Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier rate cuts are beginning to filter through the economy and the retail trade is making optimistic noises about shoppers coming back to the High Street . |
| 2 | My helpers borrowed an old flatbed truck from a farmer , along with two dozen squared bales of hay which they arranged as steps leading up to the truck . |
| 3 | ( ’ Like' for retributivists meaning alike in the intuitively appealing sense of ‘ similarly deserving ’ . ) |
| 4 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 5 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 6 | There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign . |
| 7 | Any tendency to increase the ratio of surface area to weight would help , for example flaps of skin growing out in the angles of joints . |
| 8 | I turn to see Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare standing theatrically on the mezzanine above , barking into a mobile phone . |
| 9 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 10 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 11 | Set on a hilltop , the old town is surrounded by seven rows of ramparts leading up to the bastion and cathedral at the summit . |
| 12 | As they moved along the route she became aware of birds singing in the trees , and of sheep grazing peacefully in the fields . |
| 13 | The fellow grinned , his yellow stumps of teeth shining garishly in the poor light . |
| 14 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 15 | Not raising her head , nor even starting , at the sudden clamour of birds squabbling out in the clearing . |
| 16 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 17 | In Al Ain , in this little patch of paradise blossoming lushly from the fertiliser of a world petroleum market , there was no problem . |
| 18 | Once , in the winter of 1983 , the snow had drifted up to ten feet around the prison walls ; teams of prisoners working virtually round the clock had been unable to keep open the single road that linked Whitely with the outside world . |
| 19 | But all the stamping and cheering in the Empress ballroom might almost have been a vain attempt to muffle the sound of hats flopping intermittently into the leadership ring . |
| 20 | The ingredients are all there : an in-house bank ; a string of obscure firms ( including the appropriately named Croesus International ) based in loosely-regulated offshore financial centres ; and blocks of money winging electronically around the world . |
| 21 | There was a hissing sound of milk boiling over on the stove behind her and she managed to twist herself sideways and grab the saucepan . |
| 22 | The primary reason for this was the large increase er in the population of Germany arising out of the reunification of country . |
| 23 | Now they were talking about perhaps four tons of bombs toppling out of the sky one morning when Dornhausen thought the war had passed it by . |
| 24 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 25 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 26 | Sheep bought by the Scottish Office for testing will be slaughtered in two weeks after having eaten the contaminated vegetation for around eight weeks , to give a clearer picture of the likelihood of contamination passing further through the food chain . |
| 27 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 28 | One sunny weekend at the end of April 1990 , there are forty-six would-be members of Parliament milling around in the lobby of a formless overnight stopover near Heathrow Airport . |
| 29 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 30 | On the short mixed ridge leading to this minor training summit , you can view an endless stream of parties coming up from the Grands Montets cablecar station for a taste of a real alpine mountaineering . |