Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 2 | A day of sorrows for Crusaders was capped just before half-time when the usually lethal Sid Burrows was booked for throwing the ball away and referee Alan Snoddy had a word with manager Roy Walker for coming on to the pitch . |
| 3 | I sat down to watch the late afternoon shadows climb Rise Hill before striking out for the Occupation Road . |
| 4 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 5 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 6 | If we had more courage at Goodison in facing up to the truth unpalatable though it may be things might begin to improve . |
| 7 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 8 | The train departs Oxenhope at 09.00 hrs on Saturday , October 19th and calls at Ingrow and Keighley before heading out over the S & C. |
| 9 | While Beck 's adventures were cut short , Nick Faldo , beaten by Lyle in last year 's final , went into overtime against David Frost of South Africa before coming through on the 38th hole . |
| 10 | ‘ I know lots of places , ’ she retorted then glared at Doyle before striding out of the bar . |
| 11 | Bolger monopolised the rest of a seven-race programme , compiling his first five-timer at odds of 681–1 and Mrs Payson saw two explosive wins from her home-bred colts Tropicarr and Magic Carr before flying back to the United States yesterday . |
| 12 | There are , of course , specific Israeli laws to stop Damiani and Abu Khadra and Mrs Zamzam from crossing back in the other direction . |
| 13 | Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion . |
| 14 | Dr Bob Holman , a National Children 's Home neighbourhood worker on the Easterhouse Estate in Glasgow , told a conference in London on growing up in the inner city organised by the Thomas Coram Foundation and chaired by Lord Scarman , that most of the 44,000 people there lived in poverty . |
| 15 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |