Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heinrich admitted to carrying in the bird , Auguste to carving , James and Algernon to transporting the results , Alice and Emily to transporting vegetables , sauces , forcemeats and gravy . |
| 2 | Weary unto death , listless and depressed , Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan . |
| 3 | After heated debate and repeated votes , Gorbachev succeeded in pushing through the legislation , which effectively meant the deputies voting themselves out of office . |
| 4 | Jeff came into teaching via the practical side of art . |
| 5 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 6 | Dennis Waterman felt like going to the canteen so we took him down , got all the food to the check-out , and then discovered that nobody had any money ! |
| 7 | Both single strands , the homologous SSB and the complementary SSA competed for binding of the protein to the SSB probe . |
| 8 | Ronni felt like weeping with the desire that flowed through her . |
| 9 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 10 | But , Alfa Romeo returned to racing for the first World Championship in 1950 , he was invited to join their team and he finished second in the inaugural championship , having won the Monaco , Belgian and French Grands Prix . |
| 11 | George and Donald decided against looking into the board room and made their way together and silently from the ground . |
| 12 | It is true that Sir Thomas Dugdale insisted on resigning over the Crichel Down case in 1954 but he was not pressed to go . |
| 13 | After reaching the top of the Voie Normale , Sustad and Whillans refrained from continuing to the summit . |
| 14 | Martha delighted in turning on the taps in the bathroom and watching water pour out at her command , and when that attraction palled she took to rushing into the kitchen to watch the maid turn on the fire . |
| 15 | Frantic Bradford took to diving in the box looking for penalties , but Quakers held on , and there was even the unaccustomed spectacle of possession football to waste time in the dying minutes with a chorus of ‘ staying up ’ from the travelling fans in the background . |
| 16 | While everyone waited irritatedly behind her , Phyllis insisted on calling for the supervisor . |
| 17 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 18 | Gabriel took to sitting on the cart-tail and waving to them ; it seemed so ungrateful to speed away from their flattery and blessings . |
| 19 | When Gabriel took to sleeping in the kitchen wagon , Garvey did not object . |
| 20 | An example of this procedure is the Declaration on border controls and immigration which Britain succeeded in appending to the Single European Act . |
| 21 | Huddersfield 's Clem Stephenson had the ability to beat the offside trap of the old-style full-backs ; that it was possible to beat the stopper Chapman showed by pointing to the example of Robert Gurney . |
| 22 | In a separate section of the statement , France joined in calling on the Libyan government to " prove by concrete actions its renunciation of terrorism " . |
| 23 | Miro took to sketching in the ledgers . |
| 24 | But for her , the challenge in Athene lay in bringing to the attentions of the readers items which were not of specifically female concerns . |
| 25 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 26 | And yet again , Charles insisted on flying on the same plane as his sons William and Harry . |
| 27 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 28 | Now her parents and boyfriend , waiting in the hospital , sadly remember how , after the 1991 assault , Lesley talked of going into the Community Service section . |
| 29 | They had their tea together , and Clare delighted in eating from the same plate as Tess . |
| 30 | Arthur Conway turned from looking at the man to Agnes as she quickly explained what she had sold the customer . |