Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 2 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
| 3 | I 'm not allowed to go jetting off to the Caribbean , that 's all . |
| 4 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 5 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 6 | He was breathless with the effort of clinging precariously to the limited footholds and it was time , he decided , to risk climbing down to the ground . |
| 7 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 8 | Five hundred lines to anyone caught sneaking in before the bell ! ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 11 | Exhilarated Ian wanted to try walking back without the balancing pole . |
| 12 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 13 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 14 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 15 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to controversial royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 16 | So much so that many people internal to Digital never bother venturing out into the big bad world of USENET for their kicks . |
| 17 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 18 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 19 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 20 | However , a tail-wheel is more convenient for ground handling , particularly as with these types of glider the tail is extremely heavy and awkward to lift when the glider needs turning around on the ground . |
| 21 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 22 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But in many circuits , significant source and load resistances will need factoring out from the upper and lower arm values respectively ( and scaled pro-rata ) , otherwise the implied accuracy will be false ) . |
| 25 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |
| 26 | My daughter 's idea of a good film is one where she starts crying round about the end of the queue for tickets . |
| 27 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 28 | ‘ I am not going to lose my credibility on this train by being caught coming out of the help 's bedroom . ’ |
| 29 | FAR from the crowded Second Division title race , Blackburn goalie Bobby Mimms loves coming back to the peace of his home village in North Yorkshire . |
| 30 | ( He says ( Perople like their creature comforts and will enjoy coming back to the hotel ) |