Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 2 | As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many . |
| 3 | Now they were rattling between the massive oaks of Glenvinean . |
| 4 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 5 | When it obtained the Royal Assent , the Criminal Justice Act 1988 had expanded to 173 Sections and sixteen schedules , half as long again as the Bill which had its First Reading in November 1986 , allowing for the separate provisions of the 1987 Act . |
| 6 | The engineering brief was to achieve a 10 per cent gain in performance over the already rapid Turbo R , implying a top speed target of well over 150mph and 0–60mph acceleration in just over six seconds — a tough task , even allowing for the aerodynamic gains in the switch to the coupe shape , in a vehicle weighing at least two-and-a-half tons . |
| 7 | It was this base which , allowing for the unusual circumstances of the General Election of December 1923 , permitted Labour to form its first government early in 1924 . |
| 8 | Allowing for the inevitable delays of London traffic I rang the bell of her flat at six-thirty . |
| 9 | Taylor said : ‘ Even allowing for the big advances in modern medicine , I 've always been a big believer in waiting for an operation to be complete before making any assessment . |
| 10 | When the weather calmed her master spent several days trawling for the missing anchors with grapnels in what the charts said was 30 fathoms of water . |
| 11 | For the same motive Ackroyd is reluctant to broach the unfathomed topic of Dickens and sex ( once memorably described by John Carey as ‘ not a promising subject ’ ) : when Dickens went trawling through the prostitutional regions of Paris with Wilkie Collins , Ackroyd says that ‘ it is unlikely that Dickens himself ever took part in anything more than close observation ’ . |
| 12 | A cloudy , depressing day at Misano is enlivened by the arrival of Mich Doohan , his Rothmans Honda singing through the down changes into the tight , first gear Cattolica lefthander . |
| 13 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 14 | They had begun life catering for the manic requirements of radio 's The Goon Show , which stretched ingenuity to the full , requiring anything from Major Bloodnok 's gastric eruptions to the sound of ‘ a batter pudding whizzing through the air , hitting a wall and slithering to the floor ’ . |
| 15 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |
| 16 | So , though the place was as ill-furnished as it was ill-lit , they hung around there , putting books away in lockers , glancing at newspapers , knocking out their pipes or whipping through the odd bits of marking . |
| 17 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 18 | Manucci 's account of Mughal India is as full of gossip as Bernier 's , but the precarious manner in which he chose to live his life meant that his book has rather more action in it : rather than fussing about the relative merits of Parisian and Mughal architecture , he fights as an artilleryman in the Mughal civil war , has his caravan ambushed by bandits , battles with a pressgang and is finally besieged in a fort on an island in the Indus . |
| 19 | When she got up and walked again — struggling through the exuberant growths of high summer — she noted Edward 's recent efforts at clearance and control . |
| 20 | He had a memory of struggling through the darkened recesses of Roirbak 's labyrinthine abode late at night , blindly knocking things from his path in an effort to reach the sluice drain before his urge to vomit overcame him . |
| 21 | Gerald was uneasy , apologizing for the contending demands of the living and the dead , but Wycliffe was too preoccupied to be reassuring . |
| 22 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 23 | A number of well-known independent brands such as Marker and Volkl continue to play for time , while others are doubtless praying for the white knights of the ski business . |
| 24 | Currently thrilling packed houses with his mellow vocal style and uncompromising ‘ no sell-out ’ cardigans , the singer wishes to point out that though he will be opening for the Happy Mondays at certain venues , he by no means endorses their outrageous and unorthodox lifestyle . |
| 25 | Currently thrilling packed houses with his mellow vocal style and uncompromising ‘ no sell-out ’ cardigans , the singer wishes to point out that though he will be opening for the Happy Mondays at certain venues , he by no means endorses their outrageous and unorthodox lifestyle . |
| 26 | ‘ He held a gun at your neck driving through the busy streets at rush hour ? ’ |
| 27 | All these people should be kept in touch with what is happening during the various stages of production . |
| 28 | Now the Doctor 's companion , the woman and the android were walking through the dark corridors of the castle , trying to find some means of escape . |
| 29 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |
| 30 | That way , by walking between the long tables as if on a tour of inspection , they could view the prospects without embarrassment . |