Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Claude would be pleased with me for staying out of the attic . |
| 2 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 3 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
| 4 | A dark giant of a man , possibly Tonio , leaned out of the lorry 's cabin to thank them for pulling out of the way . |
| 5 | ‘ Anna warned me about sitting out in the sun , but … ’ |
| 6 | Curled alongside the mighty Rhine there 's plenty of messing about on the river to do , and the hospitality would certainly help when entertaining Mr. Toad . |
| 7 | On the other hand , similar statements of mine have never prevented you from writing back in the past . |
| 8 | In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds . |
| 9 | Erm and it 's a birthday issue and and a quite an important one for setting up for the Euros and the mail action . |
| 10 | As far as she could remember , it was something about jumping out of the thing you cook in and into the thing you cooked on . |
| 11 | He looked strangely at me , muttered something about coming back within the hour , and sauntered off . |
| 12 | The Dinosaur guitar influence is maybe too apparent and they might have to wait until the next one before breaking out of the indie ghetto . |
| 13 | The Dinosaur guitar influence is maybe too apparent and they might have to wait until the next one before breaking out of the indie ghetto . |
| 14 | There are two ways of arranging the designs , either working on each one at the same time , or completing one before moving on to the other . |
| 15 | At least one species of African bushbaby , for example , cups its hands and urinates upon them before setting off into the African night . |
| 16 | The train puffed to a stop ; only five passengers alighted , and the only male among them a tall young man , his hair so fair that from a distance it appeared almost white , waved to them before turning back to the carriage and lifting out a case . |
| 17 | Northern GRAMOPHONE readers ( and surely many southerners as well ) will join me in welcoming back to the catalogue the first of James Loughran 's Hallé Orchestra has always shown a special feeling for Brahms 's sound , and Loughran is also a highly responsive Brahmsian , flexibly spontaneous in his sense of line , yet at the same time demonstrating a comparable structural grasp . |
| 18 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 19 | She caught hold of one of the timber supports to stop herself from shooting out into the main tunnel . |
| 20 | Kosi had moved up beside her after checking in with the duty manager . |
| 21 | His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever . |
| 22 | Some of her fellow students accused her of selling out to the whites . |
| 23 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 24 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 25 | His grip lingered on the translator 's hand and he smiled faintly at her before turning back to the Chief of Protocol who was standing behind him . |
| 26 | He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats . |
| 27 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 28 | In an effortless manner the 33-year-old Portuguese woman had practically swept all before her since bouncing on to the world stage in 1982 . |
| 29 | So the salt you can remember it through going back to the acid plus alkali reaction , it 's the same one you get there . |
| 30 | ‘ It would make it worth getting up in the morning . ’ |