Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind-sucker is similar to the crib-biter , but manages to swallow air without latching on to any object so the teeth do not suffer abnormal and excessive wear . |
| 2 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 3 | I found myself hanging on to that spirit , first at the office of Policia de Investigationes del Peru ( motto : ‘ Honor y Lealtad ’ ) where it was never the same man on my case . |
| 4 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 5 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 6 | And we 're hanging on to each other trying to get on the plane . |
| 7 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 8 | I could n't trust the boots , and was hanging on to any hold . |
| 9 | A social worker can support the family in hanging on through this pain , to recognise the major part still to be played . |
| 10 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 11 | A list structure joins a sequence of data elements by including along with each data element a pointer , which is itself a field , relating to the next data element in the list . |
| 12 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 13 | ‘ For the sake of her memory I would n't have hesitated to bring you crashing down from that pedestal if I 'd discovered anything damning about you . ’ |
| 14 | The message of Opportunity 2000 — the business-led initiative to get more women into top management by the year 2000 is not filtering down to many line managers , according to the campaign 's first year report . |
| 15 | Unfortunately Lady le Fleming 's agent appeared to take Leathart 's advice a little too literally and caused great concern to the partners by proposing a covenant binding them to prevent " all water " from filtering down into any part of the mine below Deep Level . |
| 16 | For 15 years he served as warehouse foreman before stepping down from that position to take responsibility of the new pre-mix plant . |
| 17 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 18 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 19 | ‘ And I just do n't see the point of pressing on through that muck . ’ |
| 20 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 21 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
| 22 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 23 | but the strong impression I had is walking over the hill from Kettleborough where the gun club now is walking down into this valley and seeing that view of this little end of the village nestling in the hollow and I can remember feeling a extraordinarily strong sensation that I could easily live there |
| 24 | If Candy realised the game Adam was playing , she would go storming in with all guns blazing , never stopping to think of the possible consequences , all her protective instincts roused in defence of her best friend . |
| 25 | You have to produce a return transatlantic ticket and your passport both when buying the airpass and when checking in for each flight . |
| 26 | Then he 'll be walking in with this quiz an |
| 27 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 28 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 29 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 30 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |