Example sentences of "[verb] and [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My favourite of them is the Power Toolbox , a way of taking program launching and switching out of the Program Manager altogether and putting your own buttons on the desktop . |
| 2 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |
| 3 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 4 | Corbett bathed in the guest-house 's one and only tub before dressing and going down to the buttery for ale and a bowl of bread and fish boiled in milk . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up . |
| 6 | Young people mostly ; some were singing and prancing along in the middle of the roadway . |
| 7 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 8 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 9 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 10 | It is to that ‘ twilight zone ’ that we should direct our attentions , waiting and watching on as the edges waiver , become indistinct , and blend . |
| 11 | Waiting and watching down by the shops — |
| 12 | Once built , the nests are lined with tightly packed leaves which act as insulation and the hedgehogs are then ready to sleep the winter away , occasionally waking and wandering about on the off chance of finding a meal . |
| 13 | He dismissed her by turning and wading back round the corner of the wall . |
| 14 | He nodded at her now , and again said , ‘ By ! ’ before turning and running on to the stage . |
| 15 | Blonde Michelle says : ‘ My boyfriend Fisher Stevens will have to drag me kicking and screaming out of the house , but once I get on holiday I 'm sure I 'll enjoy it . |
| 16 | He 's a restless sleeper , kicking and thrashing about throughout the night . |
| 17 | She was always crying and storming out of the classroom . |
| 18 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not surprised ! ’ the other girl agreed sympathetically , having just heard from Laura the full story of her traumatic outing , which had culminated in her being arrested and ending up in the New York police station . |
| 20 | Billy and Mary were fooling and rolling about in the sunbeams on the edge of the clearing . |
| 21 | They wheel about the sky , fading and crystallizing out of the air to the horror of their victims , striking fear into their hearts with their piercing cries . |
| 22 | Whores sat on balconies , drinking and staring down into the street . |
| 23 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 24 | ‘ God preserve me from foolish and deceitful women , ’ he said , letting her hair go and falling back on the pillow , his arms raised angrily above his head . |
| 25 | The Gulf War , like a knife , cut the string , and the beads are dropping and bouncing around on the ground . |
| 26 | The other reason was in the late eighties and early nineties we had a very large expenditure programme indeed in one year amounting to one hundred million pounds now of that are now becoming fully depreciated and falling out of the charge |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This would normally result in overshooting and flying out of the field altogether . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The authorities also drafted regulations to circumscribe public activity in Tiananmen Square itself , which included the prohibition of any memorial activity and of " joking and playing , sitting and lying down on the ground " . |