Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | " We 'd easily get the half-five bus , " Timothy said , offering his gums again , blocking their passage and the passage of two elderly women who were endeavouring to pass into the foyer . |
| 32 | Their role was to clear the Channel of the Dutch and English fleets , before returning to escort across the invasion army in its transports . |
| 33 | The waitress , feeling like she has done her best , storms off with tears brimming to talk to the manager . |
| 34 | Much as I was itching to play with the Bob Marley , I knew I would have more chance of parking Armstrong illegally when I collected Werewolf . |
| 35 | Glamis Castle is most famous for its association with Macbeth , and Shakespeare 's hero is said to still bemoan the murder of King Duncan , appearing to walk on the roof , taking a route known as The Mad Earl 's Walk . |
| 36 | He repeated the Comintern formula that " the united front can only be built up from below , by the workers themselves , not as a corrupt bargain of the reformist leaders and disorganisers of the struggle endeavouring to buy off the criticism of the revolutionaries , but as the solid class front of the workers " . |
| 37 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 38 | Head twisting to look in the dark glass above the creaking bed . |
| 39 | Our eyes seek out the inhabitants fleeing distracted , or returning to look for the dead . |
| 40 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |
| 41 | By the time they walk down the street , just happening to bump into the gang of boys , they have got it all worked out . |
| 42 | 1983 ) looked at 1255 step-families applying to adopt from the step-family population of 6150 in 1980 , and identified a major problem of variable treatment by courts of step-families seeking adoption . |
| 43 | The social composition of admitted solicitors is remarkably similar to the profile of law students , but the socialization process involved in qualifying to practise at the Bar dramatically increases the preponderance of persons from professional and managerial backgrounds . |
| 44 | From the purchasers ' point of view , auctions can also be attractive — if slightly nerve-racking as you wait for bidding to start for the house of your dreams . |
| 45 | In my first ten years of headship over 100 families used the service which the school provided , often returning to share with the group the progress which had been made and to comment on the ways in which their children had responded to the advice they had been given . |
| 46 | Early in September the Secretary of State ( now Lord Listowel ) paid a brief visit With the dual object of tidying up loose threads in Britain 's future relationship with Burma while also endeavouring to mediate between the AFPFL government and the Karens , who still attached great importance to the British connection . |
| 47 | They considered that order necessary in conjunction with the second part of their order relating to contact by the father with the children . |
| 48 | Non-return valve ( check valve ) to prevent hot water returning to mix with the cold water in the mains |
| 49 | So there he was , all frozen in the hot sun , I began to realise things were really serious when I see them machine guns itching to smoke in the fuzz hand . |
| 50 | Supposedly no danger existed of an individual being prosecuted for happening to disagree with the government but Jessup was understandably sceptical . |
| 51 | It is often suggested that in Italy the general public is more receptive to the idea of mental hospital residents returning to live in the community . |
| 52 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 53 | To be sure , we have all moved on since films directed by Hitchcock were unravelled in the search for strands of ‘ Catholic guilt ’ , but equally I still teach gay students who find it genuinely empowering to learn of the homosexuality of a cultural figure as one contributing factor to the work that he/she produced . |
| 54 | Not one of Norrington 's finest recordings then , but one that at least has one rethinking these delightful scores in the wake of countless recordings that have found me positively itching to get to the end ! |
| 55 | The group of Principals and Heads of Department attending the workshop worked extremely hard and enthusiastically on some of the key issues relating to change in the context of their work at the University . |
| 56 | We live in a ‘ market economy ’ and many one time ‘ command economies ’ are endeavouring to change to the same arrangements . |
| 57 | She is living in a superficial world appearing to act as the ‘ lovely creature ’ she is . |
| 58 | Yet she was itching to move to the metropolis and bombarded her parents with subtle and not so subtle requests . |
| 59 | ‘ Ratany plant , ’ he 'd say , dismounting to peer at the tiny , magenta petals . |
| 60 | Thus , I spent ten years working for Other Music Papers , never daring to aim for The Big One , editing Record Mirror and blooding young pups like Stuart Bailie and Roger Morton for greater things . |