Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARK MOULAND last night paid tribute to Welsh team-mate Ian Woosnam for helping to rescue him from the golfing scrap heap . |
| 2 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 3 | In fiscal 1992 , the drain on finances was development costs for the Sparcbook , exacerbated by a fall in demand for the board-level products : these were sufficiently severe that the company had to raise £572,000 in March in another rights issue after having to throw itself onto the mercy of its bankers and creditors in order to continue trading . |
| 4 | The baby had been very demanding lately , and after trying to divide herself between the shop and the child she felt drained of energy . |
| 5 | Thus from a very narrow and restricted expression there has been drawn a very wide and unrestricted principle , all based on the assumed purpose of Parliament and the perceived absurdity of seeking to effect it by the language in which Parliament actually chose to express it . |
| 6 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 7 | Ken kept his sheet music in the one he had constructed in the small back bedroom , so fear of splashing kept it on the whole unused . |
| 8 | Despite killing more than 1m of their countrymen between 1975 and 1979 , and despite refusing to submit themselves to the vote , they still have a chance of being invited into the government after the election . |
| 9 | At no time during his life did Vincent show any sign of wanting to involve himself in the socialist movements of his day . |
| 10 | To schematise , the British working class has not been ready to run the risks of attempting to constitute itself as the ruling class , of putting forward concrete proposals for working class control over industry and finance and fighting seriously to achieve them . |
| 11 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 12 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |
| 13 | Why did n't Luke damn well help him , instead of threatening to throw him off the film ? |
| 14 | It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom . |
| 15 | Bob Howe , Bus Driver , says it was the bus company 's way of saying thank you to the children for their good behaviour . |
| 16 | ‘ Thank God that I am not answerable to any higher authority ; but were I in the position of having to justify myself before the great British public , even I would find it difficult to defend your priorities . ’ |
| 17 | Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools . |
| 18 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 19 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 20 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 21 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 22 | A Some of these sucking type catfish have this habit of trying to attach themselves onto the sides of other fish . |
| 23 | In spite of trying to help them on the voyage , Margery was left alone at Dover . |
| 24 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |
| 25 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 26 | I accept the judgement of my fellow officers and , before I die , beg their forgiveness for having shamed them before the T'ang . ’ |
| 27 | Really she was just working out her guilt for having thrown me under the wardrobe when I was six weeks old . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 29 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 30 | Northampton captain Lamb was yesterday banned for two matches by his club and fined heavily — not for his comments , but for failing to clear them with the county . |