Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well leaving them a key or giving them the key to get in . |
| 2 | So Sinead O'Connor — probably our last remaining real rock star , a maverick , a 1000 per cent attack merchant constantly taking convention by the neck and shaking it the way a terrier shakes a rat , the woman who stormed into the Irish PM 's office over the abortion issue , who refused to sing the US national anthem , who correctly pointed out that George Bush leaves Saddam Hussein standing in the mass-murder stakes , who has exposed her own sad past in vivid , gory detail , whose every record has fully stretched and excited the expectations of her audience — has released a version of Loretta Lynn 's maudlin Country classic . |
| 3 | There was nothing short of taking the chap by the scruff of his neck and showing him the street that would have done the trick . |
| 4 | Apart from indicating the couch and offering him the wine she had done no more than sit watching him , occasionally rubbing a deep scratch on her arm . |
| 5 | ‘ She bit me last night , ’ he said , dragging up his trouser-leg and showing her the line of tiny red marks . |
| 6 | For example , in a normal conversation between a child and an adult , if the child said ‘ er … um ’ or looked puzzled in response to a question , the adult would attempt to resolve what appeared to be some problem of understanding by rephrasing the question or asking what the problem was . |
| 7 | A most effective means of doing this is through flattery and giving you the status of an innovative thinker . |
| 8 | However , no amount of relationship building will replace hard work and accomplishing what the public relations campaign set out to do . |
| 9 | Again , however , he spoke in general terms about greater competitiveness and supplying what the market wants but failed to suggest what steps he intended to take . |
| 10 | As in the NUM strike of 1984 , the women have been the backbone of this struggle : dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Daughters of Mother Jones , after the legendary union organiser from the turn of the century , they have walked the picket lines , sat in front of coal trucks , and been arrested . |
| 11 | There is nothing more interesting to a busy chief executive or personnel director than knowing what the competition are doing , what they are being paid and who is moving where . |
| 12 | It 'll be worse now , in retrospect , it 'll worse phoning Amy up at that moment and asking what the name was . |
| 13 | The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years in cleaning up the town and making it the kind of place which is able to compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 14 | In rationalising the corporation and giving it the equipment that would allow it to compete with rivals , particularly foreign rivals , I had to have a capital programme . |
| 15 | It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts . |
| 16 | With regard to intrauterine devices we suggest that in some women developing endometriosis while using them the disease goes unrecognised and they are treated by removal of the device . |
| 17 | I see this marvellous mechanism as giving us the certainty of immortality , for the impact of our thoughts and personality becomes imprinted in the brains of other men and they will continue in the minds of future generations . |
| 18 | A young man of shaven pate , E-X-P-L-O-I-T-E-D tattooed on his forehead , approaches me brandishing a splashing can of Carlsberg Special Brew and asking me the time . |
| 19 | They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor . |
| 20 | The Spastics Society has begun Alternative Lifestyles courses for disabled school leavers , ‘ providing positive alternatives to paid employment and giving them the confidence to take charge of their own lives ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ What I 'd like to be doing is putting you over my knee and giving you the spanking you heartily deserve , ’ he said grimly . |
| 22 | Writing Radio Drama — A practical course aimed at getting women started on writing plays for radio and giving them the inspiration to carry on . |
| 23 | I think it 's a question of understanding and perceiving what the meaning of the concept of God is outside a very narrow churchy kind of view . |
| 24 | Continued involvement of TL scientists through the different seasons of excavation has enabled them to collect samples and bury capsules to measure the associated gamma radiation dose rate , burying a capsule one summer and retrieving it the next . |
| 25 | 2.43 Lord Reid would have added £500 on the annual dependency to allow for the shortfall created by the incidence of taxation and that , of course , is a factor that should be taken into account when assessing what the dependency is . |
| 26 | I had to keep calling to her and whistling and showing her the chick . |
| 27 | The important thing though is that invited to the lunch are the top literary agents in London and therefore it 's an opportunity for these aspiring writers to meet top literary agents and of course , we 've got the biggest publisher in the U K there — Collins , and so it 's , what the awards all about entree ; giving access and extending a helping hand to twelve aspiring writers every year and giving them the most terrific flying start . |
| 28 | Parsys Ltd , London NW , has come out with a new version of its 30MHz T805 Transputer-based SuperNode 1000 parallel processor optimised to run the Oracle Corp relational database system and calling it the SN2000 . |
| 29 | Even Napoleon found it expedient to buttress force by prescription , having antique gems implanted in his crown and terming it the crown of Charlemagne . |
| 30 | Other developments for the backpacker : Coleman are now making their Multifuel stove with a detachable fuel bottle and calling it the Apex stove . |