Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 2 | At his trial in April , Willett admitted registering the useful Flat performer Cecconi as Champagne Lover with the Arab Horse Society , and then taking the animal to Market Rasen for a Society race . |
| 3 | Bulmer admitted stealing the tools valued at £88 . |
| 4 | Edward stopped using the title and arms of France for eight years , and only resumed them when war began again after Charles V had taken advantage of the failure to carry out the renunciation clauses and heard appeals in his court from discontented subjects of the Black Prince in Aquitaine . |
| 5 | But after listening to Lord Ritchie Calder speaking about Pugwash , the committee of scientists to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons , and Steven Rose condemning the use of CS gas in Northern Ireland , I could never again retreat into the comforting vision of the scientist as an impartial observer . |
| 6 | * Other words which carry presuppositions are the adverbial words and phrases which mean " again " ( ITERATIVES ) : Emily Brontë began writing the novel once more . |
| 7 | With more violent shakes of the head , Eleanor began demolishing the second tissue . |
| 8 | The service also proved a modest success , and Branson began exploring the possibility of flying to Dublin , and to Miami , on a route which had not been taken up by a British carrier since the collapse of Laker . |
| 9 | In desperation , Ari started marking the days off on a chart , just so she could see the rime they had left on the road diminishing . |
| 10 | His accomplished team started them off but with-drew support when O'Rourke started promot-ing the soap . |
| 11 | S'a bit boring the way it is , this room . ’ |
| 12 | Hari said watching the young boy 's face . |
| 13 | Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice . |
| 14 | After their feud hit the headlines , Broccolli ceased conducting the secret auditions and made Moore an offer he could n't refuse to play Bond several more times . |
| 15 | In addition to the murder conspiracy Deane admitted joining the IRA when she was only 17 , and to possessing a number of firearms between January and June 1991 . |
| 16 | Nell finished pouring the boiling water into a mug as Grant checked his watch . |
| 17 | As they approached the curved horn of the dead bull , Nathaniel Sherman began pumping the hand of his eldest son in congratulation . |
| 18 | Jane dreaded broaching the subject to Christopher . |
| 19 | Pete finished putting the pieces out on the board and swivelled it around . |
| 20 | But the thing that fascinated me last night was the statistic about Gillette do you know they said when Gillette started When Gillette started doing the erm Gillette Cup , it cost them five thousand a year . |
| 21 | Only recently has British Telecom started modernising the equipment , introducing colour terminals for instance . |
| 22 | As Simon did not answer his question Hugh lay watching the sunlight on the water through the open door . |
| 23 | They could listen to the pipe bands and Tina liked watching the Highland dancers on the raised platform . |
| 24 | Nell continued watching the flaring heat . |
| 25 | Gingerly she lowered the sweet-tempered child into the cot , not taking her eyes from her exquisite face , Ruth stood gripping the sides of the cot with fingers whitened in an attempt at stopping them shaking . |
| 26 | Kaye enjoyed helping the group but found that it eroded her own identity . |
| 27 | Lecturer Jane Wirgman began teaching the Bard 's insults as a way of introducing Shakespeare to remand prisoners at her English classes in Norwich Prison , Norfolk . |
| 28 | In the case of working class women , intervention by primarily middle class volunteers or state officials often served to increase their burdens by exacting higher standards of childcare and housekeeping — what Anna Martin called holding the mother to her task of making bricks without straw — and punishing her if she failed . |
| 29 | Government targets already agreed with the IMF included reducing the fiscal deficit from 6.1 per cent in 1989 to 2.5 per cent in 1990 ; reducing inflation from 89.3 per cent to 37.7 per cent in 1990 and to 30 per cent in 1991 ; and achieving growth of 2 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) during 1990 . |
| 30 | Brooke-Rose started writing the novel in 1964 , but she became blocked and eventually put it aside in order to write Such . |