Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific offline requests from LIFESPAN users are included while checking for the limit having been reached . ) |
| 2 | Anthony Waugh sawed his way through his neighbour 's stair bannister in Londonderry Road , Stockton , to release Sarah Walters , three , who had got herself trapped while playing on the steps . |
| 3 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 4 | IMI is depicted as lying below the efficient frontier EMF as the investor is engaged in the construction of a series of sub-optimal portfolios by the definition of the efficient frontier itself . |
| 5 | I always use Langton watercolour paper , which I wash first so that no spots appear when laying on the colour . |
| 6 | I always use Langton watercolour paper , which I wash first so that no spots appear when laying on the colour . |
| 7 | So Grice 's point is not that we always adhere to these maxims on a superficial level but rather that , wherever possible , people will interpret what we say as conforming to the maxims on at least some level . |
| 8 | The homoeopathic remedies with their powerful patterning effect , perhaps along the lines of cellular automata concepts , are visualized as spreading through the body and counteracting the imbalance , so restoring the tissues to harmony and balance . |
| 9 | A teacher is reported as speaking in the following way : ‘ Two huge girls were fighting . |
| 10 | The first are the rich and well-born , the other the mass of the people " , Hamilton was reported as saying at the Federal Convention in 1787 . |
| 11 | But ‘ there was no cover up , ’ the Director of Water and Sewage was reported as saying in the Sunday Times . |
| 12 | In the Financial Times of March 28 Bush 's spokesman , Marlin Fitzwater , was reported as saying in the week following the talks that the President was concerned about " the possible collapse " of the Uruguay Round . |
| 13 | This type of debate can only be resolved when looking at the functions in some detail . |
| 14 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 15 | He refused to consider what he regarded as interfering in the judicial process and what they saw as moderating his policy of harassing the Free Church . |
| 16 | The latter were incensed at what they regarded as hitting below the belt and retaliated with vicious shootings at policemen regardless of whether they were the men responsible . |
| 17 | The possible implications of this development are best considered when looking at the more general direction which the control on discretion is , and should be , taking . |
| 18 | The meaning of ‘ insolvent ’ has already been considered when dealing with the seller 's lien . |
| 19 | This does not mean however that the ‘ clean slate ’ doctrine was unreservedly upheld : boundary treaties and treaties creating rights or obligations relating to the use of territory and considered as appertaining to the territory of the successor State are express exceptions . |
| 20 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 21 | Only four of the 77 passengers were slightly injured while escaping from the emergency exits but the aircraft was badly damaged . |
| 22 | He does not want his team disrupted and is even more concerned that one might be injured while playing for the county . |
| 23 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 24 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |
| 25 | He died last week when his parachute failed to open while filming for the BBC series 999 near Alnwick , Northumberland . |
| 26 | The first real scare came while flying over the Mediterranean . |
| 27 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 28 | The important meetings had taken place in the East , and though very few representatives of the Western Churches had , attended , the canons had been accepted as binding upon the whole Christian world . |
| 29 | If during repairs , further underlying damage is found , this damage may only be accepted as coming within the cover of the policy if it is directly related to the incident giving rise to the claim . |
| 30 | In summary , the future pattern will probably include the following ingredients : 1 recognition that oral reading and silent reading should proceed simultaneously , from entry into school ; 2 longer periods given to individual reading interviews , which will necessitate re-organisation of the curriculum , with a greater emphasis on group work based on collaborative learning ; 3 the group work will have clear outcomes , many of which will start with silent reading and result in reading aloud for communication ; 4 the teaching of phonics will be seen as one possible cueing system only , resulting in the use of more intrinsically interesting texts which will enable contextual hypotheses ; 5 the realisation that books as such may be diminishing , will demand that other forms of print are incorporated into reading aloud in school , for example , from computers and teletext ; 6 the teacher 's professionalism will be accepted as lying in the understanding of the reading process and the development of the child , and in his or her power to train the child to read independently for real purposes as early as possible . |