Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undergraduate pupils of Jack 's throughout the middle years of the 1930s got used to passing through the outer drawing-room of his rooms at Magdalen where sat the mysterious figure of Captain Lewis , typing with two fingers on an ancient black portable . |
| 2 | I countered this by intermixing with the transoxides . |
| 3 | When it had been obtained program crashes occurred due to triggering of the consistency check traps . |
| 4 | They begin with simple movement exercises such as standing with the hands on the hips and very slowly rotating the head from right to left , then reversing the procedure . |
| 5 | He also said there was as much chance of a player becoming injured by falling down the stairs as playing for Essex , but admitted there was a conflict of interest which he hoped to resolve in the very near future . |
| 6 | Chapters 2 through 16 introduce concepts and techniques found useful in dealing with the questions outlined above and describe some of the relevant aspects of the company functions forming the interfaces . |
| 7 | They urged Prime Minister Miklós Németh to reveal who had been privy to the intelligence information , and called for the dismissal of Interior Minister István Horváth ; they stopped short of calling for the government 's resignation , however , saying that the country needed stability before the elections . |
| 8 | Nine out of ten of the 2/2 Independent Company were from the dry country districts of Western Australia , used to living in the bush , butchering their own meat , and improvising motor repairs — skills they found essential in living off the country in Timor and during their first year or so as an Independent Company stationed 250 miles ( 400km ) south of Darwin in the little town of Katherine with its corrugated buildings , its one hotel and two stores . |
| 9 | Over 330 other enterprises , employing over 80,000 people , had been closed because they were deemed incapable of surviving in the free market . |
| 10 | The beetle children got bored with peering into the distance . |
| 11 | Once you are comfortable reading at a certain pace , you can begin to move the pointer a little more quickly ; your eyes will soon grow used to travelling along the lines at the new rate . |
| 12 | Lymphocytes that enter the site could achieve this by competing with the invader , thereby lowering the level of nutrients and raising the level of the products of metabolism locally , for example making the environment more acid . |
| 13 | They could do this by interfering with the transport of NGF along the fibre ; as in this experiment , the application of extra NGF directly on the cell body could help to stop the damage . |
| 14 | The proposals in the White Paper would prevent this from happening in the future . |
| 15 | Sociologists chopped off childhood and most of adulthood from their interviews , and oral historians neatly matched this by chopping off the whole later life . |
| 16 | John 's on folders I mean would you feel comfortable in working in the same group as him ? |
| 17 | It is often possible to restrict these by cutting into the ground with a spade along the face of the hedge , doing one side at a time in alternate years . |
| 18 | ‘ Every customer who has bought our products over the last year can feel good about helping towards the success of this campaign ’ said Jonathan Harper Hill , brand manager for the Montagne Jeunesse range . |
| 19 | She wrote to us in July , and we were delighted to hear from her , but she is such a roamer that I do n't feel confident in replying to the address she gave then . |
| 20 | They may feel responsible for adding to the dead person 's problems or may feel that if they had been more alert they would have noticed their friend 's or relative 's distress . |
| 21 | welcome short of writing on the ma t — You should of seen me |
| 22 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 23 | Such excursions spelled glamour and excitement for Fergie , something that the duke seemed incapable of providing at the time . |
| 24 | All the while , the eggs arc developing ready for laying by the lochside in May . |
| 25 | Nothing he ever wrote came near to conveying to the reader the way the moor really was or the way he felt about it . |
| 26 | And I was surprised at how easily my eyes became accustomed to seeing in the light of the head torch . |
| 27 | British customers have got used to looking for the date stamp on goods so that they can identify the ‘ life ’ of a product . |
| 28 | We can see this by looking at the hydrogenation of cyclohexene . |
| 29 | All except two of these forty women do their ‘ big ’ shopping once a week — that is , stocking up on goods like sugar , flour , etc. — and it is customary to combine this with shopping for the weekend . |
| 30 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |