Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug-of-war games , hoping to win the toy . |
2 | Today , leafing through the hundreds of cards from well-wishers , Lucy , 69 , brushed off her bravery : ‘ My legs have gone and I have got to get on with it . ’ |
3 | Meanwhile , CAJEC secretary Jack Maurice is wading through the 400 plus pages of the ‘ 88 and rising ’ responses he has received — a record for any ethics document — and wondering how he is going to satisfy all the conflicting demands . |
4 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
5 | Yeah , but were you the sort of people that walk into hospitals and start praying for the sick to be healed . |
6 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
7 | A young , a beautiful , a fairy-story mother , dying with the greatest of grace , as immortality asserted itself and pledged its reassurance in the night air of her departure . |
8 | Launching from the smallest of waves , more lift can be gained by lifting the windward rail thus enabling the wind to catch under the board . |
9 | The alarm that such a prospect generated in England was real and intense : in March 1336 Philip VI ordered the French fleet which had been assembling in the Mediterranean for a crusade to transfer to the mouth of the Seine , and Edward felt convinced that Philip was planning a large-scale invasion of England . |
10 | Though natural light was obviously not an amenity they thought much of , there are traces of glazing in a few of those infrequent and shapeless holes that howl in the wind ; elsewhere , of a primitive and not altogether unsuccessful stab at ferrocrete . |
11 | We can recover the matrix C ( and also B ) defined in ( 2.10.1.13 ) by assigning to p , q , r , s the values 1 , 1.52 , 3 , 0.92 appearing in the diagonal of C. |
12 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
13 | More than thirty works by Balla , Boccioni , Marini , Medardo Rosso , Fontana and Manzó figure in ‘ A Short History of Modern Italian Sculpture ’ opening on the 22nd at Baldaccio-Daverio and lasting until 6 June . |
14 | A second tricky little pattern was appearing beside the first on Alice 's form . |
15 | date in your diary , you know , the draw 's happening on the thirtieth of November , and you know , er |
16 | A girl was sunbathing on a lounger in the courtyard outside Culley 's window . |
17 | It is not entirely without foundation : holidaying on the cheap in such places as super-smart St Moritz , Zermatt and Gstaad is next to impossible , whatever the tourist offices there might say . |
18 | Note that the law relating to the last of these excuses , concerning distance to school from home and transport arrangements , has been amended following the decision of the House of Lords in Rogers v Essex County Council ( 1986 ) . |
19 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
20 | Very few local authorities responded to these recommendations and of those that did a number are in the process of returning to the five to eleven pattern . |
21 | This is where I performed my gravity-defying experiments with the wind before returning to the cliff-top in the company of a couple of other walkers who , like me , were thoroughly enjoying these extraordinary conditions . |
22 | Metaphorically , we can imagine theoretical astronomers breathing a sigh of relief and saying ‘ Oh , so the Sun is only shrinking by a tenth of a second of arc per century , not a full arc second after all . |
23 | The mill was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century , reverting by the mid-1850s to its original purpose , that of corn milling . |
24 | Corgi 's answer to All the Sweet Promises , a long , absorbing , atmospheric Second World War tale of four different girls meeting as the first of the WAAFS and contributing courageously to the fight . |
25 | But again that 's I noticed erm looking through the particular about the organization er sheet , is actually there 's something in there about that as well . |
26 | It was in this late period , between 1380 and 1200 BC , that the cave cult really came into its own , acting as a night-safe for the whole fund of Minoan religious beliefs . |
27 | I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year 's import quota . |
28 | You 're always looking for a four on a par-5 , but at that stage you 'd take it as long as your main opposition has n't gone away . |
29 | Having them both here busy looking for a flat for JONATHAN , who becomes nicer and nicer as he grows up ( and who can it seems sleep twelve hours on the trot night after night ) is quite exhausting , and at times annoying . |
30 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |