Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 2 | Of course Elmer Rice 's play had been censored and toned down before coming to the screen but Photoplay still needed to ask whether ‘ the public really wants a true cross-section of life presented as it actually happens ’ . |
| 3 | This is reflected in Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act in the procedures laid down for dealing with the exclusion of pupils from school and with the appeals which might arise from exclusion . |
| 4 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 5 | leap in without looking at the detail of it , I think now the function heads namely you , |
| 6 | A method for toning down after concentrating on the outside of the body , while at the same time exercising the internal organs , was invented by the old Chinese masters . |
| 7 | Well , it 's ra , it 's set the the the the topic , the study , starts off by talking about the parable er , of the er , the prodigal son , and the prodigal son was , in these terms , rescued . |
| 8 | He was probably mixed up in disposing of the pictures stolen in that big robbery from the Duke of Suffolk 's place , and there 've been other things . |
| 9 | On one of them she was picked up for questioning by the Germans . |
| 10 | Bob is writing for a third ( ! ) attempt on his prostate gland , but seems to have got caught out by overspending on the part of the hospital involved , which has caused a delay in non-urgent ops . |
| 11 | His two main sponsors have dropped out of racing for the moment leaving him chasing a £3,000 shortfall . |
| 12 | The case came on for hearing at the beginning of April 1992 . |
| 13 | Statement is shot through with feeling in the long , passionately detailed account of the mutiny . |
| 14 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 15 | They were seen off after walking round the house to the front . |
| 16 | More awkward still , since Laura was not on board , he was obliged to lock up before going to the office , and had to wait on board , with his brief-case and umbrella , determinedly not listening , while Nenna went down to the saloon . |
| 17 | Rocastle has really messed up by talking to the press . |
| 18 | In her present sensitive frame of mind she did n't feel up to looking like the poor relation beside him , but then , she had no intention of going anywhere near him . |
| 19 | If the champagne bottle had survived she 'd probably be in that state anyway , and it would at least postpone the inevitable for a while ; she did n't feel up to coping with the consequences of her behaviour just yet . |
| 20 | Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all . |
| 21 | This would occupy a fraction of a second which would have to be made up by hurrying over the next group of semiquavers , and would sound breathless and hectic . |
| 22 | Eight girls , two boys and their teacher , all dead in the wreckage of a minibus , burned out after crashing into the back of a motorway maintenace lorry on the M-Forty . |
| 23 | She leaned on the wide sill , looking out with longing at the part of Gullholm visible from the window . |
| 24 | Yesterday 's card will be staged in full today and Royal Gait , not seen out since winning at the Festival in March , is due to contest the Bookmakers Hurdle ( 1.40 ) . |
| 25 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 26 | Finish off by tying with the hanging loose end , cut away the surplus , and tuck it up into the collar out of sight to leave a neat and tidy tie . |
| 27 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 28 | I's had quite a hang up about getting to the top of it . |
| 29 | As most of the time taken is used up in searching through the various models the speed of the system will be a trade-off between the range of speakers it can understand and the number of words in the vocabulary . |
| 30 | A Dispel Magic spell may be needed , or escaped characters may have to re-enter the room to help out with fighting within the room . |