Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William set sail late on 27 September 1066 , landing near Pevensey the following morning with little apparent opposition . |
| 2 | Thenceforth Waismann acted as the spokesman for Wittgenstein 's point of view within the Vienna Circle , representing with Schlick the conservative wing in the evolution of logical positivism . |
| 3 | Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 4 | The man did the same again as he turned the paper , revealing to Mungo the front page with its lurid headline : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH . |
| 5 | On the whole , George Milton is a good , honest man who has a difficult life to lead , looking after Lennie the simple giant . |
| 6 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 7 | While Bonnie Dundee was establishing in Scotland the Jacobite tradition of romantic failure a different legend was being born in Ireland , that of ‘ No surrender ’ , the slogan adopted by the protestant defenders of Londonderry . |
| 8 | According to Eccleshall the Conservative Party , like Faust , has always been able to declare ‘ Two souls together live in my breast ’ , with the philosophy of a strong , paternalist authority competing with the notion of a strong , non-interventionist authority . |
| 9 | Due to ship in 1994 , with an estimated product turnaround time of 90 days , the monster nCube 3 follows the same architecture as the previous nCube 2 models , enabling software compatibility across the range — the nCube president insists the new machine ‘ uses no magic ’ , and claims a full 65,000-processor configuration will be completely feasible — according to Meirer the whole thing would measure just 20 square feet , compared with Thinking Machines Inc 's Sparc-based TeraFLOPS-performance CM-5 which is estimated by Thinking 's Danny Hillis to measure the size of a tennis court in full 16,000-processor configuration . |
| 10 | According to G.B.S. the last thing of importance that had happened in this agricultural community was , perhaps , the Flood . |
| 11 | ( According to Worsley the associated notion of a ‘ pressure group ’ forms the bridge between formal and informal politics . ) |
| 12 | According to Subaire the new party would serve Moslems in the enclave who for years had had to rely on other parties to include Moslem representatives among their candidates . |
| 13 | These ten were leading nurserymen in the London area around 1720 and Miller , writing to Blair the following year , acknowledged their help . |
| 14 | I was looking at Euston the other day and thinking how much lighter it would be if they had glass instead of that wood and flashing . |
| 15 | On trying to get this going in Hartlepool the other week they attracted about six men . |
| 16 | Milton is paying to Eden the highest compliment in his power . |
| 17 | Before going to China the Indonesian delegation went to Japan for Emperor Akihito 's enthronement on Nov. 12 [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 18 | ’ Describing to Louise the heroic quest for style that Madame Bovary represents ( April 19th , 1852 ) , he explains : ‘ How many times have I fallen flat on my face , just when I thought I had it within my grasp . |
| 19 | The article was terminated by a line of words beginning with B. The empty reproduction of information ( a contagion of the Eighties ) does not contribute to rational knowledge and reasoned thought . |
| 20 | The first person says a name and place beginning with A. The second person says one beginning with B and so on . |
| 21 | Britain has already implemented 60 per cent of the required changes , sharing with Denmark the best record among the 12 , and the Prime Minister put pressure on her EC partners to move faster . |
| 22 | We 're hoping to say with on Thursday night , and then Friday & Saturday I will be at Hanbury Manor ( what a hardship ! ) , sharing with Heather the first night and Auntie the second . |
| 23 | The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend . |
| 24 | Last week Citicorp , America 's second-biggest bank , announced that Christopher Steffen would be joining in June the five-man team that runs the bank . |
| 25 | I was saying to Pauline the other day , there 's some people you grow old with , willy-nilly , without noticing it — not that we are n't all wearing pretty well . ’ |
| 26 | . Oh no , as I was saying to Reed the other day , er Reed has joined our class by the way . |
| 27 | But er I was saying to Mrs the other day , asked about Scott what the heck ! |
| 28 | Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er |
| 29 | But as I was saying to George the other day |
| 30 | After they were finally discovered to be there , the minister pleaded for them to be allowed to stay the night , and guaranteed they would be at the Children 's Panel Hearing in Kirkwall the next day . |