Example sentences of "of [indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Some people might say I do n't show any emotion but every time a goal went in there always seemed to be a picture of someone jumping up from the bench .
2 I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them .
3 ‘ That is the talk of one casting around in the dark , ’ said Ipuky with a smile like the light covering of frost which , on hard nights in the middle of peret , fringes the rushes on the banks of the river .
4 The traveller was then grilled by the corrupt Indian border officials : ‘ Their custom was to take a quarter of everything brought in by the merchants and to exact a duty of seven dinars for every horse . ’
5 Going to the committee meetings once a month and then keeping the new mums informed of anything going on within the Central Branch .
6 Going to the committee meetings once a month and then keeping the groups informed of anything going on within the Central Branch .
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