Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do enjoy my job serving the customers because of the way some of them ask sheepishly for a jokey item , ’ says Jenny . |
| 2 | ‘ The girls want their room doing the same now but I draw the line at our bedroom . ’ |
| 3 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 4 | In 1864 the family moved to St Leonards , where Florence helped her mother visiting the sick . |
| 5 | It was stopped by a passenger , Mr. Leonard Tofield , of Elmers End Road , who strained his wrist applying the hand brake . |
| 6 | I have the files … thieves , one who took a knife to a postmaster 's throat , one who buggered a Pioneer intake class , one who caught his wife screwing the rent official and took off half her head with a hammer-he should work well . |
| 7 | The other could n't figure this out until one day he found his friend jiggling the settings on his camera , systematically sabotaging his work . |
| 8 | capture your model using the process model definition language and add a LIFESPAN header for the pmodel that you have chosen and whose module name you reserved earlier . |
| 9 | London was her kingdom and she did n't want her sister taking the spotlight away from her . |
| 10 | She espied her daughter rounding the corner from Berkeley Square . |
| 11 | MYSELF : If an Arab entered a room and separated fourteen Jews from the rest , or a white man in a peaked hood with slits for eyes the same number of number of blacks , nobody would be wasting their time denying the anti-semitic or racist nature of the crime . |
| 12 | The impending launch of MS-DOS 6 has upset a lot of utility program developers — after all , they made their money plugging the holes Microsoft left in the operating system . |
| 13 | Nick Wirth says its like dribbling the ball around the goalmouth … they 've got to put it in the net … he 's confident but not over confident … they will do their best |
| 14 | She had made her reputation excavating the abandoned Ice Warrior citadels on Mars … at was many years ago in her own personal time-scale , many years in the future of the era she was in . |
| 15 | It 's a big setback for Molby , who faces a fight to regain his place following the arrival of Paul Stewart to bolster Liverpool 's midfield . |
| 16 | Mervyn Pinfield , feeling he had done his job overcoming the show 's technical worries and acting as adviser to Verity Lambert , wanted to return to the more active area of Directing . |
| 17 | I thought I could feel his disgust penetrating the thin wall . |
| 18 | Coffin himself had injured his back helping the girl and boy out of the water . |
| 19 | Breavman , the main character of his autobiographical novel The Favourite Came recollected his father singing the old soldiers ' song ‘ K-K-K-Katy … ’ ! |
| 20 | His citation detailed his action rescuing the crew of a UN observer vehicle near Sarajevo . |
| 21 | All the pine fittings , the Habitat china , the split-level cooker ( catch his mother leaving the slightest speck of human-looking grease on it ! ) the vast expanse of lawn stretching away there outside the window for yard after smooth yard : it all made him feel sick . |
| 22 | Craig lifted his glass admiring the slant of light through the brandy . |
| 23 | I can remember my dad opening the newspaper once and saying , ‘ There is going to be a war in China . ’ |
| 24 | I would begin my much-loved cleaning the moment they all left for the pub , and in pursuit of domestic perfection removed the cushions from the couch to find the little brown eye-dropper-bottle . |
| 25 | The M.T.A. by its constitution had a power to put on a stop list the name of a member or person who infringed its rule forbidding the sale of articles at other than the list prices relevant thereto unless such person should pay to the Association a fine within limits to be laid down by the Council of the Association . |
| 26 | Why the hell they ca n't spend their energy pursuing the likes of is beyond me . |
| 27 | A crucial breaking-point came in 1983 , when the Labour councillors first took a decision to support a small steel firm and save around sixty jobs , but later withdrew their support leaving the firm to collapse . |
| 28 | He could see his father lifting the lid and taking out the wedding-dress , not knowing what to do with it now that he was getting married again . |
| 29 | I would like your help upgrading the 2286DD to the equivalent of a 2286HD which I believe will be more than sufficient capacity for his school work . |
| 30 | Can you can you remember your mother doing the housework ? |