Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But despite all the authorities ' attempts to pretend that all goes well , the birthday celebrations are moving forward in the shadow of a public mood of national crisis , dramatised by the tens of thousands of East Germans struggling to flee to the West in recent weeks . |
| 2 | He repeated the Comintern formula that " the united front can only be built up from below , by the workers themselves , not as a corrupt bargain of the reformist leaders and disorganisers of the struggle endeavouring to buy off the criticism of the revolutionaries , but as the solid class front of the workers " . |
| 3 | The sound of a neck snapping echoed around the room . |
| 4 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |
| 5 | Objectors and supporters wanting to speak at the inquiry were asked to complete forms listing the witnesses they intended calling and roughly how long each piece of evidence would take . |
| 6 | My advice to readers wanting to know about the status of support groups for '558 is that there is no officially-recognised , or even tolerated , body . |
| 7 | ‘ I look sideways these days when I see the umpires waiting to go onto the ground and then looking at every blade of grass . |
| 8 | What we are doing is what is being done er in the market generally there is nothing unique about British Airways position in this regard , in the event the European commission er should find against er our interest in this respect er they are in effect going to find against the interest er of the er European airlines as a whole , and that would be very detrimental to the interest of European business and travellers . |
| 9 | It was only when he turned to the more immediate problem of finding a way through the waste of mud that Zen noticed the figure lying slumped against the wall . |
| 10 | The company will pay the greater of the sum insured or the total sale value of the units remaining allocated to the account and the account will cease on the death or earlier permanent disability of Melvin or the death or earlier permanent disability of Lisa . |
| 11 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 12 | £65/$90 The volume covering the American drawings from the 2,000-strong Lehman holding housed in the Met. |
| 13 | I mean Jason and Kylie getting married at the age of seventeen or something and then like two months later getting and one of them moving to Tasmania . |
| 14 | Readers wishing to contribute to the Wildlife Hospital Appeal can ring Freefone 0800 400478 to donate by Access or Visa card , or send a cheque , payable to the RSPCA , to . |
| 15 | G. Thomas Horsley ( page 52 ) saw industry starting to grow in the region . |
| 16 | In the year 1531 , an attempt had been made to poison Fisher whilst at his palace at Lambeth , the attempt failing owing to the bishop being unable to take food , but 19 people died and others were taken seriously ill . |
| 17 | Dig in when you can feel flower heads starting to form at the base . |
| 18 | Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) were among the few relief organizations continuing to operate in the town . |
| 19 | Ideally , of course , there should be the choice , especially for islanders having to work on the mainland who want to come home for the weekend . |
| 20 | Er it might be putting a sign up on the , on the fence saying beware of the dog , it might be having a gravel drive . |
| 21 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 22 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 23 | As one moves from the liberal state of competitive capitalism to the totalitarian state of monopoly capitalism in crisis , the state becomes more bureaucratized , the extent of bureaucratization varying according to the form of regime and the relationship between state apparatuses . |
| 24 | Aptitude tsting developed from the realisation that a single IQ score was a rather rude measure which obscured an individual 's varying underlying abilities ; for example , an individual may score high on a verbal subtest of an intelligence scale and low on a numerical subtest or vice versa . |
| 25 | The mist was now so dense it was more like a sea fog , the humidity very high and the sweat dripping from my forehead as I leaned forward , my eyes straining to see through the murk . |
| 26 | A policeman ran past the poet trying to get to the crowd before it became an unruly mob . |
| 27 | ‘ People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street . ’ |
| 28 | But it was music and shapes trying to move with the music . |
| 29 | Many of the East Germans assumed West Germany had again dug into its pocket to ‘ buy out ’ East Germans seeking to come to the West . |
| 30 | Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI . |