Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wake of Dutskche 's wounding in Berlin the Nanterre students descended on the Sorbonne , the ancient university of Paris . |
| 2 | While holidaying in Scotland the couple became committed Christians and Andrew believes his recovery was God 's will . |
| 3 | As an example , let us briefly consider some aspects of spelling in Havelok the Dane . |
| 4 | Walking over Mickleden the route leads up to Stake Pass and goes around the shores of Derwent Water to Keswick . |
| 5 | what 's happening on March the second ? |
| 6 | Explaining to Louise the pull of foreign lands ( December 11th , 1846 ) , Gustave writes : ‘ When we are children , we all want to live in the country of parrots and candied dates . ’ |
| 7 | I fell asleep that night saying : Thank you , God , Thank you , God , and with images of myself explaining to Leon the rhythm of the forestry and fields , teaching him love for what I loved . |
| 8 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 9 | It would probably proceed as follows : from A , go to all the openings you can see ; from each of those openings , go to any further openings you can see ; by continuing this procedure , generate the tree of Figure 10 ; report the shortest sequence starting at A and ending at E. The reason for preferring a computer program to a verbal account ( for example , the one just given ) , is that , when writing a program , you are forced to say exactly what you mean ; if the program works , you know that there are no hidden difficulties with your explanation . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm looking for Jack the Ripper , ’ he said . |
| 11 | After passing through Enville the Way wanders through the lovely old village of Kinver and climbs up to its end on the sandstone ridge of Kinver Edge . |
| 12 | I churned out orgasms to order , squawking and spluttering like Sylvester the Cat on acid . |
| 13 | A WOMAN died while swimming with Fungy the TV dolphin off the West Coast of Ireland yesterday . |
| 14 | IBM Austin , or at least some faction there , is seriously interested in becoming a system software supplier — a viable alternative to Microsoft Corp and Unix System Labs — and sees remarketing Mach 3 as the way to do it , according to a report out of an OSF Research Institute meeting in Boston the week before last . |
| 15 | According to Gandhi the unity of life is such that ‘ if one man gains spiritually , the whole world gains with him and , if one man falls , the whole world falls to that extent . ’ |
| 16 | According to Murimuth the bestowal of titles on the six earls was followed by the dubbing of twenty-four new knights , and other nobles were rewarded at the same time . |
| 17 | Yet according to Rune the affair had ended more than six months ago . |
| 18 | According to Hesiod the age of idle luxury was followed successively by an age of heroes , a silver age , an age of bronze , and finally by the present iron age . |
| 19 | According to Bueche the polymer molecule may drag along several others during flow and the energy dissipation is then a combination of the friction between the chain plus those which are entangled and the neighbouring chains as they slip past each other . |
| 20 | According to Rimington the key is prevention by education rather than punishment after the event . |
| 21 | According to Weber the city 's real social and political significance was limited to the particular historical circumstances of the mediaeval period . |
| 22 | According to Hearn the WPBSA intends to take only 16 players for a week to its overseas events instead of 32 for nearly a fortnight . |
| 23 | The significant features of this meeting were : ( 1 ) the bank 's anxiety ‘ to disembarrass themselves of this unsecured overdraft , ’ i.e. the overdraft on the Dempsey accounts ; ( 2 ) according to Bunn the husband executed a mortgage on his house supporting a guarantee of the overdraft , saying that the property was in his sole name , but that the wife and children were occupiers ; and ( 3 ) again , according to Bunn 's evidence , set out at p. 361 : |
| 24 | According to Blyth the Challenge is ‘ talking to 20 companies at a high level ’ . |
| 25 | According to Krishchaty the duvet jacket bore a label with the outline of a mountain and three English letters beneath it — almost certainly the logo of the International School of Mountaineering ( ISM ) in Leysin . |
| 26 | According to Isaacs the endorsement strategy has already begun to pay off . |
| 27 | According to Aldus the program has outsold their expectations but these are early days yet . |
| 28 | Back to erm Locke 's state of nature , as I mentioned erm according to Locke the individual in the state of nature erm has certain rights which involve the enforcement of the law of nature erm and this means that he has legislative and executive authority . |
| 29 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 30 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |