Example sentences of "[adv] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after an hour or so of trudging into the stiff wind , a slight feeling of despair crept over me . |
| 2 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 3 | He had also paid a substantial price for the pleasure , not merely of looking at the corpse of the idea of a centre party , but of stamping upon it several times over . |
| 4 | Slowly I aided upwards , thinking only of getting to the sling ; the rest would be a later worry . |
| 5 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 6 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 7 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 8 | Massive structural changes were necessary to facilitate a move onto the land ; legs were needed — or at least became handy — to relieve the pressure of the amphibious bodies hitherto capable only of slithering along the ground . |
| 9 | Nowadays , too , the suggestion that a woman 's role consists entirely of slaving over the cooker , the kitchen sink and the washing is certain to irritate a significant number of people , though it is still a real enough situation for the majority of women . |
| 10 | They have pushed south to within 100 miles of Baghdad , and talk optimistically of marching on the capital . |
| 11 | In this section we look at some ways of doing this , and more generally of getting from the planning stage to the writing stage . |
| 12 | Have you ever of heard of the Stamp Bug Club ? |
| 13 | Isabel suspected her still of watching behind the curtains for Blattern . |
| 14 | Put simply , it is ( to recover the Platonic imagery for a moment ) a matter not just of seeing the light , but also of living in the light . |
| 15 | He is one of the few first-class players who make a point also of drinking in the public bar at grounds rather than cocooning himself away in the players ’ or sponsors ' lounges . |
| 16 | She thought wildly of dashing to the windows , out on to the balcony . |
| 17 | There was no cool period here of waiting for the ice to break . |
| 18 | Or will it be so difficult to interpret , so rigid in its framework that there is no room for the teacher to try interesting diversions and take the opportunity for exploration of unmapped territory — even of contributing to the design of the map itself ? |
| 19 | In these parts of the world , the genuine passenger still picks his way through the station encampment , with a sense almost of intruding upon the privacy of a village community . |
| 20 | A committee of clerics and nobles meeting at Scone in 1295 persuaded the so-called King John that enough was enough , and that instead of pandering to the King of England he should seek an alliance with the King of France . |
| 21 | It felt like he was bored , like he was playing with his camera instead of getting into the thing . |
| 22 | And erm so er er if people do that And er this this businessman , this week , he he rang and he he was sending messages via the secretary , instead of getting on the phone to me and and me finding out what there was , he finally he s he said There 'll be about an hour 's work . |
| 23 | After two days , in which it had become clear that Daod was organizing a drug shipment from Lebanon via Cyprus to Bulgaria , a well-worn route through the Eastern bloc into Western Europe , he decided to go home and sleep with his wife instead of staying on the job , as instructed , in case of overnight calls . |
| 24 | punctuation that is allowed to fall outside the margins instead of staying within the measure of the text . |
| 25 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |
| 26 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 27 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 28 | Instead of moving against the British they disappeared into the jungle and their Bogyoke announced , ‘ We are now at war ’ — at war with Japan . |
| 29 | Instead of dealing with the problem of a shrinking environment , for many years , scientists have wanted to protect the panda by taking them away and intervening with modern and more effective methods . |
| 30 | Apparently turf was a great talking point in this country , where people greeted one another with ‘ Have you got your turf in ? ’ instead of commenting on the weather . |