Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that the board you buy has a large daggerboard ( longer than 50cm ) which fully retracts into the hull leaving nothing sticking out under the board . |
| 2 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 5 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 6 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 7 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 8 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 9 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 10 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 11 | And then they heard me tearing out of the sound-web . |
| 12 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 13 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 14 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 15 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 16 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 17 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 18 | Forgotten that she had thought she had seen someone moving around in the darkness . |
| 19 | To the extent that these may appear antithetical to modernism , not only in practice but also in theory , then we may find ourselves running up against the limits of our modernist frameworks of understanding . |
| 20 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 21 | I coming up through the floorboards . |
| 22 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 23 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 24 | Some people might say I do n't show any emotion but every time a goal went in there always seemed to be a picture of someone jumping up from the bench . |
| 25 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 26 | It was a little confusing to find ourselves setting off for the summits of the Viluyos barely an hour after the decision to do so . |
| 27 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 28 | This resistor absorbs the network signals and stops them bouncing back down the wire . |
| 29 | " You did n't mind me looking in at the window , Stephen ? |
| 30 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |