Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Scotland met Germany in Norkopping during the European Championship last summer , we had 14 corner kicks and they had two . |
| 2 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 3 | Umpires Barry Dudleston and John Holder — the man who reported England for tampering with the ball on the same ground against West Indies last year — changed the ball because it had been suspiciously scuffed . |
| 4 | They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire . |
| 5 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 6 | The original plan did not envisage a commercial use , he told Reuter after speaking at the conference . |
| 7 | Only the Abdication had prevented Baldwin from going at the end of 1936 . |
| 8 | She had accused Luke of acting in the most despicable way possible , so what hope was there that he would ever accept her apologies ? |
| 9 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |
| 10 | Concern for the role of the environment came from those naturalists who followed Humboldt in searching for the interactions between the physical and the organic realms . |
| 11 | The Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet has joined Greenpeace in calling for the project to be halted . |
| 12 | Lord 's secretly warned Surrey in writing at the end of the 1991 season . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , at the risk of confirming suspicions that he was a political reactionary , he scrupulously avoided discussion of internal French politics ( except to criticize Vichy for collaborating with the Germans ) . |
| 14 | Again and again , Tracy upstaged Gable by returning from the point of death with a weak smile until Gable finally dropped Tracy and yelled , ‘ Die , goddammit , Spence ! |
| 15 | But none of these horrors had dissuaded Godolphin from travelling in the Reconciled Dominions . |
| 16 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 17 | Hitler 's war deprived Wooderson of going into the Olympic arena in Helsinki in 1940 as a hot favourite for the 1500 metres ; Budd 's natural progression was hindered by her country 's policy of apartheid . |
| 18 | The troublesome lamps flank the couch , where constituents sit and watch their congressman appear and disappear ; and the only thing that saved Orton from rushing to the floor to cast phantom votes when his clock buzzer went off was the fall-back alarm system , a personal bleeper . |
| 19 | Only the war saved Joyce from declining into the crankiness and obscurity of those who , for instance , demanded in small newspaper advertisements and at Speakers ' Corner why the bishops refused to open Joanna Southcott 's box . |
| 20 | The details of this action are rather scant , but Domesday Book ( see below ) showed a distinct drop in recorded values along a line of country which suggests that the Normans moved quickly to subdue Lewes and then marched westwards to join up with secondary Norman forces landing in the Selsey area to take Chichester before moving towards the Saxon treasury at Winchester . |
| 21 | Peter 's attempt to stop Jesus from going to the cross was not his only mistake . |
| 22 | He pulled the drapes back , and it helped a little — the mixed twilight and yellow sodium light would at least be enough to prevent Alison from falling over the bag in the middle of the floor . |
| 23 | A few years later , visiting Moscow after passing through the Ukraine during the great famine , I was asked , ‘ How did North America expand west , but we have failed to expand east ? ’ |
| 24 | The Kenyan Amateur Athletic Association barred Ngugi from competing in the national cross-country championships , which are used to select the team for the world championships in Spain on 28 March , at the weekend . |
| 25 | She was delighted rather than otherwise to have an extra visitor , and she chattered throughout the excellent dinner , preventing Robbie from concentrating on the fascinating conversation going on between Fen and the rector . |