Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 2 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 3 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 5 | Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot . |
| 6 | When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home . |
| 7 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 8 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 9 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 10 | These were films that had been grafted onto the Gaumont-British production programme , rather than emerging out of the script department as projects with potential that called for higher expenditure . |
| 11 | On no account should it be regarded as something through which the traveller passes quickly while hurrying on to the next destination . |
| 12 | Senior ministers and officials are urgently considering cutting back on the number of nuclear warheads carried by Britain 's powerful submarines . |
| 13 | It was a typical late afternoon scene , with the pool full of children playing ball , splashing and laughing , the older ones talking confidentially while holding on to the side , perhaps making assignations that they would have to negotiate with parents to keep . |
| 14 | As well as cashing in on the publicity , Hughes hoped the judge might be persuaded to grant Mitchum parole or postpone his jail term — if it came to that — until he had finished the film . |
| 15 | Their senior branch of railway promoters and philanthropists produced the first Quaker MP Joseph Pease as well as marrying back into the Gurneys . |
| 16 | The arabesque as a gesture changes to give some insight into the character 's moods , emotions and actions , as well as arising out of the rhythmic and melodic phrasing of the music . |
| 17 | You no longer signal when you 're pulling out to overtake , ( unless to warn fast-approaching traffic behind you ) ; nor do you signal right when pulling out from the kerb . |