Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 2 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 3 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 4 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 5 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 6 | A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth . |
| 7 | Thus a government which while adhering to the rule of law narrowly defined , flouted all or most of the practices generally thought to be covered by the rule of law broadly defined would also give rise to doubts about its legitimacy . |
| 8 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 9 | Let my lord pass on before his servant , and I will lead on slowly , according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children , until I come to my lord in Seir . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Certainly not … to catch me here ! ’ said the third , lifting on the breeze above me and hovering over the top of the pole where the trap was . |
| 11 | She said , ‘ Every year I end up taking a pair of rubber gloves with me and looking after the children , and every year I end up coming home feeling exhausted . |
| 12 | I keep remembering the last night we were here — same hotel and all — and how Matt and I went out and got stinko-paralytico together and ended up doing the Zorba dance and got thrown out and Matt pointing at me and saying to the waiters Hey do n't you recognize Mista Rick from Parkway Peninsula and they did n't and made us pay for the plates . |
| 13 | This woman with a red headscarf is looking at them and chatting to the man behind the stall . |
| 14 | He picked up the books one by one , opening them at the title page , watching every movement of her pen as she signed them and commenting on the brilliance of each individual plot . |
| 15 | But there would be lights in the chapel , Isabel assured herself , peering ahead for a sign of them and flinching from the feel of the rough stone beneath her palm . |
| 16 | All the children who were living far away , they brought a sandwich and a flask with them and eating in the desk in the classroom . |
| 17 | Bodie got out of the car and strolled past the two men , standing quite close to them and browsing in the window of the shop before which they stood . |
| 18 | But I mean i i certainly if you go through the , the early bits erm I mean i i i if you take well okay the , the organization bit to begin with , but then hitting the landlords politically er you know y you 're , you 're checking their accounts , you 're imposing their fines when they 've been a bit naughty , you 're letting contributions erm you 're crowning them and going through the streets , you 're locking them up , you 're banishing some of them , you might be executing some of them but i it 's , it 's only specifically where they 've offended against your , your view of the moral economy , where they , where they 've sort of been naughty in terms of |
| 19 | If you allowed for the shape of two paper-backs , between them and jutting from the end was a two-inch pack of what could be paper money . |
| 20 | When a police car arrived , one man hopefully pointed out a few spots of blood on the pavement , mentally drawing a chalk circle round them and marking off the area with official police tape . |
| 21 | The Communist Party Central Committee complained in February 1932 : The Minority Movement is a small self-absorbed organization of leaders who have nothing to do with the real struggle of the workers and who instead of going to the workers , working among them and fighting against the reformist leaders in the Trade Unions , simply approach the workers with the invitation to take part in a highly elaborate organisational structure . |
| 22 | Both halves have their merits , but together their appeal will be limited to those teachers of computer science , who if lecturing on the impact of motor traffic on society , would spend half the time on the way sparking plugs work . |
| 23 | In-depth articles on the Company itself and reporting on the latest innovative trends from the design studio , all form part of their activities . |
| 24 | Of course , this is only a guide — much of the merit is in doing the exercise itself and thinking about the points raised . |
| 25 | The talent he has encouraged and given much time and effort to , includes the 1986 Club Champion , 20-year-old Simon Barrington who was twice Junior Champion ; Michael Orris , the Joint Course record holder and County Alliance player ; Guy Phillips , still 17 , the Junior Champion and Captain ( handicap 5 ) and who whilst competing in the Daily Express Ford qualifying round at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1986 played to level par and went on to play in the finals in Spain ) ; Henry Bareham , also handicap 5 , who played for English Schools and Graham Booth , the Thames Valley League Junior Champion . |
| 26 | Some unexpected surprises are in store for you whilst walking around the gallery . |
| 27 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 28 | It 's got a bad stigma to it and that 's what 's the main problem with it , y'know , this junkie in a dirty squat with a needle hanging out of his arm and OD'ing and dealing on his doorstep and everything and looking like the pictures you see of people falling to bits , but for me personally it 's not like that , y'know , I do try to conduct a normal law-abiding life . |
| 29 | He was at a loss to describe the sky , its lilac whiteness , so ineffable above him that it was like a secret waiting to be deciphered , reflecting everything and seeping into the thin mist on the ground . |
| 30 | And er one of the men that was helping the old man to do something , to repair the the these tools you know , and he he 'd gone to the stores to get something and leaning over the counter to get something er er to sort of talk as one goes on a on a counter lean he was leaning a on the counter , and he erm the the the storeman he was a tough little beggar , and he said , I 've got a I 've got a I 've got a toothache . |