants a true cross-section of life presented as it actually happens ’ . |
| 15 | I only just managed to get it down before bolting from the tent just in time to get rid of the contents of my stomach . |
| 16 | They set off down the passage and the assistant sealed them in before returning to the shop . |
| 17 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 18 | Keep interest rates low ( at r 1 ) in order , say , to keep down the costs of investment , but also reduce money supply to a level of Q 2 The trouble here is that the government can not both control the money supply and keep interest rates down without running into the problem of disequilibrium . |
| 19 | leap in without looking at the detail of it , I think now the function heads namely you , |
| 20 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 21 | Even before ministers get down to arguing over the details , they face a row about whether the proposed company statute can be approved by a majority vote ( as the commission would like ) or must be passed unanimously . |
| 22 | Erm then we get down to coming into the twentieth century . |
| 23 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 24 | ‘ Let us all down by looking like the poor relation ? ’ |
| 25 | Skilled negotiators avoid using irritators such as these and keep the emotional temperature down by sticking to the facts . |
| 26 | Do you slow other people down by driving in the rush hour ? |
| 27 | This was then immediately scrubbed onto a piece of scrap paper until the charge of paint began to run out ; at that point a thin scumble was quickly put down by stabbing with the brush tip onto the background colouring . |
| 28 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 29 | Just closing a little bit on the vehicle in front , waiting for these hatchings to finish then gently accelerating through after checking in the mirror again . |
| 30 | Statement is shot through with feeling in the long , passionately detailed account of the mutiny . |