Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an eight hour [ night ] patrol , it was only to be expected that the policeman would prefer resting to hanging around the courts waiting to bring petty offenders to book . |
| 2 | However , she said she would now prefer to try to cope without coming to the hospital but would also said she was sure she would not take a further overdose . |
| 3 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 4 | Chiang tried to escape by running up the mountain , and a pavilion has been built to mark the place where he tried to hide in a crevice before he was caught . |
| 5 | In the Companies Act 1981 an option was given for certain smaller companies ( provided they are not public companies ) to produce modified or shortened accounts for filing with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 6 | One kind of ray , the manta , has reverted to swimming in the surface waters . |
| 7 | He nevertheless insists that the " range of plausible " and " scale of valid " interpretations is constrained by the theory to which he adheres , although argument is admissible and he himself has progressed in understanding within the constraints imposed by the theory ( rejecting the PATH schema in favour of the BALANCE one ) . |
| 8 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 9 | A successful group of sponges has taken to boring into the shells of other organisms . |
| 10 | Sunday , BBC1 , 9.35pm LADY CHATTERLEY has taken to walking in the woods in episode two of this lavish adaptation of D H Lawrence 's love story . |
| 11 | Health Secretary , Kenneth Clarke has insisted in continuing with the case , arguing that the government risked establishing a dangerous precedent if it paid compensation when the N H S was not to blame . |
| 12 | ACT include two players in their squad who are no strangers to Scotland — centre Jim Swan who has returned after playing in the junior teams at Gala , and flanker Mark McInnes , who toured with the Wallabies to Canada and France in 1989 and spent some time with Peebles . |
| 13 | Any consideration of the Labour Party concern to change the kind of democracy on offer to the people within a new British constitution has to begin by attending to the battles within the Labour Party and to the resulting changes that have occurred in the constitution of the party . |
| 14 | In Darcy 's Utopia we will make do with listening to the radio . |
| 15 | Those who do no have the time to go to a La Scala performance or are visiting out of season , must make do with going to the theatre museum ; this normally , but not always , includes a trip to the auditorium . |
| 16 | The loss of reformist energy on the domestic front was another potential problem ( as de Gaulle seemed to acknowledge in returning to the old theme of participation in 1966 – 67 ) . |
| 17 | He was playing in a match at Windsor Great Park when , after stretching for a ball , he was seen to wince before going to the side of the field to lie down . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd dreamt of coming near the mountains and the sea and were out for a drive one Sunday afternoon with that idea in the back of our minds . |
| 19 | The girl spent a long time wondering whether she could pluck up courage to mention she 'd thought of going to the Swimming Gala if her mother really felt there was nothing she could do . |
| 20 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 21 | Essentially the message is that nobody knows how far community care can be made to stretch without snapping under the strain . |
| 22 | DEC has decided to withdraw from exhibiting at the London Open Systems Show the first week in November , saying that it is worried about lack of support for the event . |
| 23 | Neither landlord nor state official relished resorting to calling in the military whose help would not be given gratis . |
| 24 | It is by no means uncommon for exploratory social research in an area where little work has been done to begin by looking at the characteristics of people involved . |
| 25 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |
| 26 | He intends to concentrate on writing for the next year , with a summer break to make an irreverent beginner 's Guide to Opera , co-written with his colleague Paul Whitehouse . |
| 27 | My understanding from your letter of [ Date ] is that I am jointly instructed by the vendor , Mr D Smith , and the purchasers ( as set out in the Agreement between the parties dated [ Date ] ) and that I am requested to certify in writing to the parties , the value , in my opinion , of Mr D Smith 's shares at [ Date ] . |
| 28 | SAVE began by writing to the Department of Transport setting out the importance of the park , only to be told that a large number of representations had been made in favour of the proposed route . |
| 29 | A majority of those attending the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party had favoured the abolition of the death penalty ; and the strength of their feeling on this issue was such that it was most unlikely that they could be persuaded to refrain from voting for the amendment . |
| 30 | She was heard to pause before going into the bathroom , the latch of which gave its distinctive click . |