Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug-of-war games , hoping to win the toy . |
| 2 | Today , leafing through the hundreds of cards from well-wishers , Lucy , 69 , brushed off her bravery : ‘ My legs have gone and I have got to get on with it . ’ |
| 3 | Meanwhile , CAJEC secretary Jack Maurice is wading through the 400 plus pages of the ‘ 88 and rising ’ responses he has received — a record for any ethics document — and wondering how he is going to satisfy all the conflicting demands . |
| 4 | Yeah , but were you the sort of people that walk into hospitals and start praying for the sick to be healed . |
| 5 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 6 | A young , a beautiful , a fairy-story mother , dying with the greatest of grace , as immortality asserted itself and pledged its reassurance in the night air of her departure . |
| 7 | Launching from the smallest of waves , more lift can be gained by lifting the windward rail thus enabling the wind to catch under the board . |
| 8 | The alarm that such a prospect generated in England was real and intense : in March 1336 Philip VI ordered the French fleet which had been assembling in the Mediterranean for a crusade to transfer to the mouth of the Seine , and Edward felt convinced that Philip was planning a large-scale invasion of England . |
| 9 | We can recover the matrix C ( and also B ) defined in ( 2.10.1.13 ) by assigning to p , q , r , s the values 1 , 1.52 , 3 , 0.92 appearing in the diagonal of C. |
| 10 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 11 | More than thirty works by Balla , Boccioni , Marini , Medardo Rosso , Fontana and Manzó figure in ‘ A Short History of Modern Italian Sculpture ’ opening on the 22nd at Baldaccio-Daverio and lasting until 6 June . |
| 12 | A second tricky little pattern was appearing beside the first on Alice 's form . |
| 13 | date in your diary , you know , the draw 's happening on the thirtieth of November , and you know , er |
| 14 | It is not entirely without foundation : holidaying on the cheap in such places as super-smart St Moritz , Zermatt and Gstaad is next to impossible , whatever the tourist offices there might say . |
| 15 | Note that the law relating to the last of these excuses , concerning distance to school from home and transport arrangements , has been amended following the decision of the House of Lords in Rogers v Essex County Council ( 1986 ) . |
| 16 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 17 | Very few local authorities responded to these recommendations and of those that did a number are in the process of returning to the five to eleven pattern . |
| 18 | This is where I performed my gravity-defying experiments with the wind before returning to the cliff-top in the company of a couple of other walkers who , like me , were thoroughly enjoying these extraordinary conditions . |
| 19 | The mill was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century , reverting by the mid-1850s to its original purpose , that of corn milling . |
| 20 | Corgi 's answer to All the Sweet Promises , a long , absorbing , atmospheric Second World War tale of four different girls meeting as the first of the WAAFS and contributing courageously to the fight . |
| 21 | But again that 's I noticed erm looking through the particular about the organization er sheet , is actually there 's something in there about that as well . |
| 22 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 23 | No drama school panel is looking for the ultimate in audition technique but candidates should possess a noticeable degree of competence and self-awareness . |
| 24 | I 'm not looking for the exotic in my photographs . |
| 25 | I 'm not looking for the exotic in my photographs . |
| 26 | These distinguished prints are divided into eight parts , ranging through The Poor in Paris , Manet and Spain , Paris Spectacle , Olympia , Portraits , War and Commune ( referring to the FrancoPrussian war of 1871–2 ) , Japonisme ( the theme of an exhibition in Sunderland a year or two ago ) and La Parisienne . |
| 27 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 28 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 29 | Among the shadier entertainments in the Paris of the 1930s was the cirque érotique , or ‘ erotic circus ’ which combined all the fun of the race meeting with the raciest of nightclub shows . |
| 30 | Yet the Empire which the British Navy defended , and which made Britain an Asiatic power , or a world power , or indeed a power at all , was not the few million kith and kin living in North America or in Australasia or mingling with the Dutch in South Africa . |