Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 2 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 3 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 4 | knocking them back a bit |
| 5 | I 'm I 'm winding you up a little bit but no I mean there 's a little method in this . |
| 6 | After a week of checking everything out the survey began in earnest on 9 February . |
| 7 | ‘ But what 's wrong with crapping on newspaper and emptying it out every now and then ? |
| 8 | If you wish , you can make this casserole in a saucepan , simmering it over a low heat on top of the cooker . |
| 9 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
| 10 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 11 | Yeah , she 's meeting her up the Tavern . |
| 12 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 13 | If the cross-grained walnut , or other suitable wood , is cut and glued to the pine backing , then the task of passing it over a circular saw is greatly simplified . |
| 14 | ‘ Like that , ’ said Lee pushing it up a bit . |
| 15 | She turned right into the High Street then jumped from the cycle and began pushing it up an alleyway on her left which led into the stables cum car park at the rear of the Berkeley Chase Hotel . |
| 16 | But I thought we wanted to keep this a low profile bungalow and that 's pushing it up the same as the other one in Grey Lane went up . |
| 17 | And h let him realize that he 's remembering these , and it 's easier than looking it up every time . |
| 18 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 19 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 20 | ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path ! |
| 21 | It was like pulling them off a duplicating machine , and after a while , when we realised we had little or no chance of catching anything bigger , it became so boring we never went again . |
| 22 | Another major advantage over the thinner types of cladding is that they provide additional insulation to exterior walls ( which can be augmented by fixing them over an extra layer of insulation ) . |
| 23 | Creeping plants , such as Java Moss , can be trained into shapes , perhaps by growing them up a trellis , or over suitable-arranged rockwork . |
| 24 | The plot was two corpses gone before we caught sight of ourselves , stripped naked in the middle of nowhere and pouring ourselves down a bottomless well . |
| 25 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 26 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 27 | He tried to prolong the date , leading her down the streets of the old part of town and then uphill to the courtyard of an old cloister , teeming with tourists . |
| 28 | He read her mind and drew the woman away , leading her down the room to a comfortable chair . |
| 29 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |
| 30 | We was there all one Sunday with a trace-horse , pulling him up the common with his slaughter-cart : dead cows and that . |