Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 2 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 3 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 4 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 5 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 6 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 7 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 8 | The local name of the place , the Gold Pit , implies that a good deal of gold was robbed from the site before the French archaeologists started excavating it in the 1920s , and there is good reason to suppose that the so-called Aegina Treasure , which is now in the British Museum , originated here . |
| 9 | She started towing him towards the back room . |
| 10 | Boiling with rage , yet forced to keep a fixed smile on her face while Carole Meadows continued showing them around the small guest cottage , Laura could barely contain her fury . |
| 11 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |
| 12 | The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street . |