Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stolidly avoided reacting to the word ‘ murdered ’ . |
| 2 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 3 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 4 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 5 | In October 1991 the company ceased trading in the United Kingdom and its business , assets and liabilities there were transferred to a United Kingdom company . |
| 6 | On 26 October 1991 I.B.C. ceased trading in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 8 | She stopped struggling at the sound of her name , and his hand dropped from her face . |
| 9 | Junior environment minister found careering at the wheel after midnight during the Tory party conference in Bournemouth . |
| 10 | The guests assembled in the Salle des Maréchaux , what Mme Moulton described as ‘ the Grand Salon ’ , and at nine o'clock a small procession entered consisting of the Court officers , all in their evening costume of blue with velvet collars , followed by several attendants and then , in the middle , the Emperor and Empress . |
| 11 | And all the birds that saw it stopped singing upon the instant . |
| 12 | Thus we produced a ratio of three sterile males for every normal one caught resting in the wild ; but we could detect little mating between sterile males and wild females . |
| 13 | In the meantime , motorists caught speeding through the contraflow can expect to receive a court summons in the post . |
| 14 | Christopher Tricky , seen struggling one day to remove an old tree stump near his hovel at the park gate , became , as has already been noted , the subject of ‘ Simon Lee , the Old Huntsman ’ ; a remark from Tom Poole led to ‘ The Idiot Boy ’ ; ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ told the story of a Holford shepherd found weeping in the road ; and ‘ The Thorn ’ was inspired by a weather-beaten hawthorn seen ‘ on the ridge of Quantock Hill ’ . |
| 15 | Thurso could not afford the £300 needed for the charter in 1876 when , hard on the heels of the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to ‘ The Exhibition ’ , the Town Council proposed applying for the honour . |
| 16 | Council records show that during the last 18 months 32 companies and 12 sole traders stopped trading in the town ‘ for one reason or another . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah erm so er you know you may find some traces of a more , you know , kind of er I do n't know , politicized understanding on the part of blind people as to , you know , what it means to you know kind of have their life investigated |
| 18 | The House of Lords held that the surveyor was discharging the duties of both expert and quasi-arbitrator , and was not in the position of an independent arbitrator who had no other duty which involved acting in the interests of one of the parties , and that accordingly in so acting he was not guilty of collusion or bad faith . |
| 19 | I shimmied shivering to the bedsit , slotted another shilling in the gas fire and reached for the knob on the third drawer of the tallboy . |
| 20 | He even tried looking in the oven but Mrs Bird drove him out of her kitchen with her feather duster . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know why anyone would do something like this , ’ he said , ‘ but the stickers are proper , professional ones , not just scrawled writing over the posters . |
| 22 | That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’ |
| 23 | A company rule provided for the instant and automatic dismissal of anyone found smoking on the premises . |
| 24 | As the conference afternoon wore on , two Gardai were noticed at the back of the hall standing , ears bent listening to the speeches . |
| 25 | So you 'd made a verbal contract over the phone with a lady who you found living on the premises so you had every right to believe that she owned the furniture . |
| 26 | POLICE called to deal with three goats found wandering in the middle of a road in Grays , Essex , sent Pc Billy Kidd to sort it out . |
| 27 | One successful operation involved a cub found wandering in the centre of Darlington , taken to a refuge at Throckley , near Durham , and returned to the group for release into the Yorkshire countryside . |
| 28 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 29 | Reading was difficult for me , especially when it involved looking at the chalkboard , and I soon found myself being classed as ‘ thick ’ . |
| 30 | A vast circle of storm clouds hugged the ground and rose towering into the air , so they seemed becalmed on the inside edge of a massive mauve funnel through the swirling walls of which Trent could make out , to the south , a thin line of greater darkness that he knew must be the rain forest bordering the Makaa River . |