Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun] [prep] [art] [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 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 3 | Every computer user should seriously consider protecting their system with an uninterrupted power supply . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 6 | It is not the West End galleries however who have been opening their doors to the new generation . |
| 7 | They did n't appear to mind me playing a double game , allying with each in turn , then becoming their opponent at the next round . |
| 8 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 9 | For a while they just stood there , staring down at the boar , satisfying their curiosity after the brief and distant glimpses that they 'd had on the hunt . |
| 10 | To add to the general gothic touch , the now released pigeons fly around depositing their droppings on the dead body . |
| 11 | Police reports on the night claimed that ‘ substantial ’ seizures of cannabis and cocaine had been made — thus effectively labelling those arrested as ‘ crack barons ’ and prejudicing their chances of a fair hearing in court . |
| 12 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Constantine , late in his reign , demolished some temples and confiscated their estates throughout the empire , in-corporating them into the res privata , but keeping their accounts in a special category as fundi iuris templorum . |
| 15 | Those in the lower group of six would play a total of 36 matches with the first two teams keeping their place in the Premier Division while the rest would be relegated in 1994 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | From then until his death in 1099 at the age of fifty-six , El Cid fought a series of dazzling campaigns against the Moors , taking the fortified city of Valencia and making it an impregnable fortress against his enemies When news of his death reached the rest of Spain , men and women wept openly in the streets , tearing their clothing and lacerating their cheeks in an extravagant display of mourning . |
| 18 | Costume Supervisor Daphne Dare designed their appearance , basing their shape on a standard skin-diver 's wet suit . |
| 19 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 20 | It is a well-established convention that a minister should be an MP or a peer ; the Ministers of the Crown Act , 1964 ( in limiting the number of ministers and parliamentary secretaries that can sit in the Commons ) forces the Prime Minister to select a nucleus of ministers from the Lords ; leading figures in the majority party practically demand a Cabinet place — and a ministry of their choice ; new young members need to be nurtured ; and even leaders of factions within the party might have to be given office if only in the hope of softening their opposition to the broad drift of government policy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By 1953 , however , with Conservative rural constituencies pressing their MPs for a rural electrification subsidy , and the Minister looking more favourably on capital expenditure for this purpose , the Area Board chairmen hammered out a national plan for rural electrification , which was finally agreed at an extended and controversial meeting at a country hotel in Moretonhampstead in 1953 . |
| 23 | They looked at each other , then returning their gaze to the far distance there was a silence between them before Mick went on again , ‘ As I see it now , real education is what you get from life : not what life gives you , but what you give to it . |
| 24 | Furthermore , Coutts themselves were undergoing a change in policy , consolidating their business around the wealthy personal customer and shedding some of their ‘ high-risk ’ business accounts . |
| 25 | Shirley ( 4.6 ) and Trevor ( 4.8 ) are looking at the shells and their teacher , noticing their interest in the different kinds , joins with them to initiate a ‘ spontaneous ’ sorting activity . |
| 26 | Many Creole users , both black and white , evoke a " black stereotype " by sprinkling their speech with a few Creolisms , but these are nearly always lexical — tags like man , guy , star , spar , y'know , or cho , or swear words like raas , turaatid , bomboklaat . |
| 27 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 28 | The Old Town harbours a sundry collection of churches , mansions , synagogues , palaces and mosques , winding their way around the narrow lanes and hidden nooks , beckoning the adventurer into the shadows . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It accounts for the curious , rather comical way they have of standing perfectly upright and perfectly still while surveying their surroundings with a quick 240° swivel , like a furry periscope . |