Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [prep] the [noun] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Things are becoming intolerable at the club these days and the boot sale is only part of it .
2 Young orangs living free in the forest all day return in the afternoon for their meal of bananas and milk .
3 The NT File System ( NTFS ) has only adequate space efficiency , lacking many of the innovations some Unix file systems offer .
4 All the boats were getting ready for the regatta that afternoon , bailing out dinghies , coiling ropes , and smells of food frying wafted across the smell of the estuary .
5 When in Ephesians 4:3,4 Paul is sketching some of the things all Christians have in common , he has this to say : ‘ Endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace .
6 But , after watching some of the internationals this season , I think that these rival friendships must have worn pretty thin judging by the number of collapsed scrummages in games .
7 I tried telling some of the teachers that .
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