Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay for some minutes listening to the clatter of boots , slamming of doors and distant shouts before the snorts and squeals of armoured personnel carriers below his window made him realise this was far from normal and was , in fact , an Agile Blade . |
| 2 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ she answered , and went swiftly to her room , to spend some minutes leaning against the door with a dreamy smile on her face . |
| 3 | For example , a neutral statement following on from the sentence about Mary and her teacher was Mary heard some birds singing outside the classroom window . |
| 4 | A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants . |
| 5 | Rachel groaned as her alarm sounded the following Monday morning and , rolling over , she flicked the button to silence it , then lay for a few minutes staring at the ceiling . |
| 6 | The claims involve hardening and in some cases rupturing of the implant and the injuries suffered vary but include auto-immune system disorders such as athritus . |
| 7 | Some solicitors acting for the husband may take a robust view to save their clients costs and , following the court order , may merely dispatch the title deeds to the wife 's solicitors on the basis that the husband has no further interest in them and that they will receive a conveyance for execution by the husband in due course . |
| 8 | The suspended sentence had the disadvantage of seeming to be not quite one thing or the other , with some sentencers succumbing to the temptation of adding to the length of the term of imprisonment which would have been imposed immediately , so balancing the act of suspension with greater severity in the event of a breach . |
| 9 | Some researchers working on the removal and examination of fertilized cells have been able to reject those which were clearly mongoloid , only replacing those known to be able to produce normal infants . |
| 10 | He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in . |
| 11 | Just a few hours looking round the bastide and having a meal together . |
| 12 | It is always tempting to push on , but why not consider the pleasures of a few hours snoozing in the sun followed by a swift descent on hardening snow ? |
| 13 | It is clearly very important to make sure that at learn some of your visits are completely unhurried and timed to suit her convenience , for to many elderly people a few hours relaxing in the company of a son or daughter they love can be an oasis in the desert of their week if they live alone . |
| 14 | Even though hundreds of accountants might be interested in corporate finance , the few opportunities coming onto the market are heavily fought for . |
| 15 | This phenomenon was more marked in the three model biles with few vesicles remaining after the addition of 10 µmol/ml of lecithin . |
| 16 | They met the woman , who took them down some steps leading to the river bank . |
| 17 | One of the few voices crying in the wilderness was that of Farringdon member Gordon Wilson . |
| 18 | There are still some waves breaking in the gap — maybe there are coral heads there . |
| 19 | Use is certainly affected by some characteristics relating to the user — notably the fact that users from different disciplines have different information requirements , and use the literature in different ways . |
| 20 | However , since there are only a few parties competing in the election and many different aspects of government on which they are offering a position , this can be only a very crude way to elicit people 's view of how much of any particular public good should be provided . |
| 21 | 2/Using a piece of white paper handkerchief , rolled into a small ball , wipe out some lines radiating from the horizon . |
| 22 | There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition . |
| 23 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 24 | Some companies operating in the consumer field have also seen the value of group luncheons in generating special features around products which are not very exciting and which do not really merit a series of individual lunches . |
| 25 | He stopped the jeep at the edge of the cornfield , and we observed that the mortar and shell fire were following the canisters as they were landing , leaving a few canisters lying on the ground not far off from where we were . |
| 26 | In man also , performance capabilities for various tasks vary with time of day , with some abilities peaking in the morning and others in the evening . |
| 27 | Certainly Frankenstein had gone away to study — to Ingoldstadt , I now knew — and there spent some years researching into the nature of life . |
| 28 | A long way away , he could hear the sound of some dogs howling at the night sky . |
| 29 | There was a pungent smell from along the hall and some dogs barking out the back . |
| 30 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |