Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large carthorse stood drowsily eating something in the grass . |
| 2 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 3 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 4 | An election may also be a realigning one in that it produces a long-term shift in the balance of support between the parties , perhaps installing one as the new majority . |
| 5 | A speechreader was naturally anticipating something about the price of leather , the usefulness of gumboots — possibly how one hops round the room on one leg pulling them off and so on . |
| 6 | In effect , they are making two claims , one of which I want to call the minor and the major claim , which are not logically necessarily following one from the other . |
| 7 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've got the school Nativity play , ’ said George , ‘ and Miss Thorne is already producing something for the Women 's Guild . ’ |
| 9 | That 's not all the way round , that 's just multiplying one by the other . |
| 10 | I 'd like to do that , but you 're just giving one to the Conservatives . |
| 11 | I 'm just doing something at the moment |
| 12 | So in this particular example we 've got a single channel conductance of six picoamps , six times ten to the minus twelve amps , divided by forty millivolts , four times ten to the minus three volts , and just dividing one by the other we get a value of a hundred and fifty times ten to the minus twelve siemens which is the us unit of er conductance , note it has an I in it . |
| 13 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 14 | I mean it 's like imagining one without the wheel or something . |
| 15 | There on the threshold , barring her progress , stood Tessa , still wearing nothing but the tweed overcoat and still nursing the overstuffed open suitcase . |
| 16 | This has the positive advantage of giving them a broad-based appeal across a diversified range of industries and functions and always having somebody in the team who can potentially suit the chemistry of a particular client . |
| 17 | The computer industry is the most rapidly changing one in the world at present . |
| 18 | She moved with a nunlike tranquillity from one sequence to the next , thinking nothing of being asked to drag a beast through a blizzard , and clearly suffering none of the discomfort felt by others . |
| 19 | To achieve a fine white printing quality , the paper is oxygen bleached , thereby having none of the detrimental effects on the environment which are inherent in the conventional chlorine bleaching process . |
| 20 | I see so we 've got the five officers who went into the flat now coming one after the other |
| 21 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 22 | ‘ Frank has to prove himself by really beating someone in the top ten . |
| 23 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 24 | Healey backed Crossman and pointed out that they would be ‘ blind men leading the blind if they had to go in there knowing nothing about the place ’ . |
| 25 | All these sizes can be worked out well in advance of actually typing anything onto the screen — indeed all design should be done well away from the computer . |
| 26 | ( It 's like continually slapping someone across the face — almost a wince . ) |
| 27 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |
| 28 | Finn noted that he was tracing a column of names and addresses with the tip of his pen , occasionally ringing one with the biro . |