Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lad heard curses and hollering coming from the kitchen and , on entering the kitchen discovered the victim feet up in the vat , and Jarman cursing in pain and rubbing spattered fat from his face . |
| 2 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 3 | He no longer felt the need to borrow cars and go lifting round the shops to relive the boredom . |
| 4 | She fell down on her knees and began crawling across the floor . |
| 5 | The men got to their feet and began filing through the door on Gregson 's left , muttering to themselves and each other as they went . |
| 6 | It 's the party season , so Louise Pickford takes our favourite winter fruits and gets cracking with the nuts to produce a selection of Christmas canapés and two delicious dishes |
| 7 | These costs are paid straight into the Legal Aid Fund and go to defray the actual costs of the action in the accounts rendered to the Fund by solicitors and counsel acting for the assisted party . |
| 8 | Most controversially , they recommended stronger police powers to search and arrest brothel-keepers and make soliciting on the streets illegal . |
| 9 | Mr Hartley 's mother Isabel said : ‘ He often has barbecues and goes swimming at the river when it 's hot . ’ |
| 10 | Meanwhile thousands of Sinhalese youths responded to radio appeals and started enlisting in the Army . |
| 11 | She snapped off the light between the beds and lay listening to the night . |
| 12 | But he lived another seven years and continued working to the end . |
| 13 | Anyway , with Eric on his way , I did n't think it would be a good idea to start another War only to have to abandon it in the middle of things and start dealing with the real world . |
| 14 | Even from where I stood I could see the white and yellow of dog-daisies and hawkear blowing in the sea-breeze like coloured veils over the green . |
| 15 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 16 | I urge members , Chairman , not to hide behind this shabby amendment but to vote according to their consciences and their beliefs and to vote according to the views of eighty percent of the population that we represent and I urge other members to be as brief . |
| 17 | Redpath put on a pair of silk gloves and started going through the inside pocket of the jacket , following with the outside pockets . |
| 18 | Yeah , but were you the sort of people that walk into hospitals and start praying for the sick to be healed . |
| 19 | Those without places hovered behind the chairs and kept moving round the room so that they could nip in when people left their places to collect their awards or for any other reason . |
| 20 | Transnational practices are , of course , abstract concepts , but they refer directly to the practices of agents and derive meaning from the institutional settings in which they occur , and because of which they have determinate effects . |
| 21 | Cos you did n't know whether they 'd had er you know had a lot to drink or had a load of drugs and start going on the rampage or something . |
| 22 | That was when they first changed over from seamed stockings to seamless ones and started laying off the skilled knitters and bringing in the women . |
| 23 | There were , he said , 180 parks , forests and chases belonging to the queen , and the rights proposed to be leased in them were worth far more than £40,000 a year . |
| 24 | Some normal household policies do not include cover for fish tanks and damage arising from the water which will inevitably pour on the floor . |
| 25 | The marines were acting as extras and kept jeering at the Hollywood phoneys . |
| 26 | Jinny slid out of bed , pulled on a jersey and a pair of jeans and stood listening in the dark . |