Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 2 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 3 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 4 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 5 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 6 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 7 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 8 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 9 | And somehow , he could n't imagine either of them coming around to the house for some beers and a pizza and a John Wayne movie on the video . |
| 10 | They do not fly at ordinary room temperatures and they crawl only slowly , so there will not be much danger of them crawling out of the container and escaping . |
| 11 | And the two of them shuffling in with the hoods of their duffel coats over their heads and their school scarves pulled over noses and mouths like a pair of monks doing the rounds during the Black Death . |
| 12 | Taking a break from country hideaways , we hunted for a retreat in central London for those of you staying over for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition treat ( see page 150 ) . |
| 13 | His only certain memory of his mother was of her looking out of the same kitchen window and calling to him as he played on the grass . |
| 14 | He stood there blankly , not knowing what to say or do , remembering only the sound of her crying out in the darkness and how awful he had felt , alone , kneeling there on the dyke , impotent to act . |
| 15 | She did n't like the idea of him prowling around inside the house while she was working . |
| 16 | ‘ Is there any chance of him coming out in the near future , do you think ? ’ |
| 17 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 18 | It was n't a warm day though it was meant to be spring , and she felt colder thinking of him standing about in the mud of a building site . |
| 19 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 20 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 21 | thought it should be in there cos it 's normally Okay now all that happens here if you if you think of it going back to the picture with the the magnets or the electrostatic charges or or bonds whatever you like to think of it . |
| 22 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 23 | It was of the two of us leaning up against the Arch of Titus in Rome — we had bullied some fellow tourist into taking it for us . |
| 24 | I sat down beside her , both of us gazing out through the mist at the heaving , pounding water , the noise of it thundering in our ears , filling our whole world with sound . |
| 25 | We were following a long , straight road in visibility of about twenty yards , all of us hanging out of the windows in a vain attempt to spot landmarks , when a ghostly figure loomed up , saluted , and announced in long-suffering tones , ‘ Excuse me sir , Mr Mills , you 're on the main runway ! ’ |
| 26 | I got to my feet and stood by Taff at the gun , both of us staring out into the night . |
| 27 | For those of us staring down into the yawning chasm of the generation gap it really is n't so bad , you know . |
| 28 | One of the cutter commanders remarked later , " I shall never forget the radar picture that night with the four of us closing in on the suspect . " |
| 29 | At the weekend there was a bunch of us playing down in the alley-way near Julie 's house . |