Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.

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1 Additionally , the holder clamp for the lower bearing of the main rotor drive shaft had torn away from the bracket mounting it to the airframe structure .
2 It has been said that regard must be had to the nature of the contract broken , the position of the parties to the contract , the grounds for the breach , the means employed to procure it , the relation of the person procuring it to the person who breaks the contract , and the object of the person procuring the breach .
3 ‘ Jared , ’ said his wife in the motor returning them to the embassy , ‘ was that necessary , or wise ? ’
4 The Woman smashing him to the ground and beating at his face .
5 The cup becomes the retina , and the stalk connecting it to the brain the optic nerve .
6 Printers began the errata business very early , for a 1478 edition of Juvenal lists mistakes on two leaves , the printer attributing them to the carelessness of a workman .
7 The circumstances might well be described as ‘ the bank leaving it to the husband to obtain the presence of the wife at the bank for the purposes of signing the documents . ’
8 ‘ I do n't know why we keep coming here , ’ says an older clown on the bus shuttling us to the big top , ‘ all it does is rain on us and blow us about . ’
9 However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right .
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