Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] [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 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 .
6 Thatcher 's rating in the opinion polls was crashing as the dole queues lengthened .
7 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 .
8 BURGLARS smashed their way into a family home by driving through the patio windows .
9 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 .
10 Just before dusk one of the villagers , walking through the church grounds , saw the abbe in the garden looking down at the carp pond .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 He was walking past the barley granaries now , three rough structures of tamarisk planking .
20 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 .
21 It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed .
22 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 .
23 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 ) .
24 Local authorities have been cooperating with the health authorities in the provision of community care schemes for several years under special arrangements for joint finance .
25 I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts .
26 The most heroic plays were made as we leapt to stop the ball hitting the wooden door to the hall or banging into the metal shutters over the window , which would have brought the guards running in .
27 SHOPPERS need have no fear walking under the glass roofs of shopping centres in spite of reports of shattered panes injuring bystanders , a spokesman for The Forge shopping centre said in Glasgow yesterday .
28 Then of course there 'll be a team checking with the auction rooms .
29 He 's the fellow who you will see wandering backstage before , during and after The Word goes on air , fraternising with the celebrity guests and chatting to the audience .
30 Perks were climbing into the utility bunkers of the parking bay , bobbing about in there .
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