Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plans for flying around the beautiful Nelson and Marlborough Sounds area happened to be frustrated by the fact that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was visiting nearby . |
| 2 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |
| 3 | It was in fact my experience of working with the banks and institutions for the recapitalisation and reconstruction of John Brown which led me to think that the City is much maligned over its attitudes to industry and the accusation of short-termism is not justified . |
| 4 | I decided to minimize my presence by standing in the shadows much further away from table than I might usually have done . |
| 5 | It is commendable that they have once again quickly seized the opportunity to involve themselves fully with my Department in working towards the successful implementation of the council tax in 1993 . |
| 6 | I remained motionless for a while , practising the muscle relaxation techniques I had learned in drama , sending round my mental supervisor to check that every part was free from tension , at the same time , striving to calm myself mentally , to empty my mind by focusing on the One , then dismissing that also . |
| 7 | I 'm getting worn out doing this , it 's hurting my eyes after going to the pictures and then doing all these bingo cards for granddad |
| 8 | And now that I 'm up here the problem is keeping my eyes on this page and stopping my mind from wandering and my pen from straying to the edge of the paper and doodling , something I am sure to give in to before long . |
| 9 | It was difficult to stop my things from falling into the sea , but in the end I got everything on to the shore . |
| 10 | The smoke blows in my eyes making them water and sting , so I get up , move and freeze my ass off sitting beyond the smoke in the wind up the valley . |
| 11 | I divorced my wife for smoking in the toilet ! |
| 12 | At first we just made conversation , but after a couple of drinks Reid looked at me thoughtfully , twiddling his half-empty glass , and said , ‘ There 's no reason not to tell you this , Kit , but since we 've got to work together , I 'd rather explain my mode of living before the old cats on the island — the European gossips — start telling you stories . |
| 13 | I waited to get my breath before cutting across the road . |
| 14 | I never miss a day of my life with washing on the line . |
| 15 | erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe I owe my stature to reaching for the stars , then . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My style of playing over the top of the neck was just an accident . |
| 18 | Dickie had just collected the afternoon post from the postman in the lane and given me my letter before taking in the rest to his mother . |
| 19 | I was starving ; it was hours since either of us had eaten but Mrs Lewis made me wash my hands before sitting at the table . |
| 20 | IMAGINE my surprise on getting through the post an appeal on behalf of the very rich a personalised letter from Chris Patten MP exhorting me to give generously to the Conservative Party or else I might ‘ wake up on the morning after polling day to find Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party are in power ’ . |
| 21 | I lie down on my bed and remove my socks before looking at the folder . |
| 22 | The doors were padlocked anyway and I got what I wanted for my purpose from looking at the outside . ’ |
| 23 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 24 | Could my investiture of Mr Broadhurst with such sinister and wide-ranging powers have been my way of dealing with the chronic lack of a proper role model ? |
| 25 | It could easily be nothing more than my way of coping with the consequences of a senseless accident . |
| 26 | You have been to a tournament and an auto-da-fé already , and if you had not embarrassed my son by fainting at the latter event you would have been presented to King Sebastian himself . " |
| 27 | I had hoped to take my time over sorting out the house contents , but I 'd better take a look straight away — at any rate for the movable stuff . |
| 28 | At the Dixie Dude , I spent my time between riding in the hills and just sitting on the porch doing nothing . |
| 29 | Max Klein 's wife , Dora , however , had recently begun to tolerate this prohibition with definite , if unexpressed , ill-grace , finding that it greatly restricted her opportunity of parading before the community Max 's newly acquired Ford motor-car . |
| 30 | That road to Co-operation proved , certainly in the United Kingdom , as well as in the United States , to be a dead-end ; and it is convenient to trace the whole of its course before turning to the more significant developments started in his absence . |