Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your whole intention seems to be to ruin me , simply in order to go on building your castles in the air . |
| 2 | The return to rock means the supercession of demystification by re-mystification , giving people back their sense of worship , rather than forcibly opening their eyes to the nuts and bolts of how ‘ myth ’ is constructed . |
| 3 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 4 | Sixteen thousand people watched an astonishing scene as Johnson was knocked to the canvas in the twenty-sixth round and made no attempt to regain his feet , merely shielding his eyes from the sun . |
| 5 | Mackay died , personally leading his troops into the thickest of the fight at the Battle of Steenkirk in July 1692 . |
| 6 | The lead Hunter knelt to the side of his face and was gently running its claws through the android 's hair . |
| 7 | This means concentrating on the tow and only taking your eyes off the towplane for a brief moment . |
| 8 | The local residents were of course only exercising their rights under the 1870 Education Act , which allowed the establishment of School Boards . |
| 9 | In the Illustrated London News a correspondent declared that Joffre had ‘ been seen … literally rubbing his hands over the attack ’ . |
| 10 | Like every other band , The Smiths used to queue up at Factory , eagerly awaiting their videos off the Haçienda video production line . |
| 11 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 12 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 13 | After lunch there was always an interval during which the men remained seated , perhaps leaning their heads on the table for a pisolino , a nap — exhausted after all the eating , drinking and argument . |
| 14 | I have known colleagues gleefully purging their shelves by the linear metre and filling skips by the ton often in the cause of some new fad or fashion such as trying ‘ face-on ’ display … |
| 15 | He would stoop slightly and listen attentively while you spoke to him , as if it were important that he heard every word , gently sliding his spectacles up the bridge of his nose as he did so . |
| 16 | Camm , I found a little surprising your comments about the shortcomings of the exercise tests in prognostication . |
| 17 | In 1747 , Stukeley could stand Stamford no longer and he took up the living of St. George 's in Bloomsbury , London , thus ending his associations with the town . |
| 18 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 19 | We will need to provide an evolutionary approach to migrating from one technology to another so we 're not forcing our customers down the fantasy land alternative . |
| 20 | It is perhaps worth making the point ( for readers who are just beginning their enquiries into the history of this period ) that a lord did not usually own all the land on his manor but had certain defined rights , which differed from place to place and even between neighbouring settlements . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've coloured hair lots of times , ’ Mandy muttered , not removing her eyes from the binoculars she had screwed into them . |
| 22 | We are just holding our thumbs in the hope that the machinery and fabric will last through the summer months . |
| 23 | It had attempted to conceal its breach of the limit by making the bids in the names of clients and by not reporting its acquisitions to the Federal Reserve . |
| 24 | Mrs Browning was still in bed while Pen dashed in and out when he was not feeding his rabbits on the balcony . |
| 25 | The network is aimed at permitting exchange and support between its members , thus reinforcing their initiatives for the democratisation of communication and society as a whole . |
| 26 | The first of the pros were already finishing their rounds on the 18th green . |
| 27 | Spreadsheet vendors ca n't be accused of not having their fingers on the pulse of their market . |
| 28 | Unix Systems Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper and his boss-in-waiting , Novell Inc chief Ray Noorda were in Japan last week explaining to Unix Labs 's Japanese shareholders the ins and outs of the deal that 's been cut : it is said that some companies , perhaps ICL Plc and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , were interested in somehow retaining their shares in the Unix firm . |
| 29 | I think they 're also important in terms of not losing your links with the wider society . |
| 30 | We 're already dabbling our toes in the market , with the account customers like L — like Mr Hunter . |