Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 2 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 3 | They were the harmless copying the harmful and benefiting from the deception . |
| 4 | There the cries of the watersellers and the buzz of taxis came wafting on the wind , strident and echoing across the dirty water . |
| 5 | Worrying about people 's comments instead of keeping calm and concentrating on the flying and on getting down safely is often the root cause of a bad landing . |
| 6 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 7 | Do n't go about much ; no late returning in crowded streets from Earl 's Court or elsewhere ; no dissipating jabber and smoking and drinking with the Andrews [ where Helen was employed ] . |
| 8 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 9 | Child care research should help practitioners distinguish what is grave and enduring from the less serious and transient . |
| 10 | The photograph was brown and curling at the edges . |
| 11 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 12 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 13 | You are happy ? " she asked the dogs when they returned , relieved and refreshed , to hop bright-eyed and panting into the car . |
| 14 | ‘ I was about 12 and going to the school up the road — Clint Boon was in the year above me — and one morning there was this big commotion in the classroom . |
| 15 | ‘ Cuj ach , ’ one of the slaves begged , breaking free and looking towards the travellers . |
| 16 | Determined , eager , brave and lusting for the real thing , |
| 17 | It is hard to escape the implication that a major source of this taboo is the sense that the priest kneeling down and washing women 's ‘ naked ’ feet would be somehow both sexual and polluting to the sacred . |
| 18 | Jesus is seen as British and belonging to the British . |
| 19 | The MSG promotes contacts between academics , civil servants , Bank of England officials , private bankers , stockbrokers , and others interested and working in the fields of money and banking , finance , and macroeconomic policy . |
| 20 | It is healthy ; it is strong ; and I think it will continue to grow and become even more exciting and challenging in the future . |
| 21 | His shirt was getting wet and moulding to the hard , enticing lines of his chest . |
| 22 | With this statement , Roebuck was answering a question about his defence and , in particular , an unforgettable head-on tackle he effected when the All Black 's runaway rhino , no.8 Wayne Shelford , was huffing , puffing and snorting for the tryline when North Harbour played New South Wales just under 12 months ago . |
| 23 | We have all seen the new jogger in his designer track suit and shoes , puffing and panting along the pavement , joints creaking and heart pounding as though his life depended upon it . |
| 24 | Thus , writing C for the capacitance of C 1 in parallel with C 2 and eliminating between the two equations or where , and In terms of partial fractions it is convenient to express the Laplace transform of I 2 as so that taking the inverse Laplace transformation where Note that and are both positive and real since and The latter result follows because From equation ( 11.51 ) the time dependence of the output voltage is given by But when assuming capacitor C 2 is uncharged initially . |
| 25 | Harvey 's songs are rich in imagery , raw and bleeding with the grist of the female experience . |
| 26 | Taking an unmarked structure such as The book received a great deal of publicity in China as a starting point , we can suggest a number of possible thematic structures in English , starting with the least marked and ending with the most marked . |
| 27 | John Tavener 's cello work The Protecting Veil is hymn-like and bordering on the minimalist . |
| 28 | Joe could n't be sure without checking , but he thought that the street was somewhere outside of Soho proper and bordering on the fringe of Chinatown . |
| 29 | The sea shimmering and heaving beneath the brisk breeze seemed ignorant of the loss in her life . |
| 30 | Dot sat rigid and shivering on the wicker armchair in the conservatory . |