Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 2 | The waves were crashing down rising into the air , then crashing against the water below , spreading the beach with a white spray . |
| 3 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 4 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 5 | It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam . |
| 6 | They say that you can easily spot the tourists in the Big Apple — they are the people walking around gazing at the sky , at the tops of the skyscrapers . |
| 7 | Ore was also carted down from a hopper at Top Level , the track crossing the beck directly below the waterfall then winding around to connect with the Levers Water — Paddy End track . |
| 8 | It 's the window he 's stepping through to wave to the crowd . |
| 9 | As he spoke I could hear the rush of shells passing over heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 10 | Apple 's out to prove that its alliance with IBM will revolutionise the computer industry : so it 's offering a free video on the subject and picking up leads in the process . |
| 11 | He slammed into a wall , his head snapping back to crack against the plaster , then he fell forward . |
| 12 | Wandering around looking at the different displays , she experienced a strange sensation of being drawn towards something . |
| 13 | The commotion caused a young couple passing by to go into the gallery to have a closer look at the paintings . |
| 14 | But does n't does n't it often work out though that the people who erm need more training , often are the ones that have resisted going on training in the past . |
| 15 | Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital . |
| 16 | Very often pupils will benefit from the opportunity to see and handle , and discuss a few selected artefacts at close hand , before going on to work in the display galleries . |
| 17 | His mother trekked North to the St Mary 's Anglican Mission station , where he received his education before going on to study at the Rorke 's Drift Art and Craft Centre in Natal . |
| 18 | It is important to note , before going on to look at the main body of legislation in detail , that prior to 1980 , when insider dealing first became a statutory offence ( by virtue of Part V of the 1980 Companies Act ) , the legislative means of curtailing the practice was limited to disclosure provisions contained in general companies legislation . |
| 19 | The position with regard to face-to-face transactions is considered first , before going on to look at the position in relation to impersonal stock market deals . |
| 20 | Before going on to look at the Government 's proposals in detail , we want to underline our serious concern over the threat to strategic minerals planning associated with the proposed reorganisation of local government in Wales . |
| 21 | If you 're thinking of going along to join in the fun , there 's something going on every day and evening until next Friday night . |
| 22 | At no stage would this reference ever be admissible because it 's not going to be relevant after your shield 's gone in because your shield going in relates to the questions understanding be agree or correct me but this is how I understand the situation . |
| 23 | and I I was rushing down to get to the stair . |
| 24 | Unless she 's been fiddling the books — and my accountant does n't think so — the profits your Miss Philimore has been turning in seem on the low side for a site like that . |
| 25 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 26 | I called out : ‘ I 'm going over to look at the birds , ’ and left them to it . |
| 27 | The other girls followed suit , and the waitress , after a moment 's hesitation , wrung in turn the outstretched hands before hurrying off to attend to the needs of a customer who , to judge by his impatience , was in the last stages of starvation . |
| 28 | The artist accuses Mr Debbasch , who is also Rector of the University of Aix-Marseille III , of selling off works from the Fondation Vasarely , created in 1976 , without the permission of either himself or his family . |
| 29 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 30 | And it will be sited on land troops trained on before going off to fight in the Somme . |