Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is turned away from me , oblivious of my existence , addressing someone in the shadows of humour — ‘ conceal more than they reveal ’ — which perhaps sorts with the reluctance and the sigh . |
| 2 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 3 | He 's writing something for the films , he says . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've got the school Nativity play , ’ said George , ‘ and Miss Thorne is already producing something for the Women 's Guild . ’ |
| 5 | Since none of the available usages are politically neutral , I see no value in prescribing one over the others . |
| 6 | Being apart all week means you 're doing none of the things young married couples normally do — building up a joint lifestyle , going out , having friends around and generally enjoying yourselves together . |
| 7 | But these were hardly distinguishable from drainage channels , having none of the features that we associate with canals . |
| 8 | never heard anything about Charlton chasing him ( although on the Video of the FA Cup Final you can see Wor Jackie saying something along the lines of ‘ What the f*** was that ? ’ ) . |
| 9 | Now , he wanted Terry to tell the US government to start doing something for the hostages . |
| 10 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 11 | In the past , such a sweeping move would have taken the form of a peremptory decree , but the new parliament is committed to doing everything by the rules . |
| 12 | I 'd like to do that , but you 're just giving one to the Conservatives . |
| 13 | I gather it was short and not too sweet , running something along the lines of , ‘ I 've met someone else . ’ |
| 14 | They 're not gon na be saying anything about the dangers of bullying in the recruiting office . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't wait to get at it , but I 'm not saying anything about the ideas behind it 'cause people will be doing it before I get the chance . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 17 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
| 18 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 19 | Beyond that the angles involved become just too small to be measured and we have to use a quite different kind of technique which involves knowing something about the properties of the objects we 're looking at . |
| 20 | Knowing something of the stresses and strains involved , she would have been able to share more fully in his ever-increasing involvement and total absorption with the Wyndham International Banking Corporation . |
| 21 | ‘ Once you start taking people from poor families you might well be tempted to concentrate just on them , and in the end you wo n't be taking anyone from the streets at all . ’ |
| 22 | But the cubicle in which the yellow sheet had been found could reveal no further secrets , and all hope had early been abandoned of learning anything from the scores of footprints which had criss-crossed the grassy area since the murder . |
| 23 | It was the one shared walk of the Rambles and I had forgotten the golden rule when introducing someone to the hills , never to stretch them beyond their ability . |
| 24 | The handwriting will be much too smooth and even in appearance , showing none of the alterations of thickness , pressure and overall individuality of an ordinary letter . |
| 25 | To the extent to which it makes sense to speak of interactions between whole nations at all , we suggest that the two superpowers and their allies may indeed be playing something like the paranoids ' hypergame . |
| 26 | The problem lies with systems of universal education which pretend that they are in the business of educating everybody to the limits of their potential , while hypocritically and determinedly doing the opposite . |
| 27 | Churchill was telling everyone of the dangers in Europe but no one would listen . |
| 28 | The leave-taking this time was formal , bearing none of the displays of emotion that had marked Prince Richard 's departure — the queen-dowager was but bidding farewell , it was thought , to her son 's bride , a young lady who was going to the royal palace within the Tower to keep company for a time with her husband . |
| 29 | This image of the professional justifies his demand for complete autonomy and his demand that the client give up his own judgment and responsibility , leaving everything in the hands of the professional . |
| 30 | A tenebrous gloom which had prevented Plummer from seeing anything except the lights from other buildings nearby and his own reflection in the window of the flat . |