Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One kind of ray , the manta , has reverted to swimming in the surface waters . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A successful group of sponges has taken to boring into the shells of other organisms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |
| 12 | Provided that all the controls can be locked to prevent them getting damaged by slamming against the stops , parking the aircraft facing down wind will be safest , because then the wing is meeting the airflow at a negative angle . |
| 13 | Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him . |
| 14 | The amount of trust we feel justified in placing on the work done for us is a measure of both the moral status of the occupation and of the work performance we can expect . |
| 15 | BRITTEN 'S Miss Wordsworth , primmest of Suffolk schoolma'ms , would no doubt have balked at setting before the public eye any but her most promising music pupils . |
| 16 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 17 | In fact , the individual migrants who participate in this urban migration manage to generate income which is more attractive to them than the income they would have earned by remaining in the rural areas . |
| 18 | Jim must have felt like accelerating to the point of wheelspin but restrained himself and drove sedately to the Hungarian post . |
| 19 | Furious at the strong wave of protectiveness that washed over him , despite all his suspicions , Guy bit out a curse that , in normal circumstances , he would n't have dreamed of using in the hearing of a woman . |
| 20 | A bird breeder has been jailed for four years after stolen rare birds were found wrapped in sacking in the boot of his car . |
| 21 | If he had never seen that leaflet pinned up on the Catholic Society notice-board at college , he would never have dreamt of participating in the pilgrimage . |
| 22 | Among children , 61% admit to having experimented with smoking by the age of 15 . |
| 23 | Had he known that the sinecure into which he had expected to step was but a chimera , he would have opted for staying in the army which had , in fact , suited him . |
| 24 | On Sept. 4 , 5 and 7 , because of the absence of deputies from Khodjent , there was no quorum to confirm a Sept. 2 resolution by the Supreme Soviet Presidium on removing Nabiyev from power , Nabiyev having gone into hiding at the end of August after demonstrators invaded the Presidential Palace , demanding his resignation . |
| 25 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 26 | Three years ago they would have hesitated before speaking against the Seven ; now — however covertly — they sanctioned armed rebellion . |
| 27 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |
| 28 | Before her conversion , she would doubtless have insisted on waiting for the results of a number of studies being conducted by an international panel on climatic change set up by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environmental Programme . |
| 29 | England 's players had a lazy rest day today , many of them reporting that they felt drained by playing in the heat and humidity of the first three days . |
| 30 | These restriction fragments were end-labelled and used in GMSA to study DNA bending induced by binding of the GST-pou[c] fusion protein to the abovementioned motifs . |