Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | George then shot Lennie because he was angry at Lennie for getting in the way of his dreams coming true . |
| 2 | Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time . |
| 3 | Just as his late father was reviled in Forres for siding with the Boers fourteen years before , so John was mocked and jeered for speaking up for peace . |
| 4 | 400 people gathered at Groundwell Farm in Swindon after hearing about the illegal rave on a telephone hotline . |
| 5 | A few years later , visiting Moscow after passing through the Ukraine during the great famine , I was asked , ‘ How did North America expand west , but we have failed to expand east ? ’ |
| 6 | The machine , an original Boston Tacker from the early nineteen hundreds was prepared by Taffy for showing at the exhibition this month at Wellingborough branch . |
| 7 | Jacopo Bassano ‘ The miraculous draught of fishes ’ , to be shown at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth , Texas , from 23 January to 24 April , when the major Jacopo Bassano exhibition transfers to the States after closing at the Museo Civico of Bassano del Grappa on 6 December . |
| 8 | Sedgefield District Council 's development sub-committee yesterday recommended refusal of a plan for an opencast coal mine at Metal Bridge , West Cornforth despite backing for the scheme from council officers . |
| 9 | What happened in their relationship made a day on a ‘ Carry On ’ set seem to Ken like sitting in the audience at a pantomime . |
| 10 | As a result of complaints by a group of students that Ebussu'ud Efendi 's colleague , Civizade , the Anadolu kazasker , was preventing them from becoming mulazims , Sultan Suleyman charged Ebussu'ud Efendi with looking into the matter . |
| 11 | It then breaks into the countryside , heading out to Manston before swinging along the coast past Ramsgate and then … the torture begins . |
| 12 | Although the Government have already banned Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams from travelling to the Commons to address MPs Glasgow district council says it wo n't stop Thursdays meeting because the city has a policy of freedom of speech . |
| 13 | The troublesome lamps flank the couch , where constituents sit and watch their congressman appear and disappear ; and the only thing that saved Orton from rushing to the floor to cast phantom votes when his clock buzzer went off was the fall-back alarm system , a personal bleeper . |
| 14 | They had dinner at the Trocadero in Shaftesbury Avenue before taking in the late show at the Windmill Theatre . |
| 15 | She had been , in fact , tutor to the young Princess Elizabeth , who was a virtual prisoner at Bisham before succeeding to the throne . |
| 16 | Mexico was also the object of early Comintern interest : Moscow was keen to promote Communist activity in Mexico in order to distract the United States from intervening against the Soviet Union , and dispatched Mikhail Borodin in 1919 partly to achieve this end . |
| 17 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 18 | The details of this action are rather scant , but Domesday Book ( see below ) showed a distinct drop in recorded values along a line of country which suggests that the Normans moved quickly to subdue Lewes and then marched westwards to join up with secondary Norman forces landing in the Selsey area to take Chichester before moving towards the Saxon treasury at Winchester . |
| 19 | Then he glanced fleetingly at Shiona before heading for the staircase . |
| 20 | Maybe Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in Thelma & Louise , Julia Roberts in Sleeping With The Enemy or Jodie Foster in Silence Of The Lambs . |
| 21 | The successes first of Constantius and then of Aëtius in dealing with the Germanic invaders obscure the real weakness of the Roman position . |
| 22 | Lord 's secretly warned Surrey in writing at the end of the 1991 season . |
| 23 | Therefore a new link road was created joining Westburn Avenue to Baberton Mains Hill by passing beneath the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway line . |
| 24 | ‘ Michael would get into Rolls-Royces by leaping across the pavement and jumping in head first , ’ recalled Reed . |
| 25 | His barrister Barrie Stewart accused Mrs Spence of lying about the threats . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , at the risk of confirming suspicions that he was a political reactionary , he scrupulously avoided discussion of internal French politics ( except to criticize Vichy for collaborating with the Germans ) . |
| 27 | Umpires Barry Dudleston and John Holder — the man who reported England for tampering with the ball on the same ground against West Indies last year — changed the ball because it had been suspiciously scuffed . |
| 28 | From Manchester Airport to Aberdeen for meeting with the Hamilton Oil Company . |
| 29 | On a TV Wogan show , Ken would pay tribute to Marty Feldman for writing Round The Horne . |
| 30 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |