Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and Benn has made the grand gesture of giving his new WBC belt to his first conqueror , Michael Watson , who is slowly recovering after the brain damage he suffered against Eubank last year . |
| 2 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 3 | For this diagram the values of single boreholes were linked together depending on the reflectance ranges . |
| 4 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 5 | Carrie had finished cleaning the tables and was busy sweeping the floor when there was a loud knocking on the side door of the dining rooms . |
| 6 | We can see , then , how computers help to develop and extend information , as well as merely acting as the storage medium . |
| 7 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
| 8 | He was constantly dashing from the shop floor to the offices , to his car , to his suppliers , to his customers and back again . |
| 9 | Half an hour later , Jamie Shepherd , who had been patiently waiting in the hospital foyer , drove his granddaughter home . |
| 10 | I wandered off to find Jack Mason and my parents and saw Toby , who was obviously heading for the Press tent , the conference with the winner , and several post-tournament drinks . |
| 11 | Although a few may take up to a week of daily feeding with the culprit food before they respond , this is probably fairly unusual . |
| 12 | Just as the smell of a ripe Camembert is only mouthwatering at the dinner table , the attraction of female odours is likely to depend on their context . |
| 13 | This subtly psychological approach , no doubt based on much headbanging in the advertising agency , was nonetheless open to parody ( see pages 82–3 ) . |
| 14 | After much shuffling from the living room Tom opened the door . |
| 15 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has declared itself a potential purchaser but is apparently negotiating on the asking price which is said to be $2 million . |
| 16 | At the top end there are the programs that seek to reproduce the environment found within a traditional art studio ; PageMaker , XPress and the now defunct Harvard Professional Publisher most closely fit this category , while products such as Ventura seek to provide the same typographic quality through a stylesheet and coded tags so appealing to the business user who needs an easily produced document which follows a common format . |
| 17 | Hiding from the rain in a smoky bar we missed the twelve o'clock chiming of the Town Hall clock . |
| 18 | It has the advantage that current drawn by the arms of the bridge is supplied by the source and so loading of the ratio windings and possible consequential disturbance of the potential difference ratio from is avoided . |
| 19 | Secondly , I tried the 3-day diet which was so depriving during the diet days ( 3 days on , 2 days off ) that I still binged every week , felt terrible mentally and my weight fluctuated ! |
| 20 | Joe played in every remaining Southern League match in that 1907–08 season and in our three FA Cup ties — and he was only missing from the Palace defence by reason of injuries during the next seven seasons . |
| 21 | Turbulence has been observed to appear first of all in small spots restricted laterally as well as axially and presumably forming in the boundary layer . |
| 22 | You can now stride out purposefully along the edge path , across Ashway Rocks ; past the blackened cross in memory of James Platt , MP for Oldham , who was accidentally killed during a grouse shoot last century ; above the mighty Dove Stone Rocks , eventually contouring along the moorland lip high above Chew Brook , which tumbles down one of the deepest and most dramatic valleys in the area . |
| 23 | Torches were already flaring on the castle walls when the first wagons carrying the dismantled mangonels rumbled across the drawbridge . |
| 24 | Now , I would suggest you start that physically bringing in the Christmas tree . |
| 25 | Catkins were already fluttering on the nut hedge behind Albert 's house and the sky was a pale translucent blue , as tender as a thrush 's egg-shell . |
| 26 | After visiting the Hayward Gallery I spent a half-hour just gazing along the river line , the historic buildings sharp in the clear , cold , sunny air . |
| 27 | These are added to remove stains and oxidise matter thus assisting in the cleaning process . |
| 28 | Although Chester has several establishments already catering for the conference trade , the indications are that there is still significant undercapacity . |
| 29 | It supports up to 15 drives per controller pair , thus appearing to the host computers as several very large SCSI-2 devices . |
| 30 | OCLC waives its charges for the use of most services , thus contributing to the teaching resources of participating schools . |