Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 2 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 3 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 4 | He was breathless with the effort of clinging precariously to the limited footholds and it was time , he decided , to risk climbing down to the ground . |
| 5 | Five hundred lines to anyone caught sneaking in before the bell ! ’ |
| 6 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 7 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 8 | Exhilarated Ian wanted to try walking back without the balancing pole . |
| 9 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 10 | However , a tail-wheel is more convenient for ground handling , particularly as with these types of glider the tail is extremely heavy and awkward to lift when the glider needs turning around on the ground . |
| 11 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 12 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 13 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 14 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |
| 15 | My daughter 's idea of a good film is one where she starts crying round about the end of the queue for tickets . |
| 16 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not going to lose my credibility on this train by being caught coming out of the help 's bedroom . ’ |
| 18 | FAR from the crowded Second Division title race , Blackburn goalie Bobby Mimms loves coming back to the peace of his home village in North Yorkshire . |
| 19 | ( He says ( Perople like their creature comforts and will enjoy coming back to the hotel ) |
| 20 | I heard recently that Australia has come whooping out of the closet . |
| 21 | It 's a bit embarrassing to come staggering out of the mist , with a purple face , eyes lost in swollen , battered tissue , gasping for breath , to find people wandering around the path in cardigans and slacks . |
| 22 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 23 | He pointed back down the road to where his travelling companion was still approaching , having adopted a method of riding that involved falling out of the saddle every few seconds . |
| 24 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 25 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals he has arising out of the report on primary education by Alexander , Rose and Woodhead . |
| 26 | Still , people often do it without thinking , especially in a fight when everyone falls over and starts rolling about on the ground . |
| 27 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 28 | The National Rivers Authority say messing about on the river is n't clever , and that too many people fail to appreciate the dangers . |
| 29 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 30 | In the early morning planes were heard passing over in the mist and the rain . |