Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 2 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 3 | Subsequently , they carried out the investigation ‘ Maxbox ’ , which involved deciding which of the open boxes that can be made from a 12 cm x 12 cm square of paper by cutting squares from the corners and folding into a lidless cuboid ‘ held the most ’ . |
| 4 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 5 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 6 | They , they stopped having them on the , the seafront anyway . |
| 7 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 8 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |
| 9 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 10 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 11 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 12 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 13 | The gang manhandled the 18-foot caravan through the gap in the fence and began pushing it across the field towards the road . |
| 14 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 15 | Ignoring her repeated instruction for him to get out , he unrolled the scroll and began spreading it over the desk , using the paperweight and penholder to secure its curling corners . |
| 16 | ‘ Constable David Owen said : ‘ The crowd remained silent after Downey shouted but when the tribute ended they began punching him round the neck , back and body and began pushing him towards us . ’ ’ |
| 17 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 18 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 19 | His colleagues , relieved to find something to talk about , began questioning him about the case . |
| 20 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 21 | The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church . |
| 22 | He enjoyed educating himself in the things he wanted to know about . |
| 23 | He went across and began washing himself at the lavarium . |
| 24 | If it is a popular tune , its spread through the meme pool may be gauged by the number of people heard whistling it in the streets . |
| 25 | Releasing her shoulders , he took a firm grip on her arm and began steering her towards the steps down to the lawn . |
| 26 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 27 | The teachers started ushering everyone to the door . |
| 28 | Then we removed the wire from the front of the box and started feeding them on the ledge . |
| 29 | ‘ It hauled me to the ground with a thump and started mauling me on the back and neck . ’ |
| 30 | The local name of the place , the Gold Pit , implies that a good deal of gold was robbed from the site before the French archaeologists started excavating it in the 1920s , and there is good reason to suppose that the so-called Aegina Treasure , which is now in the British Museum , originated here . |