Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He negotiated Malaya 's independence from the United Kingdom two years later and was the country 's first Prime Minister , overseeing the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 , and during the next two years withstanding the threat of " Confrontation " with Indonesia and taking the difficult decision that Singapore secede from the Federation . |
| 2 | Barat then returns , encounters Travers , and succeeds in imitating Marie and obtaining the meat in order to perform a bizarre ritual to preserve it from theft : ( To touch both arse and cunt three times ) |
| 3 | We booked into our luxury hotel before visiting Orchard Road , Little India , Empress Palace , climbing Faber Hill and touring the grim Changi Prison . |
| 4 | Also at Pentire , Martin climbed Another Nervous Breakdown , E6± 6B , starting right of Darkinbad and climbing the wall eventually to join Last Leviathan , while Beneath Black Waters , E6 6B , is a direct line up the triangular wall right of Siren 's Cry with a roof as its crux : powerful stuff . |
| 5 | Pingel got the vital score after taking a pass from Brian Laudrup and slotting the ball past helpless Albanian keeper Foto Strakosha from close range . |
| 6 | The BBC does n't deserve our support if it insists on betraying Selina Scott and promoting the less charming Esther Rantzen |
| 7 | It is fired by stirring memories of Celtic beating the mighty Juventus and thrashing the once-great Sporting Lisbon . |
| 8 | This ‘ plain paper typesetter ’ — a term already used by AM Varityper to describe their 600dpi VT600 — can handle 20,000 pages per month and runs either under its own drivers or through a PostScript interpreter developed by Printware and using the Bitstream font library . |
| 9 | First , by borrowing the Big Ideas and process technology that come from the United States and providing the hardworking , low-paid workers , developing nations can achieve competitive advantage . |
| 10 | It is therefore unsettling to find you pushing an ‘ energy policy ’ for the United States and following the old , oft-disproven notion that we are ‘ running out of oil ’ ( January 26th ) . |
| 11 | Option 4 : passing west of Bilston and rejoining the A701 around Milton Bridge would also be safer than Option 1 but would mean the loss of parts of Pentland Caravan Park and pass through farmland . |
| 12 | Martin Crowe set the South African bowlers back on their heels by ignoring his safety-first opener John Wright and sending the pugnacious left-hander Mark Greatbatch in first with Latham . |
| 13 | But dawn had already reached inside the grey stone walls , touching them with fingers of amethyst , softening the austerity of Castell Rocamar and rendering the place almsot pretty . |
| 14 | Recovering from the scandal of the Bank of Crete and dumping the policies that caused Greece 's public debt to triple as a share of GDP during the 1980s , the Socialists now lead the opinion polls . |
| 15 | He heard the sounds of merriment coming from the Manse , and he knew that Madra would be in there , pouring wine for Bragad and suffering the leers of drunk men . |
| 16 | I think we have something like a hundred and twenty nationalities living in Kuwait and enjoying the free school , the free hospital . |
| 17 | The stage is high , deterring those who see the stage as their personal Kuwait and giving the laser-lit silhouettes of the Inspirals real presence when they arrive to a pre-recorded keyboard and mooing groove . |
| 18 | Simultaneously with doing the evening performances — two on Saturday , at five and eight — he was recording episodes of Beyond Our Ken and making the latest ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry On Constable- and it began to show with the way Pieces of Eight proceeded . |
| 19 | The mine-workers have always preferred lengthy day-release courses for active members , usually organised through extra-mural departments of the WEA and pre-dating the 1975 entitlements , to the more limited TUC courses ( more limited in three senses : they are shorter , they are role training , and they are only for representatives ) . |
| 20 | If you have taken the previous walk around the Hradčany leave the Strahov Monastery by Úvoz Street , the road originally connecting the Hradčany with the Malá Strana and marking the boundary between the two districts . |
| 21 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 22 | His most famous poem is ‘ Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae ’ , modelled on the first ode in book iv of Horace and containing the well-known refrain ‘ I have been faithful to thee , Cynara ! in my fashion . ’ |
| 23 | So er this this one is setting everybody up for May and starting the the process for erm for June the the Euros and well to a certain extent we 're building up already for any any editor content . |
| 24 | Ten years later , on a visit to Burnley and practising the skills of the oral historian , I talked to my grandmother , and she , puzzled , told me that Edna had never worked in any office , had in fact been apprenticed to a dry cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending . |
| 25 | The image of suddenly being called in to take over from George Birkitt and astounding the critics with his unsung brilliance was one that would not go away , however hard he tried to suppress it . |
| 26 | She caught her usual bus , but instead of getting off at Frankfurter Allee and catching the S-Bahn to Biesdorf , she stayed on it , all the way to Ostkreuz where , like Herr Nordern once before her , she made her way to Ostkreuz Police Station . |
| 27 | It is also fiercely critical of the Government 's health policies , claiming there has been ‘ increasing political interference ’ in the NHS and attacking the setting up of hospital trusts in Scotland . |
| 28 | NIGEL Benn hauled himself back on Millionaires Row here in Italy by cutting up Mauro Galvano and grabbing the WBC world super middleweight title . |
| 29 | On 29 November the Security Council voted Resolution 678 , setting a departure deadline of 15 January and authorizing the use of ‘ all necessary means ’ for this result to be achieved in the UN 's name ‘ and to restore international peace and security in the area , . |
| 30 | Larry I. Guerrero was elected Governor in the November 1989 elections , succeeding Pedro P. Tenorio and gaining the third successive term for a Republican . |