Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 2 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 3 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 4 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 5 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 6 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 7 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
| 8 | Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot . |
| 9 | With Rex and Woodchip out of the picture and the forces of darkness set loose upon the land , how can we fail ? |
| 10 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 11 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 12 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 13 | She had packed and checked out of the hotel without seeing either of the two brothers or her cousin . |
| 14 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 15 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 17 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 18 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 19 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 20 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 21 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 22 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 23 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 24 | She grew bored , and gazed out of the window , at the fading winter light and the fluttering descent of the snow . |
| 25 | Iris yawned , put her hands behind her head and gazed out of the window . |
| 26 | With a hesitant smile she turned away from him , and sipped what was left of her champagne and gazed out of the window . |
| 27 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 28 | Cornelius drew the curtains and gazed out upon the day . |
| 29 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 30 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |