Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 2 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 3 | It was not a historical accident that the sports in which blacks were overrepresented compared to their proportion in the general population were those demanding little in the way of equipment or facilities . |
| 4 | Scudamore interprets present-day embalming as ‘ a treatment consisting fundamentally of the injection of some suitable disinfecting preservative into the vascular system , augmented by the relieving of the blood from the superficial vein , and such cavity , cosmetic , and derma-surgery treatment necessary to achieve a pre-mortem appearance , aseptic condition and preservation ’ . |
| 5 | The type of frame you choose for your finished work is an entirely personal decision , based on your own likes and dislikes , but I would strongly suggest that you think about the type of frame you will be using right from the start of your work . |
| 6 | Because advertising revenue is now critical , a paper or TV channel catering successfully for the views of the poor or the unemployed would soon go bankrupt , whereas those meeting the minority tastes of the wealthy remain financially sound . |
| 7 | Goin' on about the seats all the time she was . |
| 8 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 9 | UNCITRAL likewise engages in widespread consultation , drawing widely on the expertise of practising specialists . |
| 10 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 11 | Arty was still asleep , one arm hanging loosely over the side . |
| 12 | Continue working up the graph , row by row , again knitting right on the right and left on the left . |
| 13 | Like Jesus , they were , after all , devout Jews , working and preaching wholly within the context of established Judaic tradition . |
| 14 | Ferguson marked his return by latching on to an Alan Main clearance to beat Murdoch to the jump on the edge of the box , and head in the fourth . |
| 15 | Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata . |
| 16 | Cornucopia : rabbits , hunched and private , loping slowly about the lawn in the moonlight ; a green frog , gleaming and sparkling in the dewy sunlit grass as it wiggled along some compelling migratory path ; squirrels — quick flashes of ginger and grey in the treetops , a sudden glimpse of bright beady eyes ; a mythical fox — dusky shadow and sinister snowprints . |
| 17 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 18 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 19 | The sea crashing on to the rocks by the Giant 's Causeway is the only similarity for Steve Parcell with his last parish , Bournemouth . |
| 20 | Other behavioural strategies included eating slowly in a room away from the kitchen , preparing all food thoroughly before starting to eat , rather than eating standing up during cooking . |
| 21 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 22 | Left : In the kitchen , Philip painted an impression of sunlight filtering on to the wall in a style reminiscent of a Hitchcock film |
| 23 | Well you probably lose a bit , it 's not sticking properly to the wall . |
| 24 | She soon discovered that by stepping on to the glove she had the food literally at her feet . |
| 25 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 26 | She alighted after him , and she crossed the footbridge too , but delayed stepping on to the platform until the train for Waterloo came in . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Harlots , ’ replied Ellen repressively , waiting until the wagon was some distance ahead before stepping on to the bridge . |
| 29 | He stood by the fireplace , gazing despairingly at the mouthpiece of the telephone . |
| 30 | He ran aside , firing upward on the run . |