Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Schofield was arrested on Tuesday after walking into a police station in London . |
| 2 | But the Code will also apply where a suspect , not in detention , is being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as a police officer for the purpose of obtaining evidence . |
| 3 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 4 | ‘ That was not felt to be the most suitable way of proceeding in this matter , ’ he says , sounding like a police spokesman for the first time . |
| 5 | I am likely to be going to a Sports Dinner with my company ( who sponsor Crewe Alexandra ) this month . |
| 6 | Labour is accusing Mrs Thatcher of dodging a discussion on Britain 's entry into the Euro Monetary System ; they say she 's chosen to avoid speaking in a Commons debate on the issue because she 's humiliated by the U-turn entry has meant for her . |
| 7 | Shortly before the attack , Mick had been dancing at a Singles Night at the Wiltshire Hotel . |
| 8 | The crowd were streaming away , muttering about a Rovers run of one win in 11 matches , when Birch hit a hopeful 30-yarder with the match 45 seconds into injury-time . |
| 9 | She was always clutching a fistful of sweets or biting into a between-meals snack of bread and condensed milk or scraping out bowls in which Aunt Margaret had mixed cake . |
| 10 | From the 1840s public anxiety had also been focused on prostitution , the ‘ great social evil ’ , by studies from evangelical clerics and medics , and by rescue and reform societies campaigning for a police crackdown on the London streets . |
| 11 | Lewis and the Western Isles in general have suffered greatly through the folly of successive governments in negotiating for a fisheries policy within the EEC on a national instead or a regional basis . |
| 12 | Their whole day was spent arguing with a customs official over the contents of their truck . |
| 13 | UK , Leeds-based VisonWare Ltd 's mystery announcement ( UX No 389 ) turned out to be a technology partnership with fellow UK company Alex Technologies Ltd , Ealing , West London : the two are working on a Windows version of Alex development environment , which currently allows an X-Windows front end to be added to character-based applications . |