Example sentences of "slipping [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came clear from the bag , her finger slipping on to the trigger , thumb freeing the safety catch . |
| 2 | Opening the door a crack she saw John lying in bed , unshaven and tousled , his pillows tumbled and the blue rayon eiderdown slipping on to the floor . |
| 3 | Slipping in without the grown-ups noticing . |
| 4 | He 'd said his prayers and celebrated Mass , Benedicta just slipping in at the door and kneeling next to the baptismal font instead of coming further up the nave . |
| 5 | The newcomer was ostentatiously dressed in robes slashed with yellow taffeta and bound by a gold cord very similar to one used by Benstede , although the latter had a row of knots in his to prevent it slipping down over the loops on his gown . |
| 6 | The red-hot steel tyre would be placed in position around the wheel ; if the tyre was of less width than the rim , temporary nails were partly driven into the wood to stop the tyre slipping down to the steel plate . |
| 7 | At a convergent boundary , such as the western coast of South America , two plates are in motion towards each other , with one plate slipping down below the other along a subduction zone . |
| 8 | Slipping down into the parking-lot under the hotel was like being swallowed , the entrance a dark throat with the tongue cut out . |
| 9 | Something metallic slithered from beneath her bed and vacuumed the debris away , before slipping back under the bed and deactivating with a click . |
| 10 | Each time the yen slips , the larger these dollar-based assets loom in the banks ' balance sheets — and the more they have to scrounge for additional yen-based equity at home in order to prevent their capital-adequacy figures from slipping back below the BIS requirement . |
| 11 | Cells must therefore be leaving the marginal row as the wound closes ( most probably by slipping back into the epithelium to the rear of this row ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't care if you starve , ’ she said tightly , slipping back into the rough gibing of their childhood . |
| 13 | Following her normal routine , she had changed out of her show glitter back into a long and relatively modest black evening dress before slipping back into the main section of the club . |
| 14 | Holding a length of silk in its beak , it then pierces a hole in the leaf and pushes the silk through it , tying a little knot in the end to prevent the thread from slipping back through the hole and then doing the same thing on the other side so that the two leaf surfaces are secured to one another . |
| 15 | Take her chance on slipping out of the door into the street and away . |
| 16 | She had seen the young man leaving Mary Kelly 's rooms and slipping out of the building by the back way on more than one occasion . |
| 17 | There is a moment of slow motion in which I have time to register the force of the water rushing over my body , my toes slipping out of the footcups , the paddle flying out of my hands . |
| 18 | Monitoring of people moved from Friern Hospital in north London and Claybury Hospital in Essex shows that they are not slipping out of the system and are enjoying a better quality of life with greater independence and a more varied social life . |
| 19 | She took the breakfast and , slipping out of the door , approached the kiln 's glow and the labourer 's dark back . |
| 20 | Three days before the opening night of the Season , Gesner — rather embarrassingly — stopped the rehearsal when he saw she was slipping out of the theatre to go home . |