Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
| 2 | Unfortunately Ken 's recovery has suffered a setback after seeing us still in the title race with only fourteen-sixteenths of the season remaining . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 4 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 5 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 6 | This has reduced the lag between the US and the UK to around a month with the stated goal of eliminating it completely by the end of the year for both English and the primary European languages . |
| 7 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
| 8 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 9 | They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century . |
| 10 | These muscles have the function of keeping us upright against the ever-present force of gravity ; they have the advantage of never tiring as they need to work for long periods at a time . |
| 11 | " Then I will hope to have the pleasure of meeting you again in the ancient city of the Annamese emperors , " said the governor , smiling again . |
| 12 | Also , with Bush committed to opposing both bills , Republicans in Congress were anxious to enable him to avoid the political embarrassment of vetoing them just before the presidential election . |
| 13 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 14 | Naturally he wanted a top man to carry his bag , a man who knew St Andrews like the back of his hand — someone young and capable of clubbing him perfectly over the home of golf 's fickle links , no matter what the weather . |
| 15 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 16 | The malodorous slime has the dual effects of choking anyone too near the Troll and also making it extremely hard for an attacker to land a blow . |
| 17 | But I do know that when times were bad , the people in the dale had to use the wool off the backs of the sheep themselves instead of sending it away to the wool merchants of Bradford after shearing . |
| 18 | As the name suggests , this consists of bouncing the light off reflective surfaces instead of aiming it directly at the subject . |
| 19 | Another criticism of this study is that the authors only differentiated very generally between first and second generation Asian and Afro-Caribbeans without discussing the implications of mixing them together in the study , potentially masking important differences in the rates of schizophrenia between the two , and leaving an unclear picture as to whether second generation Asians , who were in the minority , benefited in the same way from the postulated protective factors . |
| 20 | J. was quite capable of staring her straight in the eye and swearing that black was white if it would get me out of a jam . |
| 21 | right cos then you 're taking them away from the fact that you want other quotes right , they 'll say to you oh we were n't thinking of doing it actually until the winter , right and then you can say to them well let me just say that by placing your order in now we can put your installation in hand , right , basically at today 's prices , right , on an extended delivery , right , and you can still qualify for a special offer , right |
| 22 | The Fanatics are the real weapon , the Mob is just a means of deploying them close to the enemy lines . |
| 23 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 24 | This makes recovery , especially from word initial errors , extremely difficult , since the matching process has no way of realigning itself correctly with the input . |
| 25 | A third method of making it easier on the parties is through the Fixed Costs Scheme proposed by the Law Society . |
| 26 | The recent work by McAuslan and others ( supra ) in respect of the functioning of the Windscale Inquiry casts further doubt on the fairness of our current practice of leaving it solely to the legislature to determine the form and procedure to be adopted at such inquiries . |
| 27 | Absolutely sure that he did n't express any intention of visiting you later in the evening ? ’ |
| 28 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 29 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 30 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |