Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year .
2 This is important because if you do get infected , you can be sure that there are no viruses resident in memory by turning the PC off and rebooting from this disk .
3 Poor little Willie was fairly screaming the place down and banging on the barred window that separated him so carefully from the world .
4 He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat , always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him .
5 She 's like , she 's like tearing the wall down and collapsing on the floor with hysterics .
6 Linking the Pro GAP back up and checking through the rest of the sounds the Utopia had to offer , one thing became obvious : that the Intellifex is the real key to a lot of great sounds .
7 He laughs , too , putting his head back and looking at the ceiling .
8 Throwing my head back and laughing in the man 's face was not , on reflection , the correct or polite response .
9 It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again .
10 Mr again about guns , what is the your general policy on and dealing with guns in the presence of children ?
11 Mockingly he copied her own deliberate hesitancy , before pushing his chair back and rising to his feet .
12 She suddenly rose to her feet , pushing her chair back and reaching for her bag .
13 He was carrying this money around and trying to be flash .
14 Sun , which claims an installed base of some 2,000 machines in Ireland , has had an operation up and running for three years .
15 With OSF 's help , Protek will have a training and integration centre up and running by May with a range of hardware platforms running DCE .
16 Yes I think you saw there Whitlow 's respect for Collimore he does n't want him to get turn round and running at him because big Stan 's got great touch and he 's got very very he 's got explosive pace .
17 Cornelius woke again to find the world up and waiting for him .
18 Pieper says it will also feature Quarterdeck Office Systems Inc 's MS-DOS implementation of the X-Window system , Desqview/X — which has finally appeared after lengthy delays ( UX No 380 ) — if its can get the thing up and running on it .
19 But it can be a bit dangerous if you 've had a few drinks , because you keep pumping the thing up and forgetting about it . ’
20 Once you have the program up and running on your computer , you will be presented with a MAIN MENU screen .
21 The problem will be getting the company up and running before the best players in the Kings ice hockey team leave .
22 Sir Hector said : ‘ It 's absolutely crucial to dairy farmers and the industry that we have a scheme up and running by April 1994 which is acceptable . ’
23 InformationWeek quotes Taligent Inc chief executive Joe Guglielmi as saying his folks have a version of its object-oriented operating system up and running on an Apple Computer Inc Macintosh Quadra : Taligent , which intends publishing specifications this year followed by a developer 's kit , has also written some low-level applications for the system along the lines of Apple 's MacDraw — but the final system is not due until 1995 .
24 Hewlett-Packard is contracted to have the system up and running in six months .
25 Hewlett-Packard is contracted to have the system up and running in six months .
26 Last season 59% of senior games were on synthetic but that will rise to 68% at least … and more if Civil Service can get their proposed pitch up and running before the end of the campaign .
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