Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 2 | Thérèse had the pocket torch she used for reading under the bedclothes . |
| 3 | During that first week she went out with Nahum in the trap he used for visiting in the parish , and she was continually looking for a young woman with white hair and a baby . |
| 4 | He concentrated on staying on the front foot , took few risks and made 35 from 45 deliveries with seven fours , then played Morrison on . |
| 5 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 6 | Weary unto death , listless and depressed , Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan . |
| 7 | If ( hopefully ) a solution is reached , the approach you adopted for working through the conflict is discussed . |
| 8 | Benjamin Tappan ( Dem. , Ohio ) , 1844 : censured for leaking to the press a presidential message to the Senate . |
| 9 | This is what came of dealing with the common herd . |
| 10 | Jeff came into teaching via the practical side of art . |
| 11 | Perhaps you could start off by telling me how you came into working in the lock trade . |
| 12 | Hanger was also well supported by his lead , Ray Gaskins who vied in drawing to the jack with his opposite number , new international Palmer . |
| 13 | They had their tea together , and Clare delighted in eating from the same plate as Tess . |
| 14 | Martha delighted in turning on the taps in the bathroom and watching water pour out at her command , and when that attraction palled she took to rushing into the kitchen to watch the maid turn on the fire . |
| 15 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 16 | Incapacitation means simply that the offender is ( usually physically ) prevented from re-offending by the punishment imposed , either temporarily or permanently . |
| 17 | They should be standing here now as the party of high taxation , and saying sorry to the people of Wiltshire for supporting Kenneth Clarke and his team , for supporting John Major and his team , and they should be saying sorry for the part that we pa played in lying to the electorate at the last general election . |
| 18 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 19 | Part of the fun for them came from commenting on the other dancers and inventing private nicknames for them , such as Big Feet , Sir Galahad , Merrylegs , Dreamboat , and many others . |
| 20 | She is the first to admit that she was bitten by the Puppy Love bug from quite an early age — which stood her in good stead when it came to dealing with the opposite sex in later years . |
| 21 | His success with the coffee machine was acknowledged , grudged but acknowledged , but he had been made aware that there was an argument for calling in the professionals when it came to tampering with the thermostat on the air system . |
| 22 | When it came to sleeping on the horrid , plastic bed in the sultry room we had the choice of suffocating in the heat or enduring the groaning clatter of an electric fan , which sounded like the soukoyant flapping her leathery wings , rattling at the unopenable shutters and trying to get in . |
| 23 | I came to sitting on the sofa still holding the broken pot in my hand . |
| 24 | They passed an Emergency Powers Act which , under the guise of doing anything they felt necessary to ‘ relieve the distress of the people ’ , allowed them to do as they pleased without resorting to the Volkstag for authority . |
| 25 | The first thing I noticed on getting into the ground was that the Leeds fans were making most , no , all of the noise in the ground . |
| 26 | She felt intimidated by going into the foyer bar . |
| 27 | A game of chance played by betting on the order appearance of certain cards . |
| 28 | They allowed for marking to the market , transactions costs ( which differed between institutions and members , and between long and short positions ) , and for capital gains , income and futures taxes . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the patient deteriorated after fashioning of the porto systemic shunt . |
| 30 | Mostly they consisted of reporting upon the current state of affairs in Vienna , with particular reference to the activities of certain persons suspected of being hostile to the French and their emperor . |