Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus , he 's sucking in air at the back and wuffing it out at the front . |
| 2 | The nineteenth century was also the era of the Great City , sucking in population from the countryside to staff factories , shops , and homes . |
| 3 | This broad , cobbled area , the main market place of the city , was packed with carts bringing in wine from the vintners , lawn for the cloth guilds , and vegetables packed high for the stalls and booths in the Poultry . |
| 4 | The erm , importance of monitoring procedures can not be over-stressed because enable , to enable us to actually find out if these er , arrangements are working properly we do have to monitor the arrangements that are in place , and we have to provide details of monitor important for the members ' benefit , er , explaining how the budget is er , is being spent , and also bringing in information about the number of assessments , the levels of assessments , and all the other aspects that er , that make a new system work . |
| 5 | Or tearing down part of the prison ? |
| 6 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition policy , had said on Aug. 30 that the Commission would consider opening up membership of the unified financial services market to members of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) ; he stressed , however , the need for reciprocal liberalization in those countries ( Switzerland and most of Scandinavia imposing tight limits on the extent of foreign shareholdings in their domestic companies ) . |
| 7 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 8 | Keeping up morale in the Falklands |
| 9 | AN MP is keeping up pressure on the Government to improve East Anglia 's coastal defences after last month 's surge tide which resulted in widespread flooding . |
| 10 | FROM Graham White come more photographs of Tamiami Airport , taken during the expensive mopping up operation after the terrible night of August 24 . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union gave appreciable assistance in cultivating a significant air strength in contrast to the United States , which concentrated solely on the army in the south , ruling out aid in the air and naval spheres . |
| 12 | Norway 's most eloquent campaigner against the Community is Anne Enger Lahnstein , leader of the Centre Party , which , like the anti-EC Socialist Left Party , is picking up support at the expense of Labour , which forms the minority government . |
| 13 | Once it was finished we went outside and swept round the entire barrack block in an extended line , picking up litter from the damp grass . |
| 14 | In view of the fact that eye testing is important in picking up illness in the elderly and that we are in the business of preventive medicine rather than treating illnesses when they occur , will my hon. Friend keep an open mind ? |
| 15 | Mr Bond said : ‘ There are 33 independent milkmen who are all helping out by picking up food around the town . |
| 16 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 17 | Art , picking up confidence from the decline of religion , announces its transcendence of the world ( and it lasts , it lasts ! art beats death ! ) , but this announcement is n't accessible to all , or where accessible is n't always inspiring or welcome . |
| 18 | In them it is concerned with picking up information about the timing and length of daylight . |
| 19 | With legislative elections due to be held the following year , de Gaulle knew that he might soon have to face a hostile majority committed to clawing back power from the president . |
| 20 | Fingers subconsciously searching out damage beneath the glossy surface , while he otherwise engages in conversation . |
| 21 | Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ |
| 22 | Frustrated at this set-back Azhag headed south , where the horde wreaked havoc , destroying the town of Forstich before turning back east through the Great Forest and into Ostermark once more . |
| 23 | Who could forget Bill Haley 's Comets , rolling on the floor with their guitars and saxes in the air , blaring out Rock Around the Clock ? |
| 24 | They were skirting Valletta and Floriana , and heading out south-east on the airport road . |
| 25 | By a curious paradox , the nuclear lobby has a vested interest in ensuring maximum coal burn in UK power plant as an alternative to stepping up output from the new generation of gas-fired power plant . |
| 26 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 27 | The tree roots act like a giant sponge when the rain falls , drawing up water from the ground which is then given off as vapour through the leaves . |
| 28 | Yet it is intriguing that on that day , he cut between Mary in the redoubt of her fells , puzzling over this ominous invasion of her feelings , and John-Augustus on the lake , drawing up char from the deep and cold lake , re-experiencing the failed innocence of his life . |
| 29 | Very red and frothy , frothy colour blood , okay , supposing I had er damaged the lining of the stomach , or perhaps I 've had an ulcer that I 've perforated , and I was coughing up blood from the stomach what colour might that be ? |
| 30 | So to find out how much you pay for , how much actual energy has been used up , you think it , again going back to the water , if we have a big tank full of water and we 're using it up , this time in terms of power , erm if we have something that 's using up water at the rate of say six gallons a minute and someone 's going to charge you for your water . |