Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Heseltine is accusing Labour of highjacking Tory policies in a bid to get elected . |
| 2 | It was a dull , snowy night , with heavy grey clouds hanging low in the sky , the kind of night when hopes are destroyed and love is lost . |
| 3 | Using SMED with the policies of ‘ Working Smarter not Harder ’ and ‘ Eliminating Waste , ’ the MIT launched itself into grade change-over time reduction with tremendous success . |
| 4 | The possibility of overspending due to inevitable inaccuracy in the estimate should be guarded against by the inclusion of contingency sums . |
| 5 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 6 | The German was hanging helpless on his rope . |
| 7 | I could also see the colour of paint I was using due to the pearly-white bristles . |
| 8 | Using strong down pressure , plane until the desired bevel has been obtained . |
| 9 | The manor-house door had opened , and a woman in bare feet , with long grey hair hanging half-plaited over her shoulder , was moving towards the pageant like a magnet towards a lodestone . |
| 10 | Spring-born suckled beef calves grazed with their dams until housed or sold do not usually develop clinical signs , although coughing due to a mild infection is common . |
| 11 | In bringing Labour to the edge of victory , Mr Kinnock has performed a near-miracle . |
| 12 | This is simply because the second , or front , bed makes knit and purl knitting possible within the same row . |
| 13 | For many applications , mathematical modelling is actually proving preferable to physical experimentation . |
| 14 | A report from a consultant pathologist said the cause of Mrs Colbert 's death was blood poisoning due to burns . |
| 15 | From school I knew this parable by heart , and I think the reader must have known it too , because as he reached the concluding sentences , his frail hands were already feeling for the embroidered marker and preparing to close the great heavy book , so that his eyes were not on the page but were gazing unseeing into mine as he spoke the final well-worn words , ‘ Then said Jesus unto him , ‘ Go , and do thou likewise . ’ ’ |
| 16 | Howard sits tensely at his drawing-board , his mouth tight shut , his eyes gazing unseeing at the paper , rigid with anxiety to produce a good big handle . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ This tragedy could have been avoided because the method of decanting used in an enclosed space with a direct source of ignition available and the use of an unsuitable type of hand lamp did not constitute a safe system of working . ’ |
| 18 | The clouds were scudding low over the rooftops ; it was pouring with rain and the streets were flooded . |
| 19 | Using DIM to Reserve Memory 3.2.2 |
| 20 | Stepping high in the light gravity and brandishing the bag before her , she ploughed her way out into the open air . |
| 21 | Liartes , by far the most cautious of the two brothers , was circling high above them . |
| 22 | ‘ Listen for the hawfinch , ‘ ptik ’ … and a garden warbler singing high in a beech tree where an opening in the trees overlooks the valley . ’ |
| 23 | Willey , credited with bringing Manly to pre-eminence before spells with Balmain , Norths , Souths and , most recently , Penrith , hopes to arrive in time for Sunday 's Yorkshire Cup semi-final replay , against Halifax . |
| 24 | The march , scheduled to end in the Kashmiri capital , Srinagar , on Jan. 26 ( Republic Day ) , had reportedly been organized to express the BJP 's opposition to the special constitutional status accorded to Kashmir and , in particular , to a clause prohibiting non-Kashmiris from owning land in the state . |
| 25 | Not a UFO hanging high above Rennie House but one of five new water coolers , each of ten tonnes , being hoisted onto the roof at the beginning of April . |
| 26 | Here he tracked animals , and we followed , wading waist-deep through swamp water , crawling on our stomachs to be as close as possible . |
| 27 | Also , the effect of wading waist-deep in this stuff is really disgusting . |
| 28 | Rice paddies stretched away endlessly on either side of the ship , and they saw crowds of Annamese in cone-shaped hats of palm leaf already at work , sometimes wading waist-deep in the muddy water . |
| 29 | Stepping fearless through the night … ’ |
| 30 | An exhibition of moving toys has just opened , with not a single battery , microchip or flashing light to be seen . |