Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a quiet , wise , friendly man who ran his hall with a minimum of rules and regulations , treating undergraduates as adults and impressing on them the need for courtesy and consideration in their dealings with one another , and with the domestic staff . |
| 2 | In his heart the boy Jaq vowed vengeance against daemons and against psykers who were conduits for daemons for stealing his parents from him and bestowing upon him the honour of being raised by missionaries . |
| 3 | Contracts could be with a specialist unit outside the area , which would be able to keep its facility going by attracting patients needing that care and bringing with them the cash to pay for their operation . |
| 4 | The kiss was a fierce , stormy possession , making her head swim and bringing with it the realisation that it would take no effort at all to become seriously attracted to this man ! |
| 5 | They had n't got no kids , yelling and nagging at you the minute you get in , crawling all over you in the night because they 're cutting their bloody teeth . |
| 6 | The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided . |
| 7 | Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter . |
| 8 | Please confirm that the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter . |
| 9 | This will be achieved by including in the offer letter a clause similar to that set out below : Please confirm your acceptance of the above offer by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter within the next seven days . |
| 10 | In this movement , Hegel saw the very rhythm of reality itself , both as a whole and in every part , and also the dynamics of knowledge and understanding by which the initial gulf between subject and object is bridged in genuine synthesis , the act of cognition . |
| 11 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) . |
| 12 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , in 7 BC this neat arrangement was interfered with in order to honour Augustus by renaming the month Sextilis after him ( he believed that it was his lucky month ) and assigning to it the same number of days as the preceding month that had been renamed after his murdered great-uncle by Mark Antony . |
| 14 | Events which begin by offering the boy exciting adventure end by teaching him — about people , about statecraft — and confirming in him the steadfast loyalty to the Empire which is evident in his later exploits . |
| 15 | It is a polled breed , closely related to the Swedish Mountain and the North Finnish and sharing with them the white colour-pointed coat cline . |
| 16 | Frequently the transition is managed with a back and forth movement , a re-meeting and re-parting by which the slow process of building separate lives is accomplished . |
| 17 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 18 | This involves helping the patient develop alternative and less self-blaming ideas about how other people behave towards her , and examining with her the origins and validity of her underlying sense of worthlessness . |
| 19 | It means making the development of collaboration a priority , and giving to it the same careful thought and planning as is given to other areas of children 's development . |
| 20 | In 1629 the Tsar Mikhail severely reproved Louis XIII himself for failing to use his full title in official letters and warned him that " We can not approve your habit of wishing to be our friend and yet denying and taking from us the titles and qualities which almighty God has given us and which we so justly possess . " |
| 21 | Hence , as porosity distribution and facies appear to be related , it follows that prediction of potential reservoirs can be made from facies maps , and even if facies interpretations are not available , reservoir prediction can still be done by identifying the zone of maximum thickness on an isopach map and extrapolating from it the distribution of facies and porosity . |
| 22 | The Stathern map of 1792 shows the same planning of new roads in more or less straight lines and judging by what the Ordnance map shows in other parts of the Midlands and eastern England the same thing happened fairly generally . |
| 23 | The chief executive or clerk of a local authority is always anxious to assist members by giving and obtaining for them the fullest information for their work . |
| 24 | As explained at our meeting , MAS 's involvement in due diligence tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and reviewing with yourselves the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on price and your warranty and indemnity requirements . |
| 25 | He passes on the recipe , modified to suit himself , and carrying with it the characteristically deflating note : |
| 26 | Others , on some of the more northerly islands , away from the emotion and strength of feeling in South Ronaldsay , were still murmuring that ‘ there 's no smoke without fire ’ and speculating on what the parents of the nine children had been up to . |
| 27 | Instead , the Scotland stand-off 's tragic misfortune figured in the jeering and taunting to which the wives and girl friends of the players , and of others in the SRU party , were subjected . |
| 28 | It is no good going to a dog training club once a week and forgetting about it the rest of the week . |
| 29 | Upper- and middle-class Victorian men relied on working-class female prostitutes to satisfy their sexual appetites , while demanding purity of their wives and inflicting upon them the impossibly sentimentalized and saintly ideal of the Virgin Mother . |
| 30 | Try to make her understand how other people feel by putting herself in their shoes ; by that , I do n't mean hitting her over the head yourself , but explaining to her the pain of the other child when she hit him . |