Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what he said , prophesying about the future , saying what would happen in the future in this case . |
| 2 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 5 | The concern of the authorities is that a dominant firm will price aggressively in those markets where it faces actual or potential competition with the intention of seeing off the competition . |
| 6 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 7 | After the interval the all-female Mix-ups team moved into top gear seeing off the challenges of Martin 's Babes and Coshquin Exiles . |
| 8 | Midst a lot of no-balls , which helped no end , they picked their way though the furious gunfire , finding the odd boundary , encouraging each other , and finally seeing off the follow-on a ball before tea . |
| 9 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 10 | While eating we watched a variety of cheeky small birds darting through the restaurant , picking up tasty crumbs of freshly baked bread and croissants or dipping their long narrow beaks around the lid of the sugar bowl when the waiters were n't looking . |
| 11 | For instance , annual sales forecasting for a manufacturing activity undertaking a wide variety of large complex engineering work on a unit and small batch basis may be carried out using a combination of queuing , scheduling and inventory based methods . |
| 12 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 13 | So we are erm continuously forecasting for the Gas and Electricity Authorities . |
| 14 | And reducing the amount of time spent on figures enables them to concentrate on reviewing and forecasting for the group . |
| 15 | On the second day , she wrote Louise a letter that she knew was inadequate but told all that she felt capable of confiding for the moment . |
| 16 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 17 | It is often helpful to create several small files ( 5-10 entries maximum ) with varying layouts and indexing as an aid to discussion at the design stage . |
| 18 | The moth was still fluttering between the pane and pinned scarlet cotton . |
| 19 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 20 | And his question , making Anna laugh , drawing off the poison , sealed the success of his courtship of her . |
| 21 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 22 | On a final , poignant note , I notice a large arrow sticking through the front and rear of the house . |
| 23 | A narrow lane branching off the village street led to it . |
| 24 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 25 | In 1939 , when the new double tubes were constructed , branching off the Bakerloo system , Ernest spent much time away from the school watching the digging of the new Metropolitan Lines under buildings at Finchley Road . |
| 26 | Reaching her car at last , she drove away into the silent night , gazing through a gauze of tears over the snow-covered mountains ahead . |
| 27 | She wished Beuno was there , standing by the stream and gazing through the alders at the flower-printed meadow . |
| 28 | I know nothing about radio — but I do n't need to , I realize , because , even while I watch , the waves are softly withdrawing from the wavebands , as from a beach at low tide on a calm summer 's afternoon , leaving me gazing through the darkness of my son 's bedroom at three shirts , two of them size 35 long , one of them size 32 medium . |
| 29 | ‘ How much longer ? ’ he said irritably , gazing through the windscreen , out across the Thames . |
| 30 | Emma looked into her mother 's face , and then making a small movement with her head before turning away and , gazing through the windscreen , she said , ‘ I 'm … |