Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 2 | The occasional guard braved the discomfort for a few minutes before retiring to the cool of the corridors . |
| 3 | They roused the occupants of some houses by knocking on the door and holding Bartle up to the windows to be seen by those inside . |
| 4 | If they timed it just right they could scavenge for a few hours before going to the Royalty in Ladbroke Grove for the Saturday morning minors . |
| 5 | Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) . |
| 6 | After the election , despite some doubts about relying on the FDP , Brandt quickly moved to establish an SPD-FDP coalition . |
| 7 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 8 | In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant . |
| 9 | South-East Gully can be entered from a lower point , so dispensing with a few feet of scrambling above the climbs . |
| 10 | The worst affected was a 1935 Lagonda tourer which had been stored in a barn for some years before passing into the Museum 's hands . |
| 11 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd fetch her home , clean her up , straighten her out and take care of her for as long as she 'd let me , but the call of the wild was strong and after a few days of sleeping on the couch , she 'd vanish again . |
| 13 | Howard had tried all the proprietary athlete 's foot remedies , but found they were only partially effective ; the infection would always return with a vengeance within a few days of discontinuing with the ointment or powder . |
| 14 | After a short incubation period the fertilized eggs transform into medusa — tiny pear-shaped animals with rapidly beating hair-like cilia which are then released into the water and have a limited ability to swim and survive among the plankton for a few days before settling on the sea bed . |
| 15 | They would be noticeable for a few days after passing into the camp , unfamiliar faces asking the way to the lavatories , or being excused washing-up by the people in whose rooms they had been placed . |
| 16 | Perhaps the gearbox to transfer box oil seal is faulty , but when I check the oil levels a few weeks after filling to the correct level a small amount is missing from the main box , a much greater amount from the transfer box and the overdrive is full or near full , ? |
| 17 | If abstractions such as ‘ bureaucracy ’ and ‘ classical management ’ theories provide some ways of thinking about the management ideology at work in our schools , what practical evidence do we have ? |
| 18 | But , after a few seconds of delighting in the feel of her delicate skin on his , he pulled back , and never , as Fabia shyly looked into his dark eyes , had she seen such a joyous expression on a man . |
| 19 | The high cost of substituting plain white for stained glass deterred some churchwardens from complying with the government 's orders , while many others were motivated to hide and preserve sacred objects by an enduring spirit of Catholic piety . |
| 20 | The practice in some societies of chopping off the hands of thieves has ( among other things ) this kind of incapacitatory effect . |
| 21 | The Rothmans Honda team leader , in his ‘ home ’ grand prix , came under early pressure from defending champion Wayne Rainey , who was anxious to score some points after crashing in the opening round in Japan two weeks ago . |
| 22 | At the last Parish Council meeting it was agreed to buy some bulbs for planting around the centre of the village . |
| 23 | I measured the scar on your mum 's tum last night , it 's six and half inches without allowing for the |
| 24 | Again , wait a few moments before walking towards the dog , assuming it does stay , so as not to cause it to bound off . |
| 25 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 26 | 4.2.5 notify such modifications in writing to the Landlord and the Tenant |
| 27 | We tried to avoid such adventures by sticking to the deeper channels and harbours , but some guests demanded we anchor in the shallower lagoons where the rays glided above the bright sand and the grey snappers schooled and the barracudas patrolled . |
| 28 | As er already mentioned some local authorities have already implemented such schemes by going to the expense of introducing private legislation through parliament . |
| 29 | For practical reasons , fieldworkers adopted a policy in these cases of knocking at the door of the nearest house of a similar type ; since the survey was based on geographical area and housing type , this seemed a reasonable way of obtaining data from a range of addresses while conserving time and resources . |
| 30 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |