Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 2 | THE big guns came out firing blanks again at the US Open yesterday as the upset epidemic claimed world number one Jim Courier and three-times Wimbledon champion Boris Becker . |
| 3 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 4 | That reform will be based not on the discriminatory attitudes of Mr. MacSharry but on a sensible policy of supporting agriculture fairly throughout the Community , bringing agriculture closer to the market and ensuring that the environment is a central concern of the CAP . |
| 5 | One of the problems with the MacSharry proposals is that , instead of bringing agriculture closer to the market , they will perpetuate existing excessive levels of support for the majority of farmers . |
| 6 | It was a cry that was gathering support all over the country . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's no need to look so worried , ’ he observed softly , yanking Isabel back to the present . |
| 8 | ‘ In a way it 's quite lucky it all happened when it did — but it 's a shame for other people who will be bringing cases forward in the near future . ’ |
| 9 | His editorship ended in 1880 following a change of ownership , but in 1877 Knowles had already founded a new magazine , the Nineteenth Century , which became even more influential , bringing Knowles again into the centre of contemporary thought and politics . |
| 10 | She stormed off and away and the last thing she saw was Felipe helping Mitch out of the pool , his dark face still lightened by a very wide grin . |
| 11 | Bringing tea out on the lawn , |
| 12 | I turned with burnished wings to face the wicked young mother , accusing words already at the roof of my mouth . |
| 13 | Another organisation , ‘ Rock Against Terror ’ emerged from a nighttime incident in which musicians from two groups in Moscow were roughly treated by the police for singing songs loudly in the streets . |
| 14 | And they never needed to wear gloves , handling snow continually during the day and burning branches and steaming pans at night . |
| 15 | do you want strangulating ? , or hanging upside down on the clothes line by your toe nails ? |
| 16 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 17 | The result is the present multiplicity of bodies producing confusion both at the administrative level and on the part of the electorate , who are left wondering where and by whom decisions are actually taken . |
| 18 | Ungrateful or demanding clients particularly in the — what was then — Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 19 | So when I 'm seeing clients mainly at the end of a , of a three year , fixed-rate deposit , again at five years when we get a National Savings maturing , and so on and so forth . |
| 20 | She went straight down to the kitchen in the basement where her mutterings turned into a clear expression of disgust at the mess , cooking vessels all over the place and nothing cleared up . |
| 21 | If you insist on using GOTO all over the place , you will end up confusing yourself and maybe confusing BBCBASIC(Z80) as well . |
| 22 | As far as output is concerned , some do particularly badly — producing outputs completely in the wrong ballpark ; some , however , are rather better and a few are really quite good . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's been through a terrible ordeal , ’ she told her brother severely , drawing Ellen out of the solar with her . |
| 24 | It was the water authority of Bradford that was largely instrumental in keeping Washburndale out of the National Parks . |
| 25 | It would be a shame to see Rocky dropped again after apparently playing very well since he came into the side , but at the same time I ca n't really see him keeping Strach out of the team . |
| 26 | There are profound differences , obviously , between blasting birds out of the sky with a shotgun , sitting quietly on a riverbank waiting for the fish to bit , chasing foxes or stags over open country on horseback or sending dogs down a hole to dismember badgers . |
| 27 | Managers get the blame EDUCATION managers in County Durham were blamed yesterday for keeping money away from the schools which need it most . |
| 28 | Relating support proportionately to the severity of handicap , it may be suggested , is a nonsense in agricultural terms but the object of the LFA Directive is to stern rural depopulation and conserve the countryside by supporting farming . |
| 29 | Well you know this next door neighbour of theirs that 's been driving cars all over the place ? |
| 30 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |