Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 2 | There was a tight thicket of new , thorny growth in the clearing , a bird darting between the branches picking at the red and blue berries that hung from the twigs . |
| 3 | After the interval the all-female Mix-ups team moved into top gear seeing off the challenges of Martin 's Babes and Coshquin Exiles . |
| 4 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 5 | She wished Beuno was there , standing by the stream and gazing through the alders at the flower-printed meadow . |
| 6 | In a multiprogramming computer system , then , we have a number of processes competing for the resources of the computer , such as main storage areas , processor time , and access to transput devices . |
| 7 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 8 | The competition was tough with 304 UK projects competing for the honours . |
| 9 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 10 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
| 11 | The salesperson 's voice may be competing for the buyers ' attention with the flashing lights and noise of the equipment . |
| 12 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 13 | Once trimmed and ready to be positioned , ensure that they are thoroughly cleaned by pouring boiling water over them and allowing to soak , scrubbing between the folds . |
| 14 | Now I can not bear the darkness and have to keep on relighting the candle , fumbling for the matches in the total darkness . |
| 15 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 16 | Without conscious thought she found she was pushing her hands inside his shirt , fumbling for the buttons in a frenzy of haste which made him smile against her lips . |
| 17 | Leafing through the pages of Wisden , one can discover that even on the so-called fast bowlers ' pitch at Lord 's , spinners were regularly brought to the bowling crease as first change : slow bowlers such as Titmus of Middlesex , Dooland of Notts , Tribe of Northants , Wardle of Yorkshire , Walsh of Leicestershire , Hollies of Warwickshire , Mortimore of Gloucestershire and Marlar of Sussex . |
| 18 | Shopping at your local garden centre or leafing through the pages of catalogues can be a good place to start , whether you are buying for people who prefer to read about the possibilities of beautiful plantings or for those who actually get out there and make it happen in their own gardens . |
| 19 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 20 | She looked up as Sophie returned , leafing through the pages of the veterinary register . |
| 21 | As Morton produced the manila folder from his pocket , Sir Rufus seized it and began leafing through the papers it contained . |
| 22 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 23 | One thing about having a job , she thought , sitting down at her desk and leafing through the messages which had been left for her , it certainly takes your mind off your worries . |
| 24 | Leafing through the results of 13 years work — editor Lesley Brown and 25 assisstant editors have just completed the job of updating the shorter Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 25 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 26 | Here in the open grass he broke into a headlong run , lurching and recovering as the tussocks turned under him . |
| 27 | Below him , Fleury raced along outside the churchyard wall under the bayonets of the galloping sepoys , touching off the trains to the fougasses . |
| 28 | Until 1986 , the steeply graded banks of one river in arable country were regularly sprayed with the approved chemical 2-4-D amine , in order to reduce the nettles , which were less good at holding the banks than slow-growing grasses , but for which perfect conditions had been established by abundant nitrogen leaching off the fields . |
| 29 | Even allowing for the passions of the moment , the story is probably true ; it is thoroughly in keeping with Pétain 's character ( and the 33rd was suffering from lack of discipline when he took it over ) . |
| 30 | In 1992 , despite the deepening recession , the same companies i.e. before allowing for the Magazines loss , earned a profit of £733,500 or £193,000 more than in 1991 . |