Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 2 | Tables listing 60 endowment companies published in the periodical Planned Savings show that the top performers for endowment policies paying out at the end of 1990 could do anything up to twice as well as companies at the bottom of the table . |
| 3 | Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship . |
| 4 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 5 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 6 | Police even stopped one souvenir hunter cycling off with the ship 's compass tucked under his arm . |
| 7 | In actual fact the er farmer put the planning application in to hold this market every week really refused it outright saying it 's a very sensitive area of Green belt and we did n't want two hundred er stalls there every Sunday on the car park coming out of the road and everything else . |
| 8 | Along the western edge of the valley were tumbling glaciers and high rock ramparts sweeping up from the great moraines and scree slopes to culminate in lofty , snowcapped summits . |
| 9 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |
| 10 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 11 | We had a business man on Question Time who was saying that five hundred million pound fraud going on in the benefits , right ? |
| 12 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 13 | The route has now taken a bit of hammering with a Yugoslav bagging the third ascent and Sean Myles and Andy Pollitt steaming in for the fourth and fifth ascents soon afterwards . |
| 14 | Surely not all that protein synthesis going on in the absence of the inhibitor could be about learning and memory ; some other fundamental aspects of behaviour must be affected ? |
| 15 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 16 | Half-back Mike Ford sent Ellery Hanley racing through for the opening try . |
| 17 | It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east . |
| 18 | It 's the nicest site around and from the surrounding countryside you 'd have seen the white mounds of the burial sites standing out against the sky , right against the heavens |
| 19 | Hari stood in Goat Street staring up at the facade of the old theatre and swallowed hard , trying to pluck up enough courage to walk into the ornate portico . |
| 20 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 21 | This is very much in demand , with so many credit card thefts going on at the moment . " |
| 22 | He drifted beyond a coral head jutting out from the gap 's wall and took six deep breaths to hyperventilate his lungs before piking . |
| 23 | She stared at the car lights going by on the ceiling and thought about her Diary and wondered how much they would pay her for it . |
| 24 | When pressed she also said she remembered catching a glimpse of David Parkin going out of the room . |
| 25 | And , although he was halted on the line , Cambridge retained possession , Flood sending Richard Batstone hurtling in on the left for a try that Davies converted . |
| 26 | To the west across the valley there was a fine view of the easy-angled slopes of the Hinku Nup glacier leading up to the Mingbo La ( 5817m ) . |
| 27 | And Super Kick off , the best game going out er , the best football game going out on the all computers ! |
| 28 | ‘ Going about , ’ he shouted and watched in amazement the crazed proficiency of the little cocaine addict leaping back into the cockpit to winch the genoa sheet in . |
| 29 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 30 | It is possible to find the origin of the synapses ending on cells of the type Hubel and Wiesel recorded from , and it is an amazing fact that 80 per cent or more of their excitatory input comes from other cortical cells , and less than 20 per cent from the nerve fibres coming up from the eye . |