Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some two hours later the whole party sat , exhausted and silent , in deckchairs on the terrace of Sven Hjerson 's hotel , sipping half-heartedly at cups of abominable tea and looking without seeing anything at the wide sweep of the Bay of Naples spread out far below them . |
| 2 | At about 0345 it was decided to try to position Locative in a better position for helicopter winching by towing her into the wind . |
| 3 | ‘ We thank the Government for relaxing these but this is rather like thanking somebody for refraining from hitting you on the head with a heavy stick , ’ said Brendan Burns , the federation 's Scottish-based UK vice-chairman . |
| 4 | Mm well thanks for your thoughts Peter echoing what everybody else has said and er thanks for coming on telling us about the new trees as well . |
| 5 | This was partly due to ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , remixed by Stock , Aitken and Waterman and her third single on the PWL label , succeeding in breaking her in the all-important American market when it climbed to number three in the US charts . |
| 6 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 7 | As the BBC 's funding was ‘ assured ’ , it could pursue quality in programming without concerning itself with the needs of the public for , say , popular entertainment . |
| 8 | I was also excited at the prospect of earning some reward , and I could n't sleep that night for thinking about visiting her in the morning . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 10 | As a matter of fact , I 'm thinking of offering her to The Lancet . |
| 11 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 12 | If you are a mother-to-be or planning on becoming one in the near future join Harpers & Queen On Location on Wednesday 11 April for our Maternity Workshops at Harrods , Knightsbridge , SW1 . |