Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 2 | The administrators-of the Modular Course , particularly Watson , realized early that sustainable course quality depends crucially upon relevant feedback and that course development strategies based upon relevant evidence receive readier acceptance from staff than strategies deriving their credibility from the perceived wisdom of management . |
| 3 | It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type . |
| 4 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 5 | The early tackles inclined towards brutality , however , were largely perpetrated by Liverpool , with Paul Stewart announcing his return to the side with a crunching tackle on Watts . |
| 6 | With Brando and Dean mumbling their way through the currently most talked about pictures , it was very much in vogue , passionately discussed and used among the younger actors . |
| 7 | A pensioner walking his dog on the other side of the street quickened his pace , obviously not wanting to be there when the men in white coats came for me . |
| 8 | There were workmen on the scaffolding and , down at the bottom , a small boat nudging its way along the length of the works . |
| 9 | They stood before it in perplexity , Edward banging his head against the plastic hood , and tried to work out what to do from the illustrative diagram shown , like foreign tourists . |
| 10 | Fran forced herself to sound cool and friendly , to betray no hint of the fear twisting her heart at the thought of what she might discover . |
| 11 | Suddenly , I see a boat weaving its way between the improbable pink granite rocks and I experience both relief and excitement . |
| 12 | We started our 1964 test with the words : ‘ Sun-capped Dolomites and the distant roar and squeal of one of the works rally cars scrambling its way up the Gavia Pass — this is perhaps the image that some people have of the big Austin-Healey at work . |
| 13 | The prospect of another delay prompted the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , to write to Mr Lang expressing his disappointment at the postponement . |
| 14 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 15 | The way we have chosen the symbols T and S also means , conveniently , that trajectories threading their way through the top face of the box B according to some sequence of Ts and Ss , make the same sequence of passes through the tubes , T and S. |
| 16 | As she passed the vicarage she was startled to see Faustina picking her way along the front wall with a palm cross in her mouth . |
| 17 | Being Saturday , there were a number of burly walkers picking their way over the granite from both directions which , unlike the presence of the bermuda-shorted brigade puffing their way up the other side of Ben Nevis , was curiously comforting . |
| 18 | The function of adjudication is the determination of the rights and duties of the parties presenting their dispute to the tribunal . |
| 19 | The Sergeant and Corporal leading our bit of the search party were out of earshot . |
| 20 | Being Saturday , there were a number of burly walkers picking their way over the granite from both directions which , unlike the presence of the bermuda-shorted brigade puffing their way up the other side of Ben Nevis , was curiously comforting . |
| 21 | Up to 1988 life assurance companies were gaining ground on pension funds , with individual life assurance premiums doubling their share of the personal savings market to 1988 . |
| 22 | His mother sat beside him in the dock holding his hand throughout the short hearing . |
| 23 | It was also decided that the Master , Wardens and Assistants should pay for a key giving them access to the Garden . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a way of future proofing our investment in the existing technology . ’ |
| 25 | And in an effort to keep up with the rival performance claims of manufacturers running its database for the purposes of TPC-A and TPC-B benchmarking the company has put together a comparison table : |
| 26 | The six clients attending our group at the Bristol Eating Disorder Clinic had been referred by their GPs . |
| 27 | There are lots of new opportunities coming your way in the year ahead , but you must move quickly to take advantage of them or unscrupulous colleagues and rivals will get there before you . |
| 28 | There are lots of new opportunities coming your way in the year ahead , but you must move quickly to take advantage of them or unscrupulous colleagues and rivals will get there before you . |
| 29 | Aunt Tossie pushed her chair away from the tea table and reached for her latest square of needlework — a parrot clutching its way up the husky stem of a palm tree . |
| 30 | Data winging its way across the Atlantic or Pacific instead of just from one side of the office to the other may suggest a slower response to enquiries , but Mr Scully says there is no perceptible delay . |