Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After all , fitzAlan had n't seemed to worry about exposing her to the elements . |
| 2 | But I 'm sure it was much more important to pave over history and build this — this autostrada than to worry about preserving something like the Appian Way ! ’ |
| 3 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 4 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 5 | All non-productive wood must be cut out , and the skill lies in deciding which of the many buds are wood buds and which are fruit buds , and then in deciding which of the wood buds are likely to produce the most fruit buds . |
| 6 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 7 | ‘ As daylight , ’ she snapped , before giving a heavy sigh as she realised that , yet again , the horrid man had succeeded in putting her in the wrong . |
| 8 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 9 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 10 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 11 | Wimpol remains totally committed to supporting you in the development of your career and , through suitable training , to ensuring that you play a full part in the company 's continued growth . |
| 12 | In the past , such a sweeping move would have taken the form of a peremptory decree , but the new parliament is committed to doing everything by the rules . |
| 13 | We may want to make the point that if we are to be committed to doing something about the global warming of the ozone layer then we will need to say when we will do it by . |
| 14 | Michael Landy 's ‘ Closing Down Sale ’ at Karsten Schubert ( to 30 May ) is his most important exhibition since ‘ Market ’ was installed at Building One in the autumn of 1990 . |
| 15 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 16 | You can usually route hot and cold supply pipes to wherever you want by running them underneath the floorboards , the bath or around the perimeter of the room , hiding them with a low box plinth , which could also be an ideal place to store bathroom bottles . |
| 17 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 18 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 19 | So we hid it somewhere really good , where nobody 'd think of looking ! — Anyway , it do n't matter about putting it in the bank now , does it ? |
| 20 | Our instincts tell us to beware of abandoning ourselves to the care of someone else . |
| 21 | The only provision of Order 11 under which leave might be given was that dealing with the case where ‘ in the action begun by the writ an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do or refrain from doing anything within the jurisdiction … |
| 22 | The imposition of a curriculum from above will not mean , if assurance given by politicians is to be believed , that teachers will be prevented from delivering it in the way they think most appropriate . |
| 23 | When Geoffrey of Brittany was buried it was said that Philip had been forcibly prevented from throwing himself into the grave to join his friend . |
| 24 | He had been ‘ much pleased ’ with the suggestion , ‘ but was deterr 'd from improving it by the greatness of the subject … |
| 25 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 26 | How did the company benefit from having me on the staff ? |
| 27 | The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves . |
| 28 | Some two hours later the whole party sat , exhausted and silent , in deckchairs on the terrace of Sven Hjerson 's hotel , sipping half-heartedly at cups of abominable tea and looking without seeing anything at the wide sweep of the Bay of Naples spread out far below them . |
| 29 | especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found . |
| 30 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |