Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journey with him had been tense , the atmosphere between them like standing on the edge of a volcano , waiting to be flung into the fire when it exploded . |
| 2 | The last I saw of Jordi was when he turned his head towards me before getting into the car , smiled , and gave a shrug . |
| 3 | Yet I still believe what I said to Martinho , as he cocked his blind head towards me before talking of the hand of God : there 's always someone else who 'll step forward . |
| 4 | He looked very worried and nodded respectfully to the three of them before leaning over the bed , concern evident on his face . |
| 5 | Susan had looked up as she felt his glance and had smiled towards him before moving to the group by the window . |
| 6 | It started as a movement , that is again the critics that is that again the critics picked it up and made something of it worth discussing in the mid-sixties . |
| 7 | As far as I understand from the gossip there 's nothing 'll come out of it by goin' to the polis ; it 's got to come from Parliament . |
| 8 | The Government encourages exploitation of most of us by preying on the fears of the employed and the misery of the unemployed . |
| 9 | He gathered in the tarpaulin as a yachtsman might a spinnaker and dumped it behind him before peering into the semi-darkness . |
| 10 | Incidents directed against members of the government also occurred , and Prime Minister Edith Cresson on Oct. 21 ordered ministers to seek clearance with her before travelling to the provinces . |
| 11 | She had managed to cope with it by listening to the radio , playing tapes , even turning on breakfast television until its unremitting triviality had threatened to drive her even madder than she had felt herself going already . |
| 12 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 13 | But we see here how Jesus , apart from anything else , deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people . |
| 14 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 15 | I have therefore tried to discover some way in which this House can fulfil its duty to decide the case before it without trespassing on the sensibilities of the House of Commons . |
| 16 | I had come upon it in thumbing through The Writers and Artists Yearbook ; it seems to have been an Anglo-Catholic journal . |
| 17 | He glanced briefly about him before continuing along the scattered fringe of trees that girdled it . |
| 18 | Some of the delay is inevitably due to the way in which the applicant , having been through the preliminary investigation and the visit from the occupational therapist , considers the scheme proposed for him before proceeding to the formal application stage . |
| 19 | I tried to take his mind off her by talking about the Norwegian leather industry but he could n't get interested somehow . |
| 20 | The questions involved did not relate to the guilt or innocence of the defendants but whether they had been wrongfully deprived of material which should have been available to them in preparing for the trial and for use at the trial if relevant . |
| 21 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 22 | As a young Christian exclaimed to me on realizing for the first time the titanic implications of this claim , ‘ I always knew Christianity was true , but I never realized it was this true ! ’ |
| 23 | It seems to me from looking at the figures within the projections that what North Yorkshire are are planning is that we 'll have a return to that widening black area that 's part of that particular diagram . |
| 24 | He took vulgar public revenge on me by mocking in the pages of Madame Bovary a seal I had once given him as a token of love . |
| 25 | Travelling by coach you will pass through the flower carpet fields to the Franz Roozen Nurseries where you will discover the art of growing flowers and perhaps order your own bulbs which will be delivered to you for planting in the autumn . |
| 26 | Vincent went to him for drawing in the mornings , and in the evenings to try his hand at watercolours , as he had done before Christmas . |
| 27 | Mr. Spearing : Is the Leader of the House aware that those who are concerned about this matter are grateful to him for referring to the Select Committee 's report of two years ago and that we look forward to the Government implementing the intention that they stated at that time ? |
| 28 | She glanced at the brief details on the card Jill handed to her before smiling at the man . |
| 29 | He decided not to pander to it by asking for the admirers name . |
| 30 | BSDI bases its claims of no-licence-required on representations made to it in writing by the University 's Computer Systems Research Group . |