Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Barlow era in the Transvaal looks like coinciding with the official end of Clive Rice 's Transvaal career . |
| 2 | Mr Akashi insists on looking on the bright side : Khmer Rouge artillery was known to be inaccurate and their shells often failed to explode , he said . |
| 3 | Instead , Robson settles for looking at the League table . |
| 4 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 5 | The root of the confusion for later cases is that Lord Denning M.R. begins by approving of the Lord Hewart C.J. test and ends by talking of real likelihood . |
| 6 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 7 | The convention is sustained , but subtly mocked , in Twelfth Night , where Viola , bearing the suit of Orsino , waits until Maria leaves before launching into the higher style appropriate to romance ( I.v.167ff . ) . |