Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 2 | Faced with the loss of their previous high-performance computer in 1987 , the university got backing from the Science and Engineering Research Council and the Department of Trade and Industry to purchase a large Computing Surface to serve both as a research vehicle and a flagship site for Meiko . |
| 3 | As the conference afternoon wore on , two Gardai were noticed at the back of the hall standing , ears bent listening to the speeches . |
| 4 | All subjects reported belching after the meal . |
| 5 | Council records show that during the last 18 months 32 companies and 12 sole traders stopped trading in the town ‘ for one reason or another . ’ |
| 6 | Christopher Tricky , seen struggling one day to remove an old tree stump near his hovel at the park gate , became , as has already been noted , the subject of ‘ Simon Lee , the Old Huntsman ’ ; a remark from Tom Poole led to ‘ The Idiot Boy ’ ; ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ told the story of a Holford shepherd found weeping in the road ; and ‘ The Thorn ’ was inspired by a weather-beaten hawthorn seen ‘ on the ridge of Quantock Hill ’ . |
| 7 | In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet . |
| 8 | The flame rose untrembling in the still air ; now and again a persistent insect would fly round , in , round and away . |
| 9 | At some point during this silent debate Summerchild came walking up the lane . |
| 10 | Party voices came floating through the air to Marion , who stood tucked in a corner between the sideboard and the wall . |
| 11 | The wind came howling down the street full of rain and incipient snow . |
| 12 | The wind came whipping off the moor and bent the cypresses as if they were blades of grass . |
| 13 | ‘ In the midst of the conversation at his house in the wooded hills of Northern Virginia ’ , she recorded , ‘ a neighbour 's horse came galloping down the road , riderless . |
| 14 | Sergeant Stitch came marching into the bathroom , to find Egbert Rose . |
| 15 | Cranston was about to reply when Colebrooke came striding across the green . |
| 16 | Then all of a sudden this car came hurtling round the corner with no lights on . |
| 17 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 18 | There was a swish of skis and a figure came hurtling past the hut , executed a brilliant turn in a flurry of snow and disappeared over the shoulder of the mountain . |
| 19 | The gate to a tiny courtyard was open and , for an instant , Lindsey hung back , watching in rapt fascination as a dark-haired , slender figure came hurrying down the steps towards them , cloth in hand , and flung herself into Niall 's arms . |
| 20 | Imagine our surprise at the start of this season when this fresh-faced , super-fit figure came striding across the Loughborough training pitch . |
| 21 | Five years later the Football Association adopted numbering in the Cup final , using numbers 1 to 22 , but Chapman was not finally vindicated until 1939 — five years after his death — when the League made it compulsory , primarily for the benefit of spectators . |
| 22 | These sentiments remained with him until the morning light came shining through the windows . |
| 23 | Seconds later , when the Plymouth came screaming around the bend , Manville was safely observing it from the inside of a record store window . |
| 24 | Thus he was a supernumerary stoker on a tramp steamer ( how Thesiger hated appearing before the ambassador in Constantinople in his flannels when His Excellency cabled the boat with an invitation ) . |
| 25 | The larks had not been up long when the first cars began filtering into the parks . |
| 26 | At midday an unseasonal wind began gusting from the east , and our calm anchorage was transformed into a choppy lee shore . |
| 27 | The aircraft began spinning to the right and crashed on the roadway , receiving substantial damage . |
| 28 | Enemy heads began appearing over the wall . |
| 29 | But quite a lot of the day Toby spent wandering around the school , not because he was naturally idle , but because it was his first job , and the school fascinated him . |
| 30 | As far as is known , AIDS began fulminating in the gay communities of New York City and San Francisco in the late 1970s . |