Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he marketed Playboy — and got fined for sending the Monroe picture through the mails — the only full-page colour nudes outside nudist magazines were the aborigines of the National Geographic Magazine . |
| 2 | Yet in the end it sold the site for three times the amount that the City expected to obtain by demolishing the buildings . |
| 3 | His mouth became occupied in tracing the line of her jaw . |
| 4 | The leaders promised to co-operate in ending the civil wars and the conflicts between states which were hindering the continent 's development , in particular the border conflict between Mauritania and Senegal , the subject of an OAU commission report presented during the summit , and the civil war in Liberia [ see pp. 37601-02 ] . |
| 5 | The problem is that plainly this depreciation charge can not reflect the periodic benefits expected to accrue from using the vehicle . |
| 6 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 7 | ‘ It was probably just an upswing in the economy , ’ she snapped angrily , incensed at the way he 'd succeeded in changing the subject . |
| 8 | ‘ Is that the soup for — ’ she had more difficulty than she 'd expected in saying the name — ‘ for Marion Maclean ? |
| 9 | That immediately poses the question of why the TCCB opted to concentrate on impressing the Test nations with large financial guarantees , instead of copying the logical example of the sub-Continent and targetting the associates ? |
| 10 | Osman had recovered from his put-down and seemed bent on recovering the ground he had lost . |
| 11 | About thirty of us gathered in a hotel in Rotherham — all people I 'd worked with including the cleaner and the consultant , and those who had them brought along their own partners , girlfriends , boyfriends and husbands and wives . |
| 12 | Hardly how she wanted to appear when she 'd planned on wearing the dress to visit the hotels she wanted to do business with . |
| 13 | He sat down at the table and began eating without tasting the food . |
| 14 | THE INDEFATIGABLE Derek Jacobi ( above left ) returns to the West End next month after a holiday in France spent recovering from playing the lead role in Jean Anouilh 's Becket . |
| 15 | The company began to talk of passing the winter in the south-west , of hiding the pageant in a barn somewhere and over-wintering on the money they had taken . |
| 16 | Ukraine threatened to retaliate by closing the pipelines on its territory transporting Turkmen gas to third countries . |
| 17 | Involved in a relationship with her since his university days he missed her , and he too began to think of making the trip . |
| 18 | When I was fit and well I began thinking about making the relay team for the European Cup Final which was to be held in Moscow . |
| 19 | The Labour leaders refused to join a reconstituted War Cabinet under Neville Chamberlain 's premiership , for party divisions were still acute : but , with the Liberals , Labour accepted an electoral truce whereby the main parties undertook to refrain from opposing the candidate of any retiring member 's party at by-elections occasioned during the war . |
| 20 | and she started talking about putting the freezer in the back garden |
| 21 | Signatories agreed to co-operate in protecting the environment of the eastern Baltic Sea , especially as regards rubbish disposal and storage of nuclear waste . |
| 22 | All parties agreed to co-operate in protecting the environment of the eastern Baltic Sea , especially with respect to rubbish disposal and nuclear waste storage . |
| 23 | The group were approached by two males who were not known to them , and the female was asked to enter the tent , and both youths took turns in entering the tent , where a serious sexual assault took place on the female . |
| 24 | That approach to construction was approved by the House of Lords in In re Smith ( A Bankrupt ) , Ex parte Braintree District Council [ 1990 ] 2 A.C. 215 , in which Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle said , at p. 238 , that , in view of the changes in policy shown by the new Act , he felt justified in construing the provision of the Act of 1986 ‘ as a piece of new legislation without regard to 19th century authorities or similar provisions of repealed Bankruptcy Acts . ’ |
| 25 | The final part of the project was Community Service — Fiona chose to help with laying the dinner tables at the Brooklyn Nursing Home for the Elderly . |
| 26 | I did think about emptying the pond this spring and coating the concrete with a rubber paint , but what about the plants . |
| 27 | However the IPG did succeed in developing the information system along problem-based lines in the normal course of their development work . |
| 28 | None the less , he did succeed in maintaining the rights of the convent and on his death in 1331 he left the priory a considerable estate of books , vestments , plate , and horses . |
| 29 | A few did succeed in reaching the border , however , and on Aug. 13 at least 15 dissidents cut through a barbed wire fence only to be arrested as they rushed towards the Demilitarized Zone which divided the two Korean states . |
| 30 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |