Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that Storr continued the concern , Fogelberg perhaps acting as the sleeping partner . |
| 2 | She sometimes felt that were Scott not sitting at the studio news desk , face made up and hair sprayed , ready to roll and clearly in control — why , then the news might never happen . |
| 3 | The cantata ends with Dido still speaking in the first person . |
| 4 | With Mola still pushing towards the city on its northern flank , Franco realized that he might not be the first Nationalist general to enter Madrid . |
| 5 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 6 | The driver was already pulling away in the Rolls , and Edouard already striding towards the house . |
| 7 | For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle . |
| 8 | Bruno has dramatically re-entered the world heavyweight picture because of a clause in a TV contract that prevents George Foreman immediately fighting for the world title . |
| 9 | Two days , with a planetful of crooks looking for me … and Mala perhaps staying on the planet , with Gharr … |
| 10 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 11 | Why is Phil always slobbering on the reviews pages ? |
| 12 | As she and Adam left , Buzz turned back to see Elinor silently looking at the ceiling . |
| 13 | They went into the boutique , Alyssia barely glancing at the racks of exquisitely made clothes , nodding distractedly in agreement when Nicole picked out an exotic pink strapless dress and asked whether she thought it would suit her . |
| 14 | Interestingly , ICL is also one of about a dozen alpha sites for Cypress ' HyperSparc — there are two unnamed companies in Germany also playing with the thing — indeed it reportedly found seven bugs in the chip-set for Cypress . |
| 15 | Graf 's withdrawal would be a major blow to Wimbledon , with Monica Seles whom she deposed from the top of the world rankings in Paris still recovering from the knife attack in Hamburg on April 30 . |
| 16 | But Steve Nicol and Ronny Rosenthal should be available , with Jan Molby possibly figuring among the substitutes . |
| 17 | Tony Walsh scored six goals as Peppers won 12-2 at bottom-placed Palatine ( Chris Sherry , Peter Middleman ) , with Paul McGuinness ( 3 ) , Paul McGuire ( 2 ) and Steve Carroll also netting for the winners . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , insider sources suggest that Hazelwood is meeting with long-time friend Bob Dylan , to discuss the possibility of Dylan also contributing to the new Mary Chain LP . |
| 19 | Many passengers transferred from the Sophocles , I amongst them , and after much anxiety the Nestor actually sailed and it was with happy hearts that we saw Table Mountain gradually disappearing behind the horizon . |
| 20 | Done in the best tradition of ‘ silent movies ’ it was a props fight featuring vases of water , curtain drapes and balsa wood chairs , ending with Ascaris voluntarily diving through the window to escape his tormentor . |
| 21 | And then Eric Young casually idling towards the corner flag has a clearance against Simpson , Johnson the loose ball against the post . |
| 22 | Chairman of the World Championships is Albert Woods with former slalom treasurer John Liddell again looking after the finances . |
| 23 | Here , if we anticipate the arguments of later chapters , we would find Henry Fielding already mulling over the fall of decadent Rome and its lesson for Old England , and warning in his Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers ( 1751 ) of the disastrous effects of ‘ too frequent and expensive diversions among the lower kind of people ’ . |
| 24 | Iran still ranting against the West ? |
| 25 | We took up our bags and left Milhaez still sleeping on the deck . |
| 26 | Oxford still bubbling in the Coca Cola Cup . |
| 27 | Yet neither club commands very great support and even a Second Division Hartlepool or Darlington perhaps struggling at the foot of the division would be unlikely to attract more than 56,000 per game . |
| 28 | as if he could arrest their development at that stage , and set them working like articulated models in a shop window , mechanically repeating the same gestures — Mrs Mallory always pouring out a cup of tea with a warm , motherly smile ; Mr Mallory always easing himself blissfully into his chair ; Patricia always reaching for the aspirins with womanly resignation , Clare always shyly yielding to the one good-night embrace … |
| 29 | He will leave the Gemeentemuseum in the The Hague still reverberating from the public debate which he initiated over the de-accessioning of two Picassos from the museum 's collection . |
| 30 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |