Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 2 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 3 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 4 | I 've got several people helping me all over the area , and I watch three or four games on a Sunday myself . ’ |
| 5 | What are we doing Wednesday ? yes , we 'll have one there , and we 'll have one there , I 'm sticking them all over the place , but you 'll see what I mean . |
| 6 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
| 7 | Nigel invited them all in for food and drink and listened spellbound to feats of derring-do , asking endless questions and reminding me slightly of the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh . |
| 8 | Their performances have , over the years , given ordinary people a much-needed reason to feel pride in their native city , while binding them together in the sharing of two terrible tragedies . |
| 9 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 10 | Above and top : Polypterus ornatipinnis — even a large pair of these were not beyond Derek 's ingenuity when it came to bringing them home from the USA . |
| 11 | This latter period saw the creation of a labour code ( 1943 ) limiting the functioning of unions to a local and plant level and bringing them tightly under the control of the Ministry of Labour . |
| 12 | A plantation of 30,000 artificial palms would fundamentally shift cloud patterns near coastal deserts , drawing them overland from the sea . |
| 13 | But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind . |
| 14 | ‘ It was very competitive with everyone stabbing everyone else in the back as they tried to become stars . |
| 15 | ‘ As he was knocking me all around the ring , ’ said Holyfield , ‘ I thought he 'll miss soon and maybe I 'll get the chance to knock him out . ’ |
| 16 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 17 | Slowly curl the dumb-bells upwards to shoulder height , twisting them gradually during the full movement until the palms are facing you . |
| 18 | They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century . |
| 19 | He aimed his pencil flash , checking me underneath of the chassis . |
| 20 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
| 21 | ‘ Now then , ’ he said , crouching under the eave and seating himself comfortably at the foot of his bed , ‘ what 's it all about , eh ? ’ |
| 22 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 23 | It allows the vehicle to manoeuvre without tearing itself apart on the back axle . |
| 24 | On the air at five o'clock very soon Tim driving you home plus the early evening sequence till nine . |
| 25 | The fringing reef came into view as well : a ragged line of breakers , huge walls of spume and the ocean hurling itself relentlessly against the coral . |
| 26 | ‘ I love you — naught else matters , ’ she said , moving away and seating herself demurely on the furskin rug in front of the fire . |
| 27 | Jason Page , 17 , had already punched and kicked Daisy Castle before stabbing her twice in the chest , a St Albans Crown Court jury was told . |
| 28 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 29 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 30 | A few weeks after their visit to the Peristrephic Panorama , her father was rowing her slowly across the serpentine lake on the neighbouring estate of Lord F- . |