Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 2 | The PDS-3 machines , which the company says it is pitching between Sun 's Sparcstation 2 and Sparcstation 10 offerings — will be available in the UK from Pinnacle Data Systems Europe Ltd , Dunstable , Bedfordshire — formerly known as Unix Solutions and now trading under the Pinnacle name — with European distributors being lined up . |
| 3 | It was as though there was a sort of non-resolved question of wanting to commit myself to a particular idea of having non-monogamous relationships and not buying into the feelings of jealousy . |
| 4 | Their faults seem so deeply ingrained , from quantitative measures and bogus statistics to valueless currencies and not caring about the environment . |
| 5 | ‘ Psychologists now think that America has never recovered from the traumatic blow of introducing baseball into the Los Angeles Olympics and then losing in the final to Japan . ’ |
| 6 | The fingerboard is wide and again lends itself well to rock styles , although if you 're into slinging guitars around your knees and just going for the chords there 's plenty of meat to get hold of . |
| 7 | it 's just bringing downm the barriers and not hiding behind the uniform . |
| 8 | Thousands of tons of sand washed off the hillside onto Faringdon — silting up cellars and virtually cutting off the town . |
| 9 | The Guardian can now declare : ‘ No successful capitalist economy has been developed without the state sponsoring an entrepreneurial class , designing and encouraging a network of supportive institutions and actively intervening in the management of the economy . ’ |
| 10 | Well , there is a kind of waiting process here , that is in political life particularly , some people are more important than others in their political views and opinions and certainly depending on the nature of the society . |
| 11 | This would consist of a group of employees each of whom would be given the responsibility of monitoring the evacuation of a designated part of the building , checking that all rooms , toilets , cloakrooms , etc. in that area were clear of personnel and then reporting to the ‘ Senior Fire Steward ’ at a pre-determined reporting position outside the premises . |
| 12 | The promotion she is seeking entails learning the complexities of the whole ticketing system , passing exams and then travelling throughout the London Transport region as a trouble-shooter . |
| 13 | But doing the whole thing — removing daytime clothes , putting on special sleeping garments , emptying the bladder , cleaning the teeth and finally getting into the purpose-built sleeping furniture — is something that is only done in the bedrooms specially built for the purpose . |
| 14 | There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them . |
| 15 | This remedy is similar to Aconite but lacks its febrile excitement and is slower in pace , its onset taking several days and often beginning in the evening . |
| 16 | Was she lying like this receiving intravenous fluids and simply waiting till the haemorrhaging stopped ? |
| 17 | One feature I was sad to see here on a recent visit was a fish hatchery installed in the bay , a sight now common in the western lochs and doubtless contributing to the local economy ; sad because I feel that all living creatures should have freedom of movement and not be bred and confined in restricted space for the table . |
| 18 | A note of the fact that they have started out equally separated from each other , are now marching in parallel straight lines , and we need to check later that they are still separated by equal distances and still going in the same direction . |
| 19 | In this process of consultation , the emphasis moves from deciding how to spend available resources to identifying needs , establishing priorities and then deciding on the budget " ( Nightingale 1990 : 110 ) . |
| 20 | Thereafter confusion set in and , from scenes of events , groups of figures , etc. , presented on a very small scale , the term has come to mean elaborate pictures , much more ambitious than the historiations and sometimes extending to the whole of a large page . |
| 21 | They are able to form a good relationship with their foster parents and they have the advantages of remaining in a normal setting , going to school , making friends and generally participating in the life of the neighbourhood . |
| 22 | Gleefully two of his companions linked arms and cavorted around Owen , drawing their guns with their free hands and wildly shooting into the air . |
| 23 | Now , she lay panting by the fire , warming her flanks and apparently listening to the humans ' conversation . |
| 24 | 2 ) Positioning the mouse cursor on the text line and using the backspace or delete keys to delete the numbers and then typing in the new value . |
| 25 | At the Dixie Dude , I spent my time between riding in the hills and just sitting on the porch doing nothing . |
| 26 | Of course , it 's good to know the ground rules about wearing the right clothes and not jumping on the sett ( certainly , from the badger 's point of view ) , but the consequence of picking up badger-lore slowly — getting closer to the smells , scratches and signs — is that you not only find it easier to watch badgers but also more enjoyable . |
| 27 | The editor 's look suggests displeasure , but I am too elated to worry and with a skip I whirl into the revolving doors and out laughing into the night.But now , what a fiasco ! |
| 28 | Further damage to preparations caused by local heating includes blistering of thin section bonding resins and even cracking of the glass slide . |