Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 2 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 3 | The first session , after I have finished speaking , will involve 12 speakers addressing you on the theme of the conference , each from his or her specific perspective . |
| 4 | She laughed caustically , her eyes meeting his in the mirror of the pool , challenging him . |
| 5 | Against her will her breasts swelled , hardened nipples forcing themselves against the cotton . |
| 6 | Removing the worry of finding other jobs should make it easier for the players to focus on their cricket and there is also the hope that a couple of the kids to benefit from having our lads coaching them in the winter will develop into Notts players of the future . ’ |
| 7 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that the starkness of early Wesleyan theology made for a rather close match , with local preachers assuming something of the role of conjurer . |
| 9 | There are loads of Leed supporters in Goole but they seemed to be more i interested in the young kids chucking themselves in the water jump on the running track which was right by the pitch ! |
| 10 | She 's off , her long legs carrying her down the lane . |
| 11 | From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris . |
| 12 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 13 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 14 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 15 | Rather than ‘ structuring tasks for collaboration ’ , it was more a process of ‘ structuring a learning environment for collaboration ’ , with each of the elements contributing something to the whole and therefore needing to be understood in relation to the whole . |
| 16 | And er I never remember er my parents painting anything in the house at all . |
| 17 | Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany . |
| 18 | Thus , a use of eloquent formal language , a confident employment of a literary heritage , and a preoccupation with either metaphysical themes or the large issues of state of especial interest to those in the governing classes are normally upheld as critical sign-posts directing us to the period 's ‘ greatest ’ writing . |
| 19 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 20 | She was barely aware of the other models joining her on the platform , followed by Rainmondo himself , something he did only for very important clients . |
| 21 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 22 | With all the oscillation that was involved in that er shop stewards taking cases up , the shop stewards discussing it with the management , the management 's involvement , the management 's attitude becoming gradually , not weakened but er inured to the stewards ' fundamental logical claims on behalf of their members , made it easier you know , and progress was , was being noted that , and earnings were rising , earnings were rising . |
| 23 | This is the one where Paul recalls his parents telling him during the war not to worry during air raids , ‘ because it 's unlikely the bomb will ever have your name written on it , son ’ . |
| 24 | Life is good … one can understand these people behind the lines resigning themselves to the war … |
| 25 | ‘ Too soft you are , girl , ’ Win Morgan broke her bread into small pieces soaking them in the soup , ‘ ca n't be responsible for the whole neighbourhood , can you ? |
| 26 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 27 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 28 | In early 1991 after the Australian Federal Court found the Tobacco Institute of Australia guilty of publishing misleading information about the health effects of passive smoking , Quit wrote to 175 000 organisations informing them of the decision and inviting them to participate in its workplace campaign . |
| 29 | He thereupon immediately wrote to Kingsway Motors informing them of the situation and claiming the return of his purchase price . |
| 30 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |