Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United Distillers ' 80 different blends of Scotch whisky , each using up to 40 malt and grain whiskies , are bottled at facilities located in Scotland 's central belt . |
| 2 | I was chronically frustrated by the city 's killing of time : all those coffees and slow pints , all that hanging about for other people . |
| 3 | It is already clear , though , that cosying up to each other involves sizeable risks for both AT&T and the unions . |
| 4 | You have to be in control on the roads , and you ca n't do that ambling along with loose reins . |
| 5 | Make better use of your base cabinets by fixing slide-out towel racks to the doors , and by installing swivel storage shelves to do away with all that groping around for things at the back . |
| 6 | For instance , of the 68 such buildings at West Stow , six had been used for weaving , some producing up to 100 loomweights used to tension the warp-threads of an upright loom ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 7 | These reveal that TSP concentrations have halved since the 1960s. with the downward trend showing some levelling off during the 1980s ( figure 8.7 ) . |
| 8 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
| 9 | All of this racketing around with has-beens and yet-to-bes , filming on rented sets in disused warehouses , ought to have been doomed to failure , even laughed off the screen . |
| 10 | They we were half riding , half pushing up into the mountains . |
| 11 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 12 | The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's . |
| 13 | Almost half of Edward 's sede vacante presentations were retrospective , some dating back to his grandfather 's reign , and most being based on fictitious entitlement ; considerable temptations were open to unscrupulous candidates , armed with dubious history , to challenge the rights of sitting tenants . |
| 14 | Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts , some dating back to the tenth century . |
| 15 | Most of the alleged incidents occurred during 1985–89 , with some dating back to the late 1970s . |
| 16 | Historic bells including some dating back to Henry VIII 's reign are to go on show at the Ryedale Folk Museum , Hutton-le-Hole near Kirkbymoorside from tomorrow . |
| 17 | They include some dating back to Emperor Septimius Severus who once ruled York . |
| 18 | This smoothing over of social and historical differences can turn discourse analyses ' political implications from productive ambiguity , to complete opacity . |
| 19 | At some point in the evolution of life on our earth , this ganging up of mutually compatible replicators began to be formalized in the creation of discrete vehicles — cells and , later , many-celled bodies . |
| 20 | A good many had worked there for years , some going back to the days of her grandfather . |
| 21 | The conditions are made up of a myriad of separate agreements , some going back to the 1920s . |
| 22 | At each stage of their return to the sea , they became specialised to their particular habitat , some going back into freshwater rivers , others frequenting shallow coastal waters or the deep oceans . |
| 23 | there 's very few going in to coffee because of the cold in the |
| 24 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 25 | We 're going to , we 've , we 've got this going down to for three weeks , you know next weekend or the weekend afterwards , and we do n't keep getting appointments , see I 'm gon na keep ringing him up and pestering him and saying |
| 26 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 27 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 28 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 29 | But I was dead sure that the last item would take some getting round to . |
| 30 | Tithonus creates a sense of emotional anguish by Tennyson 's use of inversion between lines five and six , ‘ Me only cruel immortality/consumes ’ : This breaking up of the main image of the poem suggests that Tithonus has been captured by immortality . |