Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus from a very narrow and restricted expression there has been drawn a very wide and unrestricted principle , all based on the assumed purpose of Parliament and the perceived absurdity of seeking to effect it by the language in which Parliament actually chose to express it . |
| 2 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 3 | Ken kept his sheet music in the one he had constructed in the small back bedroom , so fear of splashing kept it on the whole unused . |
| 4 | At no time during his life did Vincent show any sign of wanting to involve himself in the socialist movements of his day . |
| 5 | To schematise , the British working class has not been ready to run the risks of attempting to constitute itself as the ruling class , of putting forward concrete proposals for working class control over industry and finance and fighting seriously to achieve them . |
| 6 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 7 | Why did n't Luke damn well help him , instead of threatening to throw him off the film ? |
| 8 | It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom . |
| 9 | Bob Howe , Bus Driver , says it was the bus company 's way of saying thank you to the children for their good behaviour . |
| 10 | ‘ Thank God that I am not answerable to any higher authority ; but were I in the position of having to justify myself before the great British public , even I would find it difficult to defend your priorities . ’ |
| 11 | Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools . |
| 12 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 13 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 14 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 15 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 16 | A Some of these sucking type catfish have this habit of trying to attach themselves onto the sides of other fish . |
| 17 | In spite of trying to help them on the voyage , Margery was left alone at Dover . |