Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we go to press , however , LEAs are still drawing up their formulae and submitting them to the DES for approval . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll take it , ’ she said firmly , taking out my credit cards , my pen , easing me towards the Mercury phone booth which doubled as his office . |
| 3 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 4 | Business Objects SA , a French software house that markets an object-oriented data access tool for end-users which bypasses SQL , will be launching itself onto the UK market next Wednesday . |
| 5 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 6 | From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world . |
| 7 | He was n't available , so we then covered ourselves by signing him before the January deadline with a view to playing him when he became available . ’ |
| 8 | Roebuck positioned and braced himself and at the precise moment drove his shoulder into Shelford 's midriff , stopped him instantaneously , before driving him into the Onewa Domain turf . |
| 9 | Norman has been an unknown quantity since injuring his right shoulder prior to last year 's Masters , then reinjuring it at the US Open in Minneapolis . |
| 10 | Turn to allow for this drift , applying it to the QDM you are now flying . |
| 11 | Driving yourself to the Alps rather than taking the tour operator 's flight has a lot of attractions . |
| 12 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 13 | Fitting them to the NIC is a doddle . |
| 14 | Redknapp , son of West Ham assistant boss Harry , has forced his way on to the England scene after establishing himself in the Liverpool side this season . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm ordering you off the Mills case with immediate effect . ’ |
| 16 | We look forward to meeting you at the BBC Good Food Show , which will be held at the Ideal Home Exhibition on March 21–24 . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish you 'd remember what I keep urging you about the Hörst Wessel Song . |
| 18 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 19 | Orders assigning him to the Simonova 's mission were make-work , a temporary solution at best . |
| 20 | President Mikhail Gorbachev on April 20 issued a decree taking the authorization of demonstrations and other public gatherings in the centre of Moscow out of the jurisdiction of the Moscow city soviet and passing it to the USSR Council of Ministers . |
| 21 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 22 | It follows from that provision , and in particular from the passage which I have emphasised , that it is necessary to reject the United Kingdom 's argument that no infringement of article 52 has taken place because the nationality requirements do not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom and operating fishing vessels there , but only from doing so under the British flag : British citizens are not subject to that restriction . |
| 23 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 24 | The old Committee look forward to seeing you by the Robinsons pump at 12.00 or the Theakston 's Old Peculier pump at 3.00pm on the 17th August at Docklands Arena . |
| 25 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
| 26 | As well as putting the finishing touches to their epic 20-track album ‘ Gorgeous ’ — ‘ the most diverse thing we 've ever done ’ — DJing 808 duo the Spinmasters have been spinning discs over in the US , while Graham Massey has been remixing everyone from the Sugarcubes to Future Sound Of London . |
| 27 | He was making a lucrative living rustling horses , cattle and sheep from the surrounding farms by night , and then selling them in the Newbury and Marlborough markets by day . |
| 28 | And just in case it was not Magellan who & t uttered the word , then perhaps it was Pigafetta : ‘ We debouched from that Strait , ’ he later wrote , ‘ engulfing ourselves in the Pacific Sea . ’ |
| 29 | Now Taylor is looking forward to forcing himself into the England pace attack alongside the likes of Chris Lewis , Devon Malcolm and Phil DeFreitas . |
| 30 | The plants are also safe , these fish exhibiting none of the JCB habits of our old friends , the cichlids . |