Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 2 | He came back without warning , overriding his own harbingers and flashing through the opening gates and straight to the hall , heralded only by the flag streaming above him . |
| 3 | And you 'd hear the tracer bullets rattling about the tin sheds . |
| 4 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 5 | Then there are those who will tell you that the winter storms sucking through the Magellan Straits are the most deadly . |
| 6 | They have a talent for using as a lever planks or anything else that comes to hand . |
| 7 | Catering for the sports enthusiasts has become a top priority for the weekend resort . |
| 8 | It was alright at Euston Station on the way up because we had plenty of time for loading — but — on the return journey we could see the train approaching while still careering through the country lanes on our coach . |
| 9 | Thatcher 's rating in the opinion polls was crashing as the dole queues lengthened . |
| 10 | Again in 1948 , after struggling through the war years , for which services they were grossly undercompensated , these 4 grouped companies , virtually bankrupt , were nationalised , and the less profitable lines , often many of them rural , were closed and the tracks lifted . |
| 11 | In one famous passage the hero vents his frustration by masturbating through a paper shoji screen — a sign of contempt for yet another revered symbol of Japanese culture . |
| 12 | BURGLARS smashed their way into a family home by driving through the patio windows . |
| 13 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 14 | Just before dusk one of the villagers , walking through the church grounds , saw the abbe in the garden looking down at the carp pond . |
| 15 | Although the City Council paid the bill for dry cleaning he never forgot the smell or the indignity of walking through the City streets on a summer evening drenched in manure . |
| 16 | After qualifying for the East semi-finals in impressive style , Essex beat Hertfordshire 3–1 and trounced Cambridgeshire 5–1 in the final , after taking a 2–0 lead at half-time . |
| 17 | Since qualifying as a Medau teachers in 1968 she has taught regular classes for adults , children and the mentally handicapped . |
| 18 | When my hon. Friend the Minister made it clear that such a student would be invisible , that a student returning for the summer holidays would not affect that household , I was not sure whether the hon. Lady was pleased or angry . |
| 19 | And most shops in the region are now dusting off the platform shoes and diamante brooches , which have been centre of the autumn collections of the last 50 years . |
| 20 | To supplement the engineering investigation there could be one investigator concentrating on the aircraft structure and flying controls , with another working on power plants , i.e. engines and fuel systems , another concerned with hydraulic , electrical , pneumatic and electronic systems , and yet another checking through the maintenance records . |
| 21 | There may follow a lack of communication and understanding between the computer professionals , the legal advisers , the ultimate users and the supplier of the software resulting in the purchase of a system which is cumbersome , does not provide all the information the users now realize they would have liked and which runs far too slowly to be of any practical use . |
| 22 | The socialist sisters Margaret and Rachel Macmillan were especially active , first in Bradford , then in London , in pressing through the school boards and municipal councils for more municipal and state provision for the health of infants . |
| 23 | He found he was walking as a dog walks , its head twisted round to gaze into its master 's face , waiting for a stick to be thrown , wagging its tail . |
| 24 | The procedure for applying for the prerogative remedies of certiorari , prohibition and mandamus is contained in Order 53 of the Rules of the Supreme Court ( RSC ) , some provisions of which have been re-enacted in statutory form in section 31 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 25 | He was walking past the barley granaries now , three rough structures of tamarisk planking . |
| 26 | Each bedroom would be reached via a staircase sited in the central bay , but headroom for a lower-storey living-room could not be achieved below this stair and still give an adequate height for a door opening beneath the truss tie-beams , allowing unobstructed access from the main landing into the bedrooms . |
| 27 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 28 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 29 | Many Czechs believe their product , with its justified reputation as one of the world 's great beers , is interfering with the marketing plans of the US giant , thus explaining the American interest . |
| 30 | In dosing as a prophylactic measure , the pondkeeper runs the risk of using the wrong remedy , at the wrong dosage , and interfering with the filter bacteria ( which , in spring at least , require a boost , not a setback ) . |