Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A direct airmail subscription to your home is actually cheaper than buying WCM over the counter in Australia , New Zealand , India , Pakistan , Sri Lanka , West Indies , South Africa , etc . |
| 2 | But it was better him thinking that , than finding Lee in the shed . |
| 3 | and seeing England to the brink of victory . |
| 4 | What limits would be placed , and Kennedy was very acutely conscious of the big mistake that Truman had made in Korea in , in fact , seeking to extend the intervention and bringing China into the war under no circumstances must China be allowed to take that step in the case of Indo-China . |
| 5 | A sample of youth in north Germany interviewed in the late 1950s still revealed significant traces of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ : he had done much good in abolishing unemployment , punishing sexual criminals , constructing the motorways , introducing cheap radio sets , establishing the Labour Service , and reinstating Germany in the esteem of the world . |
| 6 | Indeed , Sally O'Brien 's has built up a reputation as an excellent venue , catering for a variety of musical tastes and keeping Omagh to the forefront when it comes to live music . |
| 7 | Far from leaping from his chair and seizing Pearce by the throat , a curious fatigue seemed to have settled in his bones . |
| 8 | Graham said , leaning forward and looking Slater in the eye . |
| 9 | This is n't the street , Sabina , ’ said Nunzia , coming in and kissing Caterina on the top of her head . |
| 10 | Salim reads about their doings in his magazines of popular science , and letting Ferdinand into the secret of his interest , he feels he is revealing his ‘ true self ’ . |
| 11 | Gallardo had pulled himself up from poverty by sheer force of personality , tapping the electricity lines that ran above the shanty town and reading Marx by the light . |
| 12 | Yardley was a golden boy pre-war who achieved almost every prize life and sport had to offer except , probably , the two he craved most : recovering the Ashes from Australia and taking Yorkshire to the County Championship . |
| 13 | " What I look like , " Slater said , coming forward and taking Graham by the elbow to continue walking , " is somebody who has discovered an old pair of RAF pilot 's boots at a market stall in Camden . " |
| 14 | In 756 , after successfully campaigning against the Britons of Strathclyde and besieging Dumbarton at the time of the alliance with Óengus , son of Forgus , king of the Picts , almost the whole of Eadberht 's army perished at Newburgh on the Tyne , perhaps at the hands of the Britons . |
| 15 | Louise said , restraining her cousin and following Constance into the changing room . |
| 16 | In Washington , the administration has now let it be known that it will work for the softening of the amendment 's consequences , provided — and forgetting Kosovo for the moment — that Stipe Mesic , a Croat , is no longer obstructed by the Serbs from taking up the post of chairman ( for one year ) of Yugoslavia 's eight-member presidency . |
| 17 | But applying QALYs to the allocation of resources is quite different because it involves a choice between the welfares of different people . |
| 18 | ‘ A Classic winner is super at any time , but having Michael in the saddle makes it a really special day . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ A Classic winner is super at any time , but having Michael in the saddle makes it a really special day . ’ |
| 20 | He did less sketching than usual that summer , whilst travelling France in the company of Ricky Stride and his friend Roy Vincent , an acrobat at the Shepherd 's Bush Empire and who , like Ricky , belonged to a crowd of friends who met by the river at Runnymede to swim , sunbathe , exercise and do acrobatics . |
| 21 | She is masturbating Martin with one hand , whilst taking Dave in the mouth . |
| 22 | Paramount , for example , as well as providing Korda with the money he needed for his first English films , made a deal with Wilcox 's British and Dominions company to supply them with 12 pictures annually on budgets of £30,000 apiece . |
| 23 | As well as giving Graham round the clock attention , the search for a cure has often taken both Kathleen and her husband away from their home and their daughters . |
| 24 | When congratulating Paskevich on the end of the war with the Turks in 1829 , Nicholas told him that his next task was to be " the permanent pacification of the mountain peoples or the extermination of the recalcitrant " . |
| 25 | This seems similar to the semantic juggling reported by Jones and Poletti when visiting Italy after the introduction of Law 180 in 1978 , which forbade the admission of any new patients to mental hospitals . |