Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choate shows up the hypocrisy of former Administration members who oppose the Japanese publicly but take large fees for acting for them behind the scenes . |
| 2 | She insisted quietly on halving the bill and he let her have her way , not wanting to jeopardize his chance of eating with her in the future . |
| 3 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 4 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 5 | Paul speaks of suing for it before the praetor fideicommissarius . |
| 6 | This outcome , in turn , gave the Labour Party the double advantages of being able to choose the date of the next election and of going into it with the prestige of being the government . |
| 7 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 8 | The man ( if it was a man ) was probably a fairly junior member of the firm ; if only Henry could find a way of getting past him to the people really in the driving seat . |
| 9 | It would n't have been so bad , of course , if it had only been him , but there was that second-year nurse whom she had accused of loitering with him in the corridor — that was going to take some fancy footwork to get out of without loss of face . |
| 10 | One possible drawback could be that some people might decide to take an overdose as a result of learning about it through the media or public discussion , even if the behaviour had been presented as an inappropriate way of coping . |
| 11 | There was to her something romantic about the idea of sitting with him in the place where she had so often sat alone , eating a poached egg or macaroni cheese at a shaky little oak table . |
| 12 | Mrs Brown has been lobbying her MP the Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd for help , even to the extent of standing against him in the recent general election . |
| 13 | I am even scared of bumping into him in the street . |
| 14 | Such patterns of stress may be so much more damaging than the sum of their separate effects because their co-existence leads to a different attribution of meaning to them on the part of the child . |
| 15 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 16 | I would admire any conductor just for getting through it from the first note to the last without too many disasters P there 's a pitfall a minute . |
| 17 | For example , you could reward a child for staying with you in the supermarket by buying a small treat as you leave . |
| 18 | ‘ You always did stay up late , ’ she said , moving towards him , standing provocatively close , before walking past him into the hall . |
| 19 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 20 | Imperceptibly Hamilton had switched from talking to her to the girl who was still staring at her . |
| 21 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |
| 22 | He was then taken outside and made to dig a grave in the rocky , frozen ground , which took about three hours , before sleeping in it for the night . |
| 23 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 24 | We look forward to hearing from you regarding the above in the near future . |
| 25 | Paragraph at the same time can you inform me if , apart from your national list trials , do you have a recommended list similar to that operating in the United Kingdom , question mark , paragraph , as far as the agricultural seeds are concerned I take it that you operate a distinctness , comma , uniformity and stability trial as well as the value for cultivation and usage trial , question mark paragraph , can you inform me how long your official trials last , and what weights of seeds are required for these trials paragraph , I look forward to hearing from you in the near future , kindest regards , yours sincerely |
| 26 | There was an old woman on sitting opposite me on the way home and she had two big I was looking and looking These are not real . |
| 27 | ‘ You told me off once , ’ said Gazzer , ‘ for bumping into you in the corridors . ’ |
| 28 | She told me she worried about working with him in the show . |
| 29 | If he 's in for working with us on the next single then it might happen . ’ |
| 30 | He 's got this really boring name — Stuart Hughes , I ask you , there 's a career in soft furnishings for you , no qualifications needed except the perfect name , sir , and you 've got it — and he 's quite complacent about answering to it for the rest of his days . |