Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too frightened to brave the front of the hotel , she found the staff stairs to escape by , and she hid behind a peculiarly luscious tropical plant until she saw the porter waiting perplexedly beside the taxi she 'd ordered . |
| 2 | Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war . |
| 3 | Seven minutes is what it takes me at this time in the evening ; eight , sometimes nine , coming the opposite way in the morning , to allow for waits at the two pedestrian crossings and the crowds coming out of the station . |
| 4 | Place the top over a jam jar of water , with the base resting just under the water . |
| 5 | As she walked down the crazy-pavement paths to the lily pond , Constance was struck by the blackbirds hopping around in the sun . |
| 6 | Out of the front window he saw the ‘ For Sale ’ sign , the white paint of the board showing up in the light that shone from between the curtains of Tom 's cottage . |
| 7 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 8 | It seems to have been assumed throughout the discussions leading up to the signature of the Convention that the use of the postal channel was indeed a mode of service , of notification . |
| 9 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 10 | I have heard that even if they lose 15 per cent of the money coming in at the moment , some of them could fold . |
| 11 | Each year , the whole of the money coming in from the world A.P.F . |
| 12 | The erm the views coming back from the consultant were obviously er so follow occasions but not dramatically so . |
| 13 | Head to the viewing platform and then turn right through the wood and go back to the field turning right down the hard path and going back to the Castle Bolton signpost . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's probably one of them , ’ said Lydia , ‘ — one of the lunatics giggling away in the night . ’ |
| 15 | The data allow the medical school greater control over the teaching going on in the hospitals . |
| 16 | Then he spoke , his voice not quite as calm as it had been previously , the accent humming roughly in the depths of the tones . |
| 17 | But it gave her a clear view into the houses backing on to the tracks , the private mess usually tidied out of sight , the outside lavatories with unhinged doors , the laundry racks flimsy as the skeleton of a bird 's wing , with trousers and underwear like broken feathers hanging ; a burst , sodden mattress . |
| 18 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 19 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 20 | Most will be the former , with the cable running out from the fuseway in the consumer unit to supply a number of socket outlets on the ring , and then returning to the same fuseway . |
| 21 | It is not good practice simply to leave the cable poking out of the wall , and many wall light fittings will not have space in their backing plate to make the connections . |
| 22 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 23 | Crossing the bridge , look back at the romantic view of the palaces backing on to the canal . |
| 24 | That evidence will surely mount if Mr Hurd fails to cause to be reviewed the convictions in the cases arising out of the Birmingham and Guildford bombings , bombings whose victims should not be allowed to include anyone wrongfully imprisoned for them . |
| 25 | I would n't be so stupid as to pretend to have any idea what Claudia was going through during the hours leading up to the birth . |
| 26 | Towing forwards going down wind means that there is no possibility of being blown over , but the controls must be held or locked otherwise the control hinges may be damaged by the surfaces slamming across against the stops . |
| 27 | You can now stand the garter bar upright in the needle groove of your ribber , with the knitting hanging down between the ribber and the knitter . |
| 28 | In the close , timber-scented air of the hut , with the herbs rustling overhead in the rising warmth from the brazier , she sat leaning forward to the glow , the light gilding her high cheekbones and the broad sweep of brow beneath the curling black hair . |
| 29 | Finding the courtyard full , latecomers were taking up their stations in perfectly straight ranks first on the steps , then in the roads leading up to the mosque , then out in the gardens and bazaars beyond . |
| 30 | And there is the lane dropping down to the stone bridge that was rebuilt in 1948 , but unquestionably on the site of the stone bridge which is mentioned as a landmark in an even earlier charter . |