Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | GREG HARLOW won the Robert Hutchinson Opticians Masters bowls title last night emerging from a field which had included 13 internationals from England , Scotland , Wales and Jersey none of whom succeeded in reaching the final . |
| 2 | DHAs will be freed from the responsibility for operational management to enable them to concentrate on achieving the optimum improvement in the health of the population they serve . |
| 3 | The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes . |
| 4 | I do n't know whether there is a charge for this ; if there is , please would you let me know before sending the report as all expenditure has to be authorised by a meeting of the Parish Council . |
| 5 | Independently of a great number of new Birds I succeeded in procuring the nests and eggs of at least two thirds of the species inhabiting that interesting region . |
| 6 | The weather being too boisterous to admit of a boat being lowered , I endeavoured to capture the bird with a hook and line , and the ordinary sea-hooks being too large for the purpose , I was in the act of selecting a hook from my stock of salmon-flies , when a sudden gust of wind blew my hooks , and a piece of parchment ten inches long by six inches wide on which they were lying , overboard into the sea , and I was obliged to give up the attempt for that day ; on the next I succeeded in capturing the bird with a hook baited with fat , and the reader may judge of my surprise when on opening the stomach I there found the piece of parchment , so completely uninjured that it was dried and again restored to its original use. , |
| 7 | I refrain from naming the books in case you have yet to read them . |
| 8 | I mean with fitting the |
| 9 | This torture would be carried out every week until someone admitted to killing the boar . |
| 10 | NORMALLY I insist on using the names of people who contact me for help , but in this case I am making an exception . |
| 11 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 12 | I insist upon conquering the wills of children betimes ; because this is the only foundation for a religious education … religion is nothing else but the doing the will of God , and not our own … |
| 13 | But as I say as paying the er r I , I 've seen them when I 'm going round the site er I got an option from the firm , I 'd be allowed time off my work , my actual work on the , on the , on the site , to go round and collect their unions dues . |
| 14 | When the men were out working in the field , I was left in the yard erm I helped with feeding the milking the cows , feeding the calves and the pigs . |
| 15 | I concentrated on zipping the flies of my trousers , head down , nothing to do with me . |
| 16 | It was a bit difficult as I could n't feel what I was doing , but I concentrated on pushing the top of my uterus down through my bottom . |
| 17 | But it is as a recorder of the game 's idiosyncrasies that he has carved his distinctive niche : ‘ I delight in recording the oddities and unusual happenings in which the game abounds , ’ he says . |
| 18 | The role which I adopted for studying the process was that of non-participant observer . |
| 19 | When I came to planning the circuit I realised there would actually have to be two routes — a high level one , leading over the crest of the fells , and a low level alternative for unfavourable weather . |
| 20 | I hope by sharing the struggle and vision of the people in both ‘ worlds ’ , that more people will be inspired to ‘ blow the trumpet ’ which will one day sound the tune for the march of humanity into progress . |
| 21 | I begin by repeating the point that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made in a letter to my hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North on 14 January , that in an organisation the size of the health service , which deals with so many patient contacts , it should not be surprising — indeed , it should be welcomed — that we do not seek to impose total uniformity on every single decision that is made about the treatment of patients across the country . |
| 22 | I begin by telling the children a story about a giant who was very unpopular with all the other giants because he would n't eat people or animals . |
| 23 | I begin by welcoming the hon. Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) to the House . |
| 24 | I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Stockton , North ( Mr. Cook ) on becoming a grandfather again . |
| 25 | I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Gateshea East ( Ms. Quin ) on being successful in the ballot , on introducing such an important subject for debate and on doing it so well . |
| 26 | I want this morning to consider the effect of some of those issues on our planet and particularly on our atmosphere , and I begin by considering the ozone layer . |
| 27 | I begin by examining the antiracists ' notion of racism as a form of irrationalism . |
| 28 | I begin by revisiting the arguments in the opening speeches about why we need the Bill . |
| 29 | And with bright , almost gaudy colour schemes including bright blue and really bright red , the £12,500 Wrangler is certainly an eye-catcher , I confirmed after leaving the off-road track for a spin around Renfrewshire . |
| 30 | I graduated to doing the mixed grills . |