Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they moved along the route she became aware of birds singing in the trees , and of sheep grazing peacefully in the fields . |
| 2 | The column stopped abruptly and when the noise of aircraft climbing away from the raid faded into the distance there was a short silence during which only the chug-chug of many stationary vehicles could be heard . |
| 3 | In schools the increasing number of para.professionals creeping in under the resources umbrella have understandably aroused suspicions in teachers ' union branches . |
| 4 | Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies . |
| 5 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 6 | Back to the edge of the island and there was already a crowd of people looking down at the rocks . |
| 7 | I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise . |
| 9 | It improves the experience of the students themselves and the businesses ' experience of the type of people coming out of the schools . |
| 10 | And that erm led to a lot of people coming down to the probation office , asking , you know , what if anything they could do about the noise up there . |
| 11 | As he drew closer he could see the outlines of people sitting down under the shade of a tree near the river . |
| 12 | Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth . |
| 13 | THE switchboard of The Northern was jammed yesterday morning with people phoning up with the answer to Saturday 's Stiff Little Fingers competition . |
| 14 | Now , as the bloke said there , the only way you can do that with people coming in from the outside is that British Gas have got to keep pushing their prices up to make it worthwhile for somebody else to come in . |
| 15 | In fact , until December last theirs was the largest private library of manuscripts in the world , with works dating back to the seventh century and texts of great importance to German history , the natural sciences , military history and the Grand Tour . |
| 16 | She bumped into Cal coming out of the kitchen and they started arguing over who should make the tea . |
| 17 | There are also a number of traffic put into er slow down traffic , being seen in many cases to be used as a target practice for people coming out of the pub on Saturday night . |
| 18 | I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now . |
| 19 | Besides providing homes for the newcomers to the city , these estates have been occupied by people moving out of the old city centre and out of some of the older terraced houses . |