Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their celebrations continue more facts emerge with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing up to the final curtain . |
| 2 | You stand on St Saviour 's Point to see him going out between the forts , the seabirds flocking after his boat , the ropes screaming in the sheaves as the sails are hoisted . |
| 3 | It was a pitiful sight to watch him scrabbling about under the frames with that horrible thing chewing at his leg like an iron bulldog . |
| 4 | ‘ We used to call it living out of the shop . |
| 5 | If only to stop me dashing round to the newsagent every day to ask if it is in yet around the time due , I shall have to take out an MKM subscription and devote more of my energies to learning how . |
| 6 | The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots . |
| 7 | She returned indoors to fetch stout shoes and anorak , tied a headscarf over her bobbed brown hair to stop it flying about in the wind , and set off down the lane . |
| 8 | All the more to see us floundering around in the dark . |
| 9 | To prevent them rolling off into the water , the eggs are cuneiform , or wedge-shaped : narrow at one end and broad at the other . |
| 10 | The explanation appears to be that shepherds at high altitudes reverse their cigars in their mouths to prevent them blowing out in the wind ! |
| 11 | A fanatical letter writer , Peter , 19 , says people are wrong to picture him playing out in the bush . |
| 12 | The newcomer was ostentatiously dressed in robes slashed with yellow taffeta and bound by a gold cord very similar to one used by Benstede , although the latter had a row of knots in his to prevent it slipping down over the loops on his gown . |