Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not realizing that they were pr preaching about the glory that been . |
| 2 | The services affected , described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 are : transfers and assignments of copyright , patents , licences , trademarks and similar rights ; advertising services ; services of consultants , engineers , consulting bureaux , lawyers , accountants and other similar services ; data processing and provision of information ( but excluding from this head any services relating to land ) ; acceptance of any obligation to refrain from pursuing or exercising , in whole or part , any business activity ; banking , financial and insurance services ( including reinsurance , but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities ) ; the supply of staff ; the letting on hire of goods other than means of transport ; and the services rendered by one person to another in procuring for the other any of the above services . |
| 3 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 4 | Isle of Wight Isle of Wight , ferry , yeah , and we , we all buy , we all buy chips yeah , and the next minute , you know , we 're all walking into the arcade all these girls just come up to us and start taking chips . |
| 5 | His wife was lurking in the basement all the time Eleanor was there , so that he did not feel safe getting close . |
| 6 | For 1981 , the graph , representing in the main those born during the twentieth century , was more rectangular . |
| 7 | Albert Popple had decided to go down the Lamb and Flag after walking round the block several times . |
| 8 | The twelfth abbot , according to the guidebook , was the subject of complaints to the Pope , that he had treated his flock , ‘ not like a gentle shepherd , but like a ravening wolf , harrying it ‘ with the stings of affliction , and the bites of persecution ’ , bestowing its property upon his kinsfolk and driving from the monastery those who dared to oppose him' . |
| 9 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 10 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 11 | No okay because it 's as I was saying usually between sort of round about the middle of the day there 's people knocking on the door all the time so if you can sort of get sort of earlier or later it 's we 're likely to have a y'know half an hour when I can show you to do S P S S on it . |
| 12 | I 'm still not keen on that side of it — it 's nice to be popular , it 's nice to be loved , but it 's not so nice to be chased round and to be on the front page of the paper every day of your life , with people climbing over the wall all day long . |
| 13 | We lean over the balcony , marvelling over the way this industrial city , drab and dour by day , transforms itself at night . |
| 14 | The final year ( Part II ) will allow in-depth research into chosen areas relating to the consumer such as Food Science and Technology ; Textiles and Technology ; Family and Community Studies ; and Marketing Management . |
| 15 | FOLLOWING its highly successful run at the King 's last year ‘ Buddy ‘ , The Buddy Holly Story will be returning to the theatre this summer . |
| 16 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |
| 17 | There is also a Segregation Unit , used both for punishment and to isolate men for their own protection or for other reasons ; a hospital unit , and a hostel from which eleven men can work in the town during the day , returning to the prison each night . |
| 18 | Ski free in France : eat and sleep rurally and ski touristically by driving to the resort each day . |
| 19 | And people walking on the pavement all it totally and I thought what a cheek . |
| 20 | And yet what was there to stop him walking down the hill that very morning and putting the question to Martha ? |
| 21 | In Tchaikovsky 's Second Symphony , Svetlanov allowed some brash brass and unrefined woodwind , seemingly relying on a performance routine rather than applying to the score any insight into the instrumental detail , the folk intonations which can bring it to life in terms of rhythm and melodic inflection . |
| 22 | We were laughing at the Sun this morning , had a picture of Neil Kinnock 's head in the light bulb and it said , could the last person out of Britain please turn the light off after them . |
| 23 | 11.1 Save as provided in clause 11.2 no agent adviser or other person acting for the Landlord has at any time prior to the making of this agreement been authorised by the Landlord to make to the Tenant or to any agent adviser or other person acting for the Tenant any representation whatever ( whether written oral or implied ) in relation to the Site or the Premises or to any matter contained or referred to in this agreement |
| 24 | He 's been bouncing about the office all day like a rubber ball . ’ |
| 25 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 26 | The people needed to be living in the house that night . |
| 27 | Yanto recalled him boasting in the pub that ‘ be prepared ’ had been his motto ever since leaving the boy scouts . |
| 28 | WRITING in the Lancet this year , a Glasgow team led by Professor Rona MacKie , identified four key ‘ risk factors ’ : |
| 29 | Have you li I was listening to the wireless this afternoon |
| 30 | A reminder to you if you 're listening to the programme this morning and er you are concerned about the creation of this tip at the Gascoigne Wood mine in Selby that you can call us and put your question to York six four one six four one is the number to call . |