Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second in command , Paul Hancock , says they 'll be acting as back up to the Desert Rats at bases in the north-east of Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | So you were just lying listening to music in between the chair and the couch ? |
| 3 | According to chitchat out at the recent SunWorld Expo in California , initial versions of the 32-bit superscalar part are expected produce 100 SPECmarks , and if everything goes well , then it 'll reportedly be closer to the 200 SPECmark range . |
| 4 | It is not the book that you stay up huffing and mewing with laughter over until the middle of the night — that is either Dervla Murphy 's Muddling Through in Madagascar ( Arrow Books , 1990 ) or Sir David Attenborough 's original Zoo Quest to Madagascar , which richly deserves reprinting . |
| 5 | And some men at the top in little old Moscow are not sure how it is going to work out in the end . |
| 6 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 7 | So it was a change of kit before jogging in step over to the gymnasium for physical jerks followed by boxing instruction . |
| 8 | The base wood of the plant therefore grows higher each year and we get the familiar ‘ bush rose ’ consisting of 1 ft ( 0.3m ) , 2 ft ( 0.6m ) or even more of old , bare and barky wood , with the current year 's bloom-bearing growth starting from way up in the air ! |
| 9 | And this policeman , I were coming down Lane off over the hump back bridge . |
| 10 | Apart from that everything else running to time through until the ten o'clock London Kings Cross service out of platform three . |
| 11 | Trestles were being set up along both sides of the room , but only a few sombrely dressed ladies were seated , the rest of the company apparently preferring to mill about in the centre of the hall . |