Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 2 | I suspect Mrs feels she ought to be signing them not the |
| 3 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 4 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | Indeed , his increased persistence of late may even be my employer 's way of urging me all the more to respond in a like-minded spirit . |
| 6 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
| 7 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 8 | Yeah , she 's meeting her up the Tavern . |
| 9 | He felt tired , slightly drunk and frightened ; if an assassin was hunting him then the dark runnels of Edinburgh at night would only provide fresh opportunities . |
| 10 | But I thought we wanted to keep this a low profile bungalow and that 's pushing it up the same as the other one in Grey Lane went up . |
| 11 | Rather than being a fair reflection of those behaviours objectively causing us collectively the most avoidable suffering , criminal law categories are artful , creative constructs designed to criminalize only some victimizing behaviours , usually those more frequently committed by the relatively powerless , and to exclude others , usually those frequently committed by the powerful against subordinates . |
| 12 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path ! |
| 14 | Soon all who were following me were leading me so the chances were that they were not following me though they could still be following me by leading me and then waiting around to ambush etcetera etcetera ; but of course not . |
| 15 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 16 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 17 | He tried to prolong the date , leading her down the streets of the old part of town and then uphill to the courtyard of an old cloister , teeming with tourists . |
| 18 | He read her mind and drew the woman away , leading her down the room to a comfortable chair . |
| 19 | We was there all one Sunday with a trace-horse , pulling him up the common with his slaughter-cart : dead cows and that . |
| 20 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 21 | She said I 'm not wearing them down the shop . |
| 22 | Above all , he took the future trade union leader seriously , answering his incessant questions , and calling him proudly the ‘ queerest bairn he had ever known . |
| 23 | Sadly , most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball . |
| 24 | To add further complication , English speakers rarely give that lake the name used by Swiss , French , Germans and Italians , calling it instead the Lake of Luzern , a name which the Swiss only apply to one arm ( and almost the smallest at that ) of this many-armed lake . |
| 25 | If for instance erm Fred Bloggs at the end of the office is sick on Friday he turns off his P C at lunchtime and goes home and we do the software upgrade during the afternoon on Friday , then his P C wo n't get the upgrade to the software because we 're sending it down the network . |
| 26 | He then was responsible for salting the venison and packing it in barrels , and keeping it safe until required , or sending it wherever the king wanted it . |
| 27 | The most hair-raising operation at Honister was not digging the slate , but getting it down the fells to sheds where the material was riven and dressed for transportation by packhorse to ports and river barges . |
| 28 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 29 | When you have typed in your work , move the cursor back to the very beginning and use it to guide your eyes by moving it down the screen at the left-hand margin as you check each line . |
| 30 | I decided that aiming my camera at the TV set was just as reasonable as aiming it out the window " ( ART news , Jan. 1986 ) . |