Example sentences of "[noun sg] running [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 2 | If that was n't enough , what in heaven 's name is that lethal figure running around in the hold , like some latter-day Frankenstein 's monster ? ’ |
| 3 | Edmund Mortimer , with blood running down inside the plates of his armour , heaved his mount out of the mire and up to firm ground , and wheeled to take his first brief survey of the field , and locate the main body of the Welsh cavalry , for only in hand-to-hand combat with them was there any respite from the steady and murderous attentions of the bowmen above . |
| 4 | I continued to go off and on although I do have some special memories as a youngster running on to the Hillsborough turf to shake John Giles 's hand after beating Birmingham 3–0 in the Cup semi-final ( 1972 ) . |
| 5 | a pickpocket running off with the victim 's wallet and money . |
| 6 | Now family reasons can be anything from baby 's colic to a wife running off with the milkman , and there is no arguing with them , because it is indelicate to inquire further , and potentially embarrassing to boot . |
| 7 | It was all due to that person running out of the crowd . |
| 8 | The wall running up to the skyline beyond Middle Washfold points the way to the summit of Ingleborough and is the route usually followed by Three Peaks walkers , but others not committed to this arduous marathon , especially if inspired by what they have seen at Great Douk and Middle Washfold , may wish to linger on the easy ground below the steepening slopes . |
| 9 | Instead , play a punching , running shot , whether 30 yards or as much as 100 yards from the green , and get the ball running up onto the top layer . |
| 10 | Most will be the former , with the cable running out from the fuseway in the consumer unit to supply a number of socket outlets on the ring , and then returning to the same fuseway . |
| 11 | The vertebrate fossils could thus be arranged in a historical sequence running through from the most ancient to the most recent geological periods . |
| 12 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |
| 13 | It is also a good idea to secure the section of pipe running up to the ball-valve itself to a stout timber post fixed between the loft floor and the roof slope . |
| 14 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 15 | It was a bright day with thin sunshine burnishing up from the snow and men blinked and rubbed their eyes as they crossed the open space between the two compounds , tramping over the road running down to the village and the railway line that stretched far the other way to Pot'ma . |
| 16 | Three male actors , two big and one small , once staged an experiment in the Champs-Elysées , that magnificent wide road running down from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris . |
| 17 | She started to get up but he said , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and hurried out of the bar , running with his body crouched and his right hand holding the newspaper low down , like a soldier carrying a slung rifle running in to the attack . |
| 18 | Elegant and impressive detached residence with large well-stocked garden running down to the river , said the card in the window of the village 's estate agent . |
| 19 | This is a very old part of the Metropolitan , called the Hammersmith Line , nearly 130 years old , the line running out in the open via Latimer Road , Shepherd 's Bush and Goldhawk Road to Hammersmith . |
| 20 | and there 's also there 's a usual crack between the plasterboard and ceiling over the door and a little crack running down to the door . |
| 21 | And judging from the amount of fruit on the trees , there 's no risk of the cider running out in the coming year . |
| 22 | The wide eighteenth-century street running down to the riverside has grass verges in front of two long terraces of brick cottages . |
| 23 | The slope running down to the quarry-cliff was not steep , but its surface was very treacherous , consisting mostly of loose stones and shale , which were apt to slip under any movement . |
| 24 | As Zen stood there fiddling with the crucifix , the end of the upright suddenly came away cleanly in his hand and he saw that it was hollow and that the lower part of the shaft contained a heavy rectangular pack about two centimetres long connected to a wire running back into the shaft and disappearing through a small hole into the figure of Christ . |
| 25 | Her mouth was a little open and there was a watery trickle running out of the side of her mouth . |
| 26 | One particularly exposed ravine running down to the Meuse was nicknamed the ‘ Bowling Alley ’ by the Germans , and indeed the image was an apt one . |
| 27 | When challenged by the head gardener the Americans pretended to be a press gang , which was sufficient to set ‘ all the stout young fellows ’ on the estate running off to the town for safety , but he also informed them that their intended victim was taking the waters at Buxton , and Jones set off back to his boat , until the two officers with him pointed out that , having left Whitehaven empty-handed , the crew should at least be allowed to loot the house . |
| 28 | I was wounded to death and dying on my knees , scrabbling in dead grass , my time running out with the moonlight , the shadows closing in . |
| 29 | We bought the section running down on the east side eight years ago . ’ |