Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun and HP then secretly allied , bringing together expertise in the operating system and user interface respectively . |
| 2 | and Imperial , it does so with the clear intention of keeping only part of the business for its own portfolio and selling the rest to the highest bidder . |
| 3 | They penetrate south to varying degrees , blue and minke whales often appearing well south of the pack ice edge . |
| 4 | That road must have passed close to the place now called Chiswick , but keeping well north of the river swamps , probably along the northern boundary of the area which subsequently became known as Turnham Green . |
| 5 | The Philistine culture too , developing further south on the coast of Palestine , may have roots in the Minoan trading empire ; Bury ( 1951 ) mentions that an ancient name for Gaza was Minoa , which implies that it too was once a Minoan trading station . |
| 6 | ‘ The Prime Minister is guilty of releasing only part of the information , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Going home minute of the day ! |
| 8 | South Georgia and Heard Island , lying well south of the Antarctic Convergence , are both heavily glaciated . |
| 9 | Here is an extract from a letter written by an indignant rentier to his bailiff ( Driver , no. x ) : When in the next century Alexander the Great , after winning the battle of Issos in Cilicia , turned south against Egypt rather than going immediately east towards the Iranian centre of the Persian Empire , his decision , as we shall see , was strategically sensible ; what is surprising is that the Persians surrendered so quickly , not trying to defend Egypt at all , although economically Egypt probably mattered more to the Persian upper class than any other satrapy . |
| 10 | This makes Britain in autumn a very special place as a staging post for birds flying further south to the Mediterranean and Africa and as a winter home for many others . |
| 11 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
| 12 | My eldest daughter Ailsa was staying there part of the time , studying art at the Byam Shaw College of Art , and falling in love with her tutor , whom she later married . |
| 13 | After knowing only life at the highest level of the game , McGrain is full of admiration for the players Arbroath have assembled from Tayside , Edinburgh and Glasgow who combine playing , training and travelling long distances with everyday jobs . |
| 14 | I put my receiver down , hearing only silence on the line , and wondered what she looked like , and how deeply she was ill . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a bit of an aphrodisiac apparently , ’ I explained — ‘ which is tremendously useful when you 've just done a two-and-a-half hour show , driven 45 minutes home , eaten a baked potato the size of a human foot , scrubbed off two layers of greasepaint , nose shading , violet eyeshadow and seemingly permanent mascara , brushed one and a half cans of lacquer off the split ends , flossed the gums , massaged the bridgework , popped the ear plugs over the acupuncture needle , put the airplane mask over the anti-ageing eye cream and — pièce de lack of résistance — applied the ‘ Tonic Bust ’ to prevent anything descending further south during the night . |
| 16 | In all cases it is not a matter of tearing them down ( at least not at the time of the communication ) but of making then part of the communication . |
| 17 | She could hear Maria clattering about with her water buckets in the yard and far off church bells ringing somewhere north of the Arno . |
| 18 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 19 | Setting aside mathematics for the moment , the different levels can be seen in terms of scale ( which Hodgson 1985 neatly gives in centimetres ) , in terms of envelopes ( Needham 1969 ) or perhaps best in terms of levels of organization ( since physicists argue that they relate to ‘ all levels of scale ’ ; Institute of Physics 1988 , p. 2 ) . |
| 20 | Our research suggests that after the sale of the music business to Thorn , the trusts would have got about four hundred and fifty million pounds , even after paying off debts and setting aside money for the initial expansion of Virgin Atlantic , that would still leave about two hundred and fifty million . |
| 21 | For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above . |
| 22 | However , Northern blot analysis ( Fig. 2 ) show a transcript of about 3.2 kb suggesting that the cDNA clone is close to full length , probably missing only part of the 3' untranslated sequence and the poly A tail . |
| 23 | This ringwork is the most impressive of a series of earthworks stretching away west of the church towards the village . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not feeling particularly kind at the moment , ’ Mrs Doran snapped . |
| 25 | Spray it over your hair , ensuring even distribution down the hair length . |