Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier rate cuts are beginning to filter through the economy and the retail trade is making optimistic noises about shoppers coming back to the High Street . |
| 2 | My helpers borrowed an old flatbed truck from a farmer , along with two dozen squared bales of hay which they arranged as steps leading up to the truck . |
| 3 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 4 | Set on a hilltop , the old town is surrounded by seven rows of ramparts leading up to the bastion and cathedral at the summit . |
| 5 | Not raising her head , nor even starting , at the sudden clamour of birds squabbling out in the clearing . |
| 6 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 7 | Now they were talking about perhaps four tons of bombs toppling out of the sky one morning when Dornhausen thought the war had passed it by . |
| 8 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 9 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 10 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 11 | On the short mixed ridge leading to this minor training summit , you can view an endless stream of parties coming up from the Grands Montets cablecar station for a taste of a real alpine mountaineering . |
| 12 | He left the car again , and saw something else on the other side of it — a pair of legs jutting out from the bushes nearby . |
| 13 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 14 | Looking past Adam , she saw Fand had stopped by another set of steps winding up into the rock . |
| 15 | It was market day and the wide curving flight of steps leading up to the centre was lined with flimsy tables covered in kitchenware and watches and clothing and tools and toys Music blared out from a stall selling bootleg cassette tapes . |
| 16 | The Doctor looked back from the short flight of steps leading down to the entry hall , and watched the TARDIS dematerialize with a feeling of pain at seeing his ship go without him . |
| 17 | The alley ended abruptly in a couple of steps leading down to the sluggish black waters of a canal . |
| 18 | It has a flight of steps leading down into the depths , and its main feature is a high waterfall that emerges from behind a wedged boulder known as Mohammed 's Coffin . |
| 19 | Since under national legal systems it is usually stipulated that the place in which the association is established is to be the place of performance of obligations arising out of the act of becoming a member , the application of article 5(1) of the Convention also has practical advantages : the court for the place in which the association has its seat is in fact usually the best fitted to understand the documents of constitution , rules and decisions of the association , and also the circumstances out of which the dispute arose . |
| 20 | And did you ever hear of tensions building up amongst the men ? |
| 21 | An example of presentation infidelity , uncovered in our survey , was where companies showed a series of columns sloping back towards the right away from the common baseline of the X axis . |
| 22 | PC Cooper was later convicted of offences arising out of the accident . |
| 23 | There was now a great congestion of horsemen milling around in the area between town and castle . |
| 24 | Er by effectively where we 've got the er combination of colours joining on to the southern bypass , we looked at moving that in a westerly direction to encourage that movement . |
| 25 | The one dear to the heart of the popular press is the possibility of individuals opting out of the labour market altogether to ‘ sponge ’ off the state . |
| 26 | Henceforth the old spectacle of brokers milling around on the Stock Exchange floor was replaced by silent , almost invisible , computerized networks for dealers , reflecting the new internationalism of the stock market . |
| 27 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 28 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 29 | One says the main problems are rival groups of casuals coming out of the discos and restaurants at about 4.30 , and the crowds that gather round the kebab shops . |
| 30 | The changes in legislation have been dramatic since the mid-eighties the majority of changes coming in at the beginning of nineteen ninety three with the E C directives . |