Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving through the New York night , Bickle views the city 's excesses as diseases waiting to be wiped out . |
| 2 | The noise was a foul but apt accompaniment to the schooner 's fitful motion for , with her wheel lashed and her sails only half trimmed , Wavebreaker was bridling and jerking into the short hard seas that were driving through the North-East Providence Channel . |
| 3 | You want a Sierra estate mate if you want to go knocking about the Lake District with the dogs . |
| 4 | For experienced marathoners , it could be qualifying for the Boston Marathon . |
| 5 | They found a significant negative correlation between returns during trading for the S&P500 and the subsequent returns during trading for the Nikkei Stock Average . |
| 6 | The Foreign Secretary , Peter Carrington , reported that the Argentinian fleet was steaming towards the Falkland Islands . |
| 7 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 8 | Entering Biarritz by the coast road like this , you end by driving along the Avenue Édouard VII , which leads down into the centre of the town and sets the tone for a resort that was for a while Europe 's princeliest . |
| 9 | The tidal estuary of the River Lune gave rise to Lancaster 's development as an inland port in the eighteenth century , trading with the West Indies , and several contemporary warehouses survive along St George 's Quay as well as the fine Custom House , designed in Palladian style by Richard Gillow and built in 1764 . |
| 10 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 11 | Graham began climbing with the Edinburgh JMCS and shared first ascents of significant Scottish routes like Parallel B Gully , Lochnager ( 1958 ) , Smith 's gully on Creag Meaghaidh ( 1959 ) and Vanishing Gully on Ben Nevis ( 1961 ) . |
| 12 | The victim had been walking along the Springfield Road with her four-year-old daughter when the accident happened on Wednesday . |
| 13 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
| 14 | I 'd originally gone to Czechoslovakia to photograph pollution but I 'm so glad I was pursuaded by my Czechoslovak friends to spend three days out of my precious two weeks walking in the Slovenský Raj . |
| 15 | Sonya Jeffery , Belfast Parks Department , highlights opportunities for walking in the Cave Hill area , which includes part of the Ulster Way . |
| 16 | Federalism did not prevent the same trends occurring in the United States , especially under Roosevelt 's New Deal — demonstrating the increasing irrelevance of the distinction between federal and unitary states in an era which generates overwhelming pressures towards a more centralized state . |
| 17 | I ) A similar process was occurring in the United States , though the term in use over there , " instructional technology " , is worth noting . |
| 18 | Some of the highest annual rates are occurring in the Ivory Coast and Nigeria where annual losses are currently reaching 5.2 per cent ; in Costa Rica , Sri Lanka and El Salvador the annual rates are between 3.6 and 3.2 per cent . |
| 19 | ‘ In case you 've forgotten , ’ he said , eyes flashing , ‘ you are wearing my ring and an announcement is appearing in the South China Morning Post tomorrow morning . |
| 20 | If high nitrates , phosphates , pesticides and heavy metals were n't enough in your tap water , the Daily Telegraph reports that a parasitic bug Crypto-sporidium is now appearing in the Lake District 's tap water and causing sickness , vomiting and diarrhoea . |
| 21 | When American Equity threatened to bar her from appearing in the New York version of the show , Lloyd Webber threatened to jettison it altogether . |
| 22 | It is therefore very pleasing to see appearing in the Ian Allan At War series , Jonathan Falconer 's Stirling At War . |
| 23 | 20 years ago TV 'S Second Generation dance troupe were on stage at Darlington Civic Theatre while radio 's Mrs Dale , Jessie Matthews , was appearing in the Emlyn Williams thriller Night Must Fall at York Theatre Royal . |
| 24 | Come and see me at the Apollo , Oxford , where I 'm appearing in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 25 | He had been in an air fight , and was compelled to make a ‘ pancake ’ landing in the North Sea , in the course of which he was injured . |
| 26 | Liebowitz and Horowitz ( 1968 ) suggested that what was happening in the United States at the time , was a process of merging of politics and social deviance such that they were becoming indistinguishable . |
| 27 | Mach was unhappy with what was happening in the Ping Tiao . |
| 28 | The universal salience of peacekeeping in the post Cold-War world offers the prospect of widespread attention for a project designed to contribute to our understanding of the naval instrument as a force for security . |
| 29 | Once , landing from the submarine HMS Tigris , his fellow canoeist — a Free French soldier — lost his boat in rough water , but they managed to get back to the submarine . |
| 30 | In October 1991 the company ceased trading in the United Kingdom and its business , assets and liabilities there were transferred to a United Kingdom company . |