Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] their [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The local residents were of course only exercising their rights under the 1870 Education Act , which allowed the establishment of School Boards . |
| 3 | Like every other band , The Smiths used to queue up at Factory , eagerly awaiting their videos off the Haçienda video production line . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The first of the pros were already finishing their rounds on the 18th green . |
| 12 | Spreadsheet vendors ca n't be accused of not having their fingers on the pulse of their market . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Dolores and her father were already at the table , and her two brothers were just washing their hands in the kitchen with young Pablo the fisherman who was Lina 's intended . |
| 15 | ALTHOUGH Ville de Paris and Nippon have been eliminated after the final races of the America 's Cup challengers ' semi-finals , they are both already setting their sights on the 1995 Cup . |
| 16 | Jonadab and his two sons were just scraping their boots at the back door , prior to going in for a mug of tea . |
| 17 | The mortar team are still lobbing their bombs into the enemy positions as we dash across the road and over a five-bar gate , then double along the hedgerow that runs alongside the road . |
| 18 | are trapped while still using their insights regarding the economic or social bases of Thatcherism . |
| 19 | No unpleasantness seems to have been caused , but in one instance the opposition went home giving their names for the records . |
| 20 | With five goals already this season , Drysdale 's barnstorming raids will be a serious threat to Leeds , still licking their wounds after the European Cup disaster against Rangers and Saturday 's 4–0 hiding at Manchester City . |
| 21 | Not of this world British politicians are still burying their heads in the sand , says Fred Halliday |
| 22 | By the time Bernice and her colleagues had arrived , it had degenerated into a series of unconnected fragments which drifted apart over thousands of years , gradually leaking their atmospheres into the vacuum . |
| 23 | But , despite repeated public protestations to the contrary , senior politicians of both main parties have been discreetly considering their tactics in the event that neither Conservatives nor Labour secure the 326 seats needed to win immediate power . |
| 24 | You know , young , homeless people we pick up on this bus and er , we have , we we 've sort of ended up pursuing their cases with the housing department and getting temporary accommodation . |
| 25 | And both wearing their coats in the stifling smelly heat of paraffin . |
| 26 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're safe now — only another step or two ! ’ they heard Chuck call out , and within a few seconds they were both thankfully flinging their arms round the firm , strongly rooted trunks of the saplings on the ridge . |
| 28 | So property professionals are now turning their sights towards the existing occupied stocks . |
| 29 | Mr Gordon in your erm opening remarks you referred to the fact that erm following the programme re-orientation I think you words were that the full government are now capping their liabilities on the programme . |
| 30 | It 's not hard to identify some voluntary organisations which were shoe string operations a few years ago but are now lumbering their employees in the hundreds . |