Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember years ago Edwin preaching about standing in the gap — that gap between heaven and earth , bringing the two together . |
| 2 | She heard him fumbling about looking for the lamp switch and then he found it . |
| 3 | ‘ I sat on the train and could see other commuters walking past looking at the man in horror . |
| 4 | An old upper-hab mind , lurking in hiding behind the new Fist mind ? |
| 5 | By a respondent 's notice dated 28 February 1992 the father contended that in the event of the appeal being allowed in part the order should be varied so that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing the costs incurred by the father in the family proceedings court and that sum to be calculated by a costs draftsman by reference to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 or alternatively , to an order that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing in relating to the proceedings below calculated in the same way but excluding all or part of the costs incurred on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |
| 6 | At last , after about twenty minutes ' wandering , her feet soaking wet inside her leaking boots , and her leg muscles aching from wading through the snow , she arrived at the car park outside the administration block , and found her car . |
| 7 | Thus Conventions on conflicts of laws fall within the prerogative of the Hague Conference , matters relating to shipping within the domain of the IMO and the CMI , proposals concerning air transport within that of the ICAO and IATA , and those affecting intellectual property within the remit of WIPO . |
| 8 | But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that by returning to nursing in the next decade you will be helping to prepare the profession for the enormous demographic and social challenges facing Britain in the 21st century . |
| 10 | Sublimation is the change from solid to gas on heating and from gas to solid on cooling without passing through the liquid phase . |
| 11 | THE furious Pakistani cricket team started a racism row last night after England batsman Allan Lamb accused them of cheating by tampering with the ball . |
| 12 | We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations . |
| 13 | My qualification for writing about skiing in the USA is unusual : I have never done it . |
| 14 | There is also the adjective so-called , which in a comparably explicit way calls into question the relation between an entity and the description or properties which might be supposed to belong to it : ( 42 ) it is the so-called liberals who have closed down the press The author of this sentence is not casting doubt on the existence of the people he is writing about , nor on the existence of such properties as may be characterized by the word liberals ( nor for that matter the existence of people who might be so described ) but only on the validity of the relationship between the description " liberals " and the people who are acting as censors in the situation portrayed by this particular sentence . |
| 15 | At British general elections , vote counts are reported at constituency level only , so that where a party gets its votes is largely unknown ( though party workers have efficient ways of estimating the geography of their support when acting as scrutineers at the count ) . |
| 16 | The friend he 's looking for served with the Royal Military Police in Austria from . |
| 17 | Such a system would benefit Sunderland not only financially there would be full-houses for each match but also the big crowds would surely help the Rokermen to get the safety points they are looking for to climb above the Second Division danger zone . |
| 18 | And King is once again looking for backing from the crowd . |
| 19 | I am writing with regard to the letter in which John Brunner asserts that taking Ginseng over eight to ten days resulted in acute hypertension and ‘ pressure headaches ’ ( Letters , 6 January , p 44 ) . |
| 20 | I am writing with regard to the small article ‘ Christie 's to hold sales in Germany ’ that appears in the November edition of The Art Newspaper . |
| 21 | I am writing with regard to the article entitled ‘ Double sting of Japanese museum and leading U.S. dealer ’ , which appeared in the May 1992 edition of The Art Newspaper . |
| 22 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
| 23 | MONDAY : First a stop at the tiny island of Antipaxos with time to enjoy watersports , then on to Lefkas , with time for exploring and swimming before partying in the evening . |
| 24 | 8.3 Wardens of sheltered housing require training in dealing with the problem . |
| 25 | We published Agenda for the 90's , a statement of RIBA policies ranging from Housing to the Environment and used it as a tool with which to lobby parliamentary candidates for the General Election . |
| 26 | Pace that 's right you 've been cheating and looking on looking on the next page |
| 27 | Already looking at playing in the 1995 Rugby World Cup , Japan stole a march on emerging Asian rivals , Hong Kong , by bringing forward the dates of next year 's Asian Championship . |
| 28 | In those days there was considerable emphasis on its carcass quality and 60,000 fat Jutlands were sent to England with another 30,000 lean cattle going for fattening on the German marshes . |
| 29 | Suddenly we are no longer human , we 're some desperate machine crashing and pumping before exploding through the room . |
| 30 | It is doubtful if anything remotely striking will be forthcoming as regards either ISDN or OSI in the two years remaining before dawning of the brave new communicative continent in 1992 . |