Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole . |
| 2 | Of course now it 's warm enough to start getting out in the garden , what could be better than to take a selection of water toys to play with in the paddling pool outside ? |
| 3 | The famous $18,000m black hole that Gartner Group so memorably spotted opening up in the heart of IBM 's business will suck the entire company into oblivion if it does n't embark on a crash programme to save the AS/400 . |
| 4 | We all know the prehistoric method of treating the dead , which obtains even to-day in the less enlightened parts of the country — the body hurriedly placed in the coffin , the packing with sawdust , and the necessarily precipitate screwing down of the lid . |
| 5 | they have this sort of automatic estimating system with key information just goes shooting out to the amazing so , yeah a wee bit about each one would be helpful |
| 6 | Parties then with noise , just imagine going up to the door where there are fifty or sixty seething people in there . |
| 7 | The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us . |
| 8 | But yesterday it was the shaky Government that desperately needed propping up behind the mass of steel at fortress Downing Street . |
| 9 | We go up the hill on the toboggans and you 're meant to use your brakes and one of us did , and we just went flying off into the raging snow . |
| 10 | We ca n't just go haring off into the city like that . |
| 11 | I have to go round to the wife of a man — a man ! my best friend ! — whom I have just left trogging off to the tube station ; I have to go round to his wife of six weeks and tell her I love her . |
| 12 | Or the black Broadway actor who always fears ending up in the gutter . |
| 13 | Always keep coming back to the point from which you start , and try to select other roads to follow . |
| 14 | Melodramatic examples , like Peter 's clawing up to F sharp on the phrase " We shall be free " while the chorus chants relentlessly on F natural ( Act Two scene one ) , or the foghorn 's mindless E flat against D on " the tide will turn " in the last scene , hardly need pointing out to the attentive listener . |
| 15 | That opinion is absolutely in line with that expressed by the people of Kincardine and Deeside who thoroughly rejected opting out at the ballot box . |
| 16 | Because you 're probably doubling doubling up on the recording . |
| 17 | Labour 's Adrian Longden proposed an amendment which also advocated spending up to the ‘ capping limit ’ . |
| 18 | He is often seen wandering around near the Marivent Palace at Illetas or dining in one of the stylish restaurants nearby . |
| 19 | That can often mean standing up for the client and criticising the system , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Free time now means catching up with the things they have missed out on in the past : novels by Michael Moorcock and Toni Morrison , the new Australian cinema , opera cassettes borrowed from the public library , gardening and fishing , weekend trips to the landscapes of their respective childhoods . |
| 21 | Marie , who is single , really enjoys mucking in with the lads . |
| 22 | So that really means going on to the Labour resolutions and the Liberal resolutions |
| 23 | But going beyond that seems inevitably to involve playing up to the rockier side of The Shamen . |
| 24 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 25 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 26 | People presently came flowing out of the door and spread between the gravestones . |
| 27 | Tabby immediately began nuzzling up against the frog in a very friendly way , unlike the other two cats who kept in the background , backs arched and humming frantically . |
| 28 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |
| 29 | It did n't seem right that Ray Doyle might never again come staggering out of the untidy bedroom , curly hair looking a totally dishevelled mess , eyes bleary , to find Bodie sprawled on the settee , bright and cheery and grinning . |
| 30 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to royal biographer Andrew Morton . |