Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Beddington , mindful of the same appointment , was rather optimistically emerging from the shop with a bottle of Lockyers Sulphur Hair-restorer , and six tablets of Amiral soap ( ‘ Removes Burden of Corpulency ’ ) . |
| 2 | Just altogether less demanding on the child as well as on the mother . |
| 3 | Eliot 's practice , as his remarks just quoted make clear , was always ‘ freed ’ verse : verse freed indeed from the constraints of traditional prosody , yet rather constantly recalling to the reader 's ear one of the traditional patterns it was departing from . |
| 4 | Erm right so looking at the details of those , right what we 've , what we 're actually saying then is that if erm you , you would want to provide that income or want to make sure that that , that income was available should you die tomorrow ? |
| 5 | It is all right complaining under the charter to the person who runs the service about which one is complaining as long as there is a further port of call — a further person to whom one can complain . |
| 6 | He was all right going up the stairs till half-way . |
| 7 | She stayed in mostly looking after the house and cooking and seeing to his clothes . |
| 8 | The borrowings are converted into Sterling when drawn down thereby locking in the exchange rate and the currency borrowings are repaid from the currency receivables . |
| 9 | Perhaps much learning in the natural sciences , in the medical sciences and in technology is like this . |
| 10 | It is clear that despite the continuing success and positive feedback from the Programme the difficulties of organisation hinder a much better sharing between the Regions . |
| 11 | Sedgefield Labour MP Tony Blair : ‘ Our commitment to the NHS , and to the elderly and families by increasing pensions and child benefits will bring to Government a sense of community and the need to help others so obviously missing from the Conservative party 's agenda over the last 13 years . ’ |
| 12 | At first I spent so long feeling for the ground the engines had run down to idle , and there was a long delay before they wound back up again to produce noticeable acceleration . |
| 13 | Having spent so long staring into the national navel we can raise our heads . |
| 14 | They would be aided and abetted in so doing by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 15 | I did hear of some people who had trouble getting tickets and that there was a delay in receiving them — some apparently not arriving until the week or even the day before the start but that is the sort of thing which can be learnt from and things will improve on future all-ticket matches . |
| 16 | It 's so just enquiring on the catalogue interest , we 've only got that one |
| 17 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 18 | This seems to contradict the NEC v Intel case although , being an American case , it is obviously not binding on the United Kingdom courts . |
| 19 | At this stage , Scott was obviously not pleading for the setting aside of the competition results , as has been suggested , but on the contrary , for the employment of the successful competitors , of whom there were four including Barry , with more right to the work than he had . |
| 20 | At these times Darren looked puzzled , and began to look away from her obviously not attending to the situation at all . |
| 21 | Operating in a bleeding French market , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has a rapidly vanishing mainframe base , personal computer problems that only seem to have been exacerbated by the acquisition of Zenith Data Systems , which looks like a source of profitless volume , and a Unix strategy that is only just getting off the ground . |
| 22 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
| 23 | ‘ To invade those poor people in Poland when they 're only just getting over the last war . ’ |
| 24 | yeah , you 're blowing apart as well because we are n't servicing our part of the partnership , cos it 's not only just talking about the projects he 's bringing in an and getting him involved with projects like that . |
| 25 | WARNER CLASSICS — Warner Classics is only gradually getting into the mid-price market . |
| 26 | With Iraq not currently exporting [ see p. 38598 ] and Kuwait only gradually returning to the market , OPEC 's other 11 member states had felt able to defer any reimposition of output restrictions , particularly in view of the serious uncertainty about Soviet supplies . |
| 27 | Although broadcasters may feel that RDS is user-friendly the consumer-industry is only gradually responding to the growing dislike of over-complex and often confusing controls ; c.f. video recorders easily set to record the wrong programme on the wrong channel at the wrong time , and teletext units that remain under-used . |
| 28 | The subtle differences have brought a strength and depth of study to the discipline of building surveying and created the sense of identity so palpably missing in the 1960s . |
| 29 | Can you give me any indication of the gravity of the investigation which , in your view , might justify me in deliberately withholding from the board information of direct importance to the bank 's shareholders ? " |
| 30 | Rickie , apparently still vibrating to the music , sprang up from the stateroom couch . |