Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus alerted , a sub-committee of the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association met on the following morning and resolved that the danger could only be met by " a central organization of owners for the purpose of protecting their interests against the unreasonable demands and actions of trade unions or combinations affecting such interests " . |
| 2 | It is to the reptiles themselves one must turn to find the greatest display of armoured scales that are all-enveloping , protecting their wearers over the whole surface of the body . |
| 3 | It is not the West End galleries however who have been opening their doors to the new generation . |
| 4 | To add to the general gothic touch , the now released pigeons fly around depositing their droppings on the dead body . |
| 5 | Soon after they got up — which was always late , which was lunchtime — he and Rufus went in swimming , keeping their feet off the gravelly or slimy bottom and their arms clear of the blanket weed which was like green hair . |
| 6 | The work also voiced taboos and silenced areas in an attempt to make visible shared and common experiences , revealing their roots in the social and cultural rather than the personal . |
| 7 | Besides the more obvious areas for employment , actuaries are to be found applying their skills in the academic world , in computer development , operational research and as business consultants . |
| 8 | Oh , they were my daily joy , Dirty Dick , Harry , Bert , Prickwillow , working on the green baize under the bench lights , the elastic band round the grey heads holding the jeweller 's eyeglass or checking their tolerances with the white-coated draughtsmen , or rouging the last tenth of a thou from a newly-turned and bored brass centimetric attenuator . |
| 9 | Their animals , richly caparisoned for the tourists , were munching at green piles of clover and swatting their tails against the early flies . |
| 10 | And finally , surfers and canoeists have been pitting their skills against the biggest River Severn tidal wave of the year . |
| 11 | Many top speedway riders will be pitting their skills in the National motor cycle grass track meeting . |
| 12 | Eventually he decided to give them their marching orders , and one spring , just before the birds were due to arrive , he nailed wire netting and a large dustbin bag along the eaves to stop them building their nests in the usual place . |
| 13 | Bernice and Defries were lying on the floor , edging backwards while firing their blasters at the black-robed androids . |
| 14 | Two more of the creatures hovered around the craft , walking over the wings and flashing their teeth at the hysterical passengers . |
| 15 | Charlie Woods , director of Scottish Enterprise 's Scottish and international operations , said that Scotland 's success in attracting the ninth Europartenariat offered a great opportunity for small and medium-size companies to make real progress in realising their ambitions on the European stage . |
| 16 | are trapped while still using their insights regarding the economic or social bases of Thatcherism . |
| 17 | Car drivers are banned from using their cars in the capital one day each week — although many have circumvented the ban by purchasing a second car . |
| 18 | It had a painted chest of drawers and tiny wardrobe and she fell asleep enjoying their shapes in the fading light . |
| 19 | Until the 1870s the larger cities of industrial western Germany , such as Cologne and Dusseldorf , were fed by the peasants of the surrounding region bringing their supplies to the weekly market . |
| 20 | Yes , erm , when Harlow was designed , it was appreciated that its , the , its purpose was to house workers in the factories and the offices and also to act as an overspill from London , and in nineteen sixty when Cossors were bringing their workers by the hundreds |
| 21 | Englishwomen , some pushing their pushchairs along the winding muddy roads , other older ones fanning their faces with trembling hands and still wearing their coloured woolly hats . |
| 22 | This pins the souls of the dead to these places , letting the ghosts guard the lands they love and saving their spirits from the terrible prospect of being devoured by the Gods of Chaos . |
| 23 | But shareholders can still make their investment work for them — by filling their trolleys at the right superstores this weekend . |
| 24 | Mr Patrick McIntyre , a South London publican and former New Scotland Yard detective who wrote a regular crime column for the South London Chronicle , was another who cast doubt on the Hooligan panic , accusing newspapers of being in their ‘ silly season ’ and of taking the matter up merely ‘ as a suitable and sensational means of filling their columns at the present moment ’ . |
| 25 | The women of the other crofts were already at the burn , filling their pails at the freezing cold stream . |
| 26 | However , it is likely that they too could use the channel by bouncing their calls off the continental shelves which slope down into it . |
| 27 | They had no sooner skidded to a halt , than the crews had the hoses run out and were training their jets on the leaping flames . |
| 28 | Several chandlers are revising their catalogues for the new year . |
| 29 | Suddenly the river was full of plunging bodies going to the rescue , barking dogs and screaming girls mingling their cries with the masterful ones of the menfolk . |
| 30 | Crossing the humpy floor , I looked out of a doorless doorway and saw , half hidden in the grass , the red tiles of the porch where the young Harvey-Beaumonts had sat , celebrating St George 's Day by tapping their feet to the brassy music of the band of the Black and Tans . |