Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What excuse could I make for going out into the garden ? " |
| 2 | Foster was punished for kicking out at the stumps during a frustrating spell at Old Trafford on Thursday . |
| 3 | But before he thinks about drifting off to the sun , Biggins wants another taste of cup glory . |
| 4 | At their first meeting , Berenson is described as ‘ a gentleman with a reddish beard ’ ; apologising for turning up at the artist 's studio unannounced , he offered the excuse that he was ‘ the person who bought all your pictures from Torrini ’ ( an antique dealer with whom Joni placed his first works for sale ) . |
| 5 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 6 | The man so often pilloried for fouling up on the big occasion was determined to make no mistake this time , racing to the front immediately to keep out of trouble and defying his opponents to get past . |
| 7 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 8 | Forget about strolling down to the shops to get a newspaper or sauntering in the park with the family on Sundays . |
| 9 | Half listening , half occupied with looking out of the open window at a flock of rooks riding in circles on the breeze , Melissa was vaguely aware of a succession of faint bumping noises in the distance , followed by returning footsteps . |
| 10 | Erikson suggests that at different phases of life an individual faces a particular psycho-social problem which needs to be resolved before moving on to the next phase . |
| 11 | As a general rule , the younger you are , the more likely you are to benefit from changing over to the full rate . |
| 12 | While Raybestos had succeeded in carrying on despite the intense opposition of two communities , it was unable to survive the actions of its own workers fighting the hazards of asbestos at the point of production . |
| 13 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 14 | He looked up as Corbett entered , smiled and half rose before slumping back into the seat again as if he really could not be bothered . |
| 15 | Jumpman lives is another excellent game from Apogee which gives you the arcade action of video games combined with the brain teasing problems to be solved before carrying on to the next stage . |
| 16 | Both are under the greatest attack from a government committed to drawing back from the welfare state . |
| 17 | if it is favourable you obviously benefit by sailing in it , otherwise you should concentrate on keeping out of the flow . |
| 18 | I did n't understand Ward 's behaviour , so I just concentrated on getting out of the city as fast as I could . |
| 19 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 20 | Some German women are up in arms , No thank you , they say to going back to the role of mothers and home builders . |
| 21 | He had been pacing the room with slow majestic energy ending by peering down through the venetian blind at Madison below . |
| 22 | This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest . |
| 23 | Despite what Dane had said about facing up to the ghosts in her past and laying them to rest , it seemed she was still to be haunted by them . |
| 24 | Any weaknesses were determinedly removed , settings were constantly corrected , refinements were built in , until the day came for handing over to the RNLI — Wednesday 15 May 1991 . |
| 25 | Bowen staged an escape while being brought to court in December last year , Mark Williams is in hospital after becoming ill during the trial and Bush is still being sought after breaking out of the court last week with four of the other accused . |
| 26 | They speak of opting out in the primary , secondary and further education sectors ; as for social services , they speak of monitoring and enabling rather than providing . |
| 27 | Do you often feel like dozing off during the day when you need to be awake ? |
| 28 | When you keep getting hit on the nose you do n't feel like getting back into the ring . ’ |
| 29 | It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea . |
| 30 | Twenty four year old builder Ian Baxter , from Tilehurst in Reading , threatened to slice up the driver of a petrol tanker with a builder 's grinder when prevented from filling up at the Blewberry Service Station in Oxfordshire ; he hit the driver with the grinder , knocking out two of his teeth . |