Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father rushed down and began yelling instructions ; the gentleman and his gillie just stood , mouths open , hardly believing what they were seeing , as Mother struggled and splashed in the river , fighting the salmon with one hand whilst struggling to remain decent with the other . |
| 2 | On a slightly happier note , the Bass Centre would like to thank Johnny Roadhouse in Manchester for helping to retrieve one of the Status Empathy basses whipped from our Northern Music Show . |
| 3 | There is one umpire itching to tell all about the drama of that momentous lunch interval during the Texaco Trophy one-day match at Lord 's which sparked the biggest row in modern cricket . |
| 4 | As the Minister knows , regional development grants have played an important part in helping to replace some of the jobs lost in mining and steel in south Wales . |
| 5 | ‘ We deal in seventeenth- , eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art , and we are looking to find some in the East ’ , says Salander . |
| 6 | Why is the government why is the government refusing to come clean about the size of the further tax increases that British families will face in nineteen ninety five ? |
| 7 | Mr Drake said : ‘ We are seeking to redress some of the ills of our predecessors . |
| 8 | They 've cut the Health and Safety Secretary 's budget for this year , they 're looking to privatize many of the H S E's functions , they 've set up a review to identify health and safety legislation that is a so-called burden on employers . |
| 9 | Emeryville , California-based , Scopus Technology Inc , one of the handful of start-ups vying to score big in the field of customer support software , has hired William Herman as president and chief operating officer . |
| 10 | The district which was due to take over the funding is now claiming that some of the people who are now living in the special units attached to old people 's homes are not their responsibility They did not originally come from their districts and so they are refusing to pay some of the finance over . |
| 11 | So I think the school is in a position of wanting to think more about the problems of the brighter child , but they were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it . |
| 12 | So I think the school is in the position of wanting to think more about the problem of the brighter child , but they certainly were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it . |
| 13 | Immigration and asylum issues had thus far been subject only to intergovernmental co-operation within the EC ( notably through the so-called Trevi group ) , but some member states were seeking to bring this within the orbit of EC competence in negotiations on European political union due to be concluded at the Maastricht summit on Dec. 9-10 . |
| 14 | Jess pressed against the wall as if wanting to become one of the panels . |
| 15 | Are you going to wear those at the disco ? |
| 16 | This is the start of a short series on science , in which we 're going to explore some of the boundaries of our physical universe as we understand it . |
| 17 | All students who graduate from the Buckinghamshire College from 1993 onwards will receive Brunel University degrees — nobody can deny that this is n't going to look good on the CV ! |
| 18 | One Cabinet colleague surveying the scene murmured to me : ‘ There is no way that I am going to grow old in the service of this House . ’ |
| 19 | Funding an operation of this kind required the authorisation of the office of France 's prime minister , Laurent Fabius , and he was certainly not going to give that without the president 's approval . |
| 20 | Cherry stopped him and said what you doing she said George this old man he 's said I 'm going to give this to the manager like he said because I 've been brought all these trolleys back . |
| 21 | So when we went through it , Kevin was going to do all of the careers officers in York but did n't need to do Mary because she 's part of the adult team and therefore Jane and Julie will have to sort her . |
| 22 | Your best bet is to give the person who is going to do most of the riding top priority ; if a five foot five woman and her six foot husband want a horse between them so that she can compete and he can hack , they should find that a 16hh middleweight that is deep through the girth will suit them both . |
| 23 | Just from racing so long I know what it 's going to do most of the time so I can adjust the pressure on the handlebars and know how hard I can drive it into the pavement . |
| 24 | I have now rejoined McKinsey and Co , Management Consultants , and am attempting to put some of the learning into practice ! |
| 25 | Originally you were going to retain some of the trees , and build among the trees ? |
| 26 | Word processors are obviously going to incorporate many of the features found in page makeup or document assembly programs ; text will simply be passed to a parameter file called , say , REPORT and the document will automatically be set out according to the house style . |
| 27 | Kaley I 'm just going to put this in the bin . |
| 28 | And I 'm just going to put this in the bin . |
| 29 | She was not going to permit any of the children to steal a part of her identity . |
| 30 | I think by and large they 're probably running away and do n't want to have much to do with him and they do n't like these people , probably , who use your drop in centre because they might smell a little bit and they might be down at heel and they 're not really people who are going to contribute much to the lives of those other people who are trying to get on and make things better for themselves . |