Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with the loss of their previous high-performance computer in 1987 , the university got backing from the Science and Engineering Research Council and the Department of Trade and Industry to purchase a large Computing Surface to serve both as a research vehicle and a flagship site for Meiko . |
| 2 | Christopher Tricky , seen struggling one day to remove an old tree stump near his hovel at the park gate , became , as has already been noted , the subject of ‘ Simon Lee , the Old Huntsman ’ ; a remark from Tom Poole led to ‘ The Idiot Boy ’ ; ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ told the story of a Holford shepherd found weeping in the road ; and ‘ The Thorn ’ was inspired by a weather-beaten hawthorn seen ‘ on the ridge of Quantock Hill ’ . |
| 3 | The flame rose untrembling in the still air ; now and again a persistent insect would fly round , in , round and away . |
| 4 | At some point during this silent debate Summerchild came walking up the lane . |
| 5 | The wind came howling down the street full of rain and incipient snow . |
| 6 | The wind came whipping off the moor and bent the cypresses as if they were blades of grass . |
| 7 | ‘ In the midst of the conversation at his house in the wooded hills of Northern Virginia ’ , she recorded , ‘ a neighbour 's horse came galloping down the road , riderless . |
| 8 | Then all of a sudden this car came hurtling round the corner with no lights on . |
| 9 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 10 | There was a swish of skis and a figure came hurtling past the hut , executed a brilliant turn in a flurry of snow and disappeared over the shoulder of the mountain . |
| 11 | The gate to a tiny courtyard was open and , for an instant , Lindsey hung back , watching in rapt fascination as a dark-haired , slender figure came hurrying down the steps towards them , cloth in hand , and flung herself into Niall 's arms . |
| 12 | Imagine our surprise at the start of this season when this fresh-faced , super-fit figure came striding across the Loughborough training pitch . |
| 13 | Five years later the Football Association adopted numbering in the Cup final , using numbers 1 to 22 , but Chapman was not finally vindicated until 1939 — five years after his death — when the League made it compulsory , primarily for the benefit of spectators . |
| 14 | These sentiments remained with him until the morning light came shining through the windows . |
| 15 | At midday an unseasonal wind began gusting from the east , and our calm anchorage was transformed into a choppy lee shore . |
| 16 | As far as is known , AIDS began fulminating in the gay communities of New York City and San Francisco in the late 1970s . |
| 17 | There was another mighty crash and a priest began walking through the congregation swinging a censer and laying his hand on the head of anyone who offered . |
| 18 | The manoeuvre was almost complete when the car started weaving across the road . |
| 19 | The shepherd started walking towards the malthouse , and Boldwood followed him , holding the letter . |
| 20 | There was n't much to it , just painted ply over a cardboard shell , and its lock went spinning across the room at the second kick . |
| 21 | Many years ago , according to the legend , the first daughter of his people 's lineage went missing in the forest . |
| 22 | Her mind kept wrestling with the problem of her identity , her imagination running riot as she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her . |
| 23 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 24 | Fleury , too , continued to grieve for her and was now composing a poem in which her little ghost came tripping along the ramparts sniffing flowers , unperturbed by the flying cannon balls ( it was not a very good poem ) . |
| 25 | At last a pick-up truck came bumping up the track , containing Giovanna 's fat and apparently unsatisfactory husband and a detachment of villagers , including the old men , Molly was sure , who had sat on the wall by the petrol pumps mocking her . |
| 26 | Then Mum came rustling down the stairs in her almost-new taffeta dress with its leg o' mutton sleeves . |
| 27 | Mum came rushing into the house one evening . |
| 28 | Thus began a desperate search for a toxic dump site for County Cork , with each move the County Council made resulting in the mushrooming of local opposition . |
| 29 | A RUSSIAN sailor charged with murdering five shipmates on a German freighter found drifting in the North Sea last week has confessed to killing two of the crew with an axe , Danish police said yesterday . |
| 30 | Thurso could not afford the £300 needed for the charter in 1876 when , hard on the heels of the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to ‘ The Exhibition ’ , the Town Council proposed applying for the honour . |