Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished Beuno was there , standing by the stream and gazing through the alders at the flower-printed meadow . |
| 2 | In a multiprogramming computer system , then , we have a number of processes competing for the resources of the computer , such as main storage areas , processor time , and access to transput devices . |
| 3 | Now I can not bear the darkness and have to keep on relighting the candle , fumbling for the matches in the total darkness . |
| 4 | She looked up as Sophie returned , leafing through the pages of the veterinary register . |
| 5 | Below him , Fleury raced along outside the churchyard wall under the bayonets of the galloping sepoys , touching off the trains to the fougasses . |
| 6 | Even allowing for the passions of the moment , the story is probably true ; it is thoroughly in keeping with Pétain 's character ( and the 33rd was suffering from lack of discipline when he took it over ) . |
| 7 | The memory of lightning flaring between the cracks in the boards and me pushing home the four-inch nails with numb fingers arrived simultaneous with the patter of descending footsteps … |
| 8 | PREACHING about the dangers of the Ecstasy drug wo n't stop youngsters trying it . |
| 9 | It penetrates the carcase of its prey at one end , usually the head end , and it may actually leave the skin intact while progressively eating through the insides of the animal . |
| 10 | A weak sun was rising off to the east over the distant buildings and its pale light was filtering through the branches of the trees about him . |
| 11 | I do feel on the question of whether we are bringing people into the Harrogate area or catering for the needs of the residential population . |
| 12 | The council says the scheme will give pedestrians greater comfort and safety as well catering for the needs of the disabled . |
| 13 | First , he comments on the king 's astuteness in seeing through the arguments of the heretics , though he implies that for some while Clovis had been persuaded by them . |
| 14 | The Father broke away from the knot of priests , shrugging off the efforts of the men to restrain him , and came across to Owen . |
| 15 | Are those the candy-floss , Mickey Mouse jobs that the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) goes on about so much , or are those people just sponging off the backs of the poll tax payers ? |
| 16 | Robert could just make out a thin line of boys struggling through the trees at the edge of the horizon . |
| 17 | On reflecting about the activities of the last year I looked up enterprise in ’ Roget 's Thesaurus ’ . |
| 18 | Men sitting in the turrets of their reconnaissance tanks , men riding camels , and men driving through the streets of the capital , N'Djamena . |
| 19 | They were driving through the suburbs in the valley far below the ancient hill settlement forming the historic core of the city . |
| 20 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 21 | When I worked as a primary school teacher I sometimes retrieved that feeling with a particular clarity , walking between the tables on the hard floor , all the little looms working but needing my constant adjustment . |
| 22 | The FA has taken the extraordinary step of bringing the clubs to book because of the tightrope football is walking between the laws of the game and the law of the land . |
| 23 | Before I could reply a shell burst a short distance away sending a hail of shrapnel tearing through the branches of the trees above us . |
| 24 | Bingham hit out after Charlton had written-off Northern Ireland 's chances of qualifying for the finals in the United States in two years . |
| 25 | They made 165 from their 47 overs , with Robinson top-scoring on 55 , and Haynes , Richardson and Richards had no trouble in knocking off the runs for the loss of two wickets . |
| 26 | Parkside were another team which benefitted from batting second , they put visitors Fisons in to bat and bowled then out for 62 , knocking off the runs for the loss of only one wicket . |
| 27 | The Ghost , weaving through the roofs of the Main Face , now stands at E3 to give a remarkable route . |
| 28 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 29 | Now the Australians are bidding for the Olympics in the year 2000 , the plan being to hoist the Olympic rings at the SCG . |
| 30 | When , after 1880 , we began to see emerging new philosophies to provide the intellectual underpinning for the foundations of the welfare state that were being laid between 1880 and 1914 , Mill might have supplied the economic doctrine , but the conceptions of order and progress utilized the methods , if not the ideologies , of the social evolutionists . |