Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the first time airmen have died in this way near Upper Heyford. 23 years ago , the pilot of a Voodoo jet reconaissance aircraft crashed into a tree after just managing to clear the roof of Steeple Aston school . |
| 2 | AFTER narrowly failing to win the European Cup Winners ' Cup last season , Havant take on an even harder task when they compete in the European Cup in Amsterdam this weekend . |
| 3 | Ricky Ross from Deacon Blue talks about not wanting to seduce the audience : ‘ I do n't like the idea of people throwing themselves over to our music … abandonment is a great idea but it worries me because it 's all so power-orientated . ’ |
| 4 | One man who spoke about already having made the decision to only have safer sex was ridiculed by some of the others . |
| 5 | Six months later , Thomas , from Burnham , Bucks , was fined £200 for careless driving , £100 for having no insurance and £200 for not stopping to report the accident . |
| 6 | Britain thus paid a heavy and increasing penalty for not having joined the European Economic Community in the early post-war period . |
| 7 | So he just kicked himself for not having made the obvious connection . ’ |
| 8 | The officials of the Institute have been heavily criticised by the administration of Sarajevo for not having stored the contents , which included numerous oriental manuscripts and material on microfilm , much of it unresearched . |
| 9 | Charles felt guilty for not having recognised the seriousness of the actor 's state . |
| 10 | The more computer power is available , the faster business can be transacted , and the heavier become the competitive penalties for not having to hand the right information about your business and its environment . |
| 11 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 12 | Migrants gave three main reasons for not having taken the course at the institutions involved in our research . |
| 13 | The Harpy is able to evade blows aimed through the bars of the cage , and missile fire is at a -30 penalty ; if you wish , missile fire has a 10% chance per missile of freakishly breaking open the cage door , allowing the Harpy out ! |
| 14 | She was a large woman , flushed with the exertion of constantly having to answer the door , and she still showed in her black hair , grey eyes and lovely skin , traces of her Irish forebears . |
| 15 | Our transformation matrices are therefore 15 × 15 in size , and the advantage of only needing to consider the trace to derive the character X is apparent ! |
| 16 | It has had the natural result of generally tending to increase the harshness of punishment — and consequently the size of the prison population and the scale of the penal crisis . |
| 17 | In many cases , the repercussions of not choosing to follow the message are not that extreme . |
| 18 | But Labour councillors rebutted the Conservative group 's allegation by accusing them of not wanting to face the truth . |
| 19 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 20 | I accused him ( not very bitterly ) of not having sent the CND cheque . |
| 21 | On account of not having read the book it is difficult to remember . |
| 22 | He is merely suspected of not having told the authorities of a 50 million lire ( £21,000 ) contribution to the costs of having election posters printed in last April 's general election . |
| 23 | This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months . |
| 24 | ‘ I now feel I defend much better and instead of always looking to beat the full-back I am happy to get half a yard on him and cross the ball as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 25 | Jackson conveyed the impression of wishing to establish a permanent UN presence in Korea on the basis of always seeking to convince the Russians of the value of cooperation . |
| 26 | Members of congress , by contrast , enjoy great power without responsibility ; it is possible for them to wallow in carping criticism and to engage in other negative tactics free from the anxiety of ever having to shoulder the responsibility for government — a burden that the president can not escape . |
| 27 | You have the choice of either trying to minimise the effect or going with it and rejoicing in the exotic feel of a semi-desert in your back yard . |
| 28 | Only 4.3% of the subjects in the violent condition could subsequently recall the number on the jersey whereas 27.9% in the non-violent condition were able to despite actually having seen the boy for a shorter period of time . |
| 29 | However , the surest way of never having to experience the misery — the most frequently occurring word associated with debt — the misery of debtors down the ages in Britain from Tom Verney to Sue and Tony , was to follow the time-honoured , still practical advice of Lord Chesterfield , Samuel Smiles et al that made boring but good sense in any age . |
| 30 | He tried to keep his voice firm , but the thought of actually having to kill the man in cold blood numbed him . |