Example sentences of "[vb past] in [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hanger was also well supported by his lead , Ray Gaskins who vied in drawing to the jack with his opposite number , new international Palmer . |
| 2 | They had their tea together , and Clare delighted in eating from the same plate as Tess . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She confirmed in writing to the company that she intended to return to work on 11 February 1991 . |
| 6 | What is surprising and interesting is not de Gaulle 's disenchantment with the parliamentary game , which was hardly new , but the perseverance that he showed in sticking with the RPF . |
| 7 | In a separate section of the statement , France joined in calling on the Libyan government to " prove by concrete actions its renunciation of terrorism " . |
| 8 | ‘ The understanding of our history we achieved in preparing for the 70th anniversary of October is not something frozen and given once and for all . |
| 9 | Even if they succeeded in breaking through the sepoy lines , where would they go ? |
| 10 | After heated debate and repeated votes , Gorbachev succeeded in pushing through the legislation , which effectively meant the deputies voting themselves out of office . |
| 11 | An example of this procedure is the Declaration on border controls and immigration which Britain succeeded in appending to the Single European Act . |
| 12 | He was wounded eight times altogether , and on the last occasion he succeeded in getting into the air before the scars were properly healed . |
| 13 | It was all too clear that the writers actually understood little about the subject matter , and that the understanding they succeeded in imparting to the public was correspondingly less . |
| 14 | They succeeded in closing off the third of five underground conduits formed beneath the surface crust and through which red-hot magma has been flowing . |
| 15 | Somehow , in the confusion of rapid troop movements , El Cid never succeeded in joining with the royal army , though he certainly attempted I to do so . |
| 16 | We shall see how much or how little of local nuances it succeeded in conveying to the top authorities . |
| 17 | That they had any cohesion at all was impressive and when they also succeeded in driving through the heart of the French forwards an improbable victory became at least possible . |
| 18 | However an indirect example is Paul v. Summerhayes where fox hunters persisted in riding over the land of a farmer in spite of his protests and were held to have committed trespass . |
| 19 | Even the elements failed to subdue him — on one occasion he persisted in declaiming from the balcony overlooking the square at Samis for more than an hour , in the course of which a downpour cut the loudspeaker system dozens of times . |
| 20 | The hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) persisted in talking about the new harsher penalties that would be available under the Bill . |
| 21 | The understanding reached between them and the catholic — nationalist lay leadership resulted in schooling in the future state being allocated to the domain of the church , in exchange for the legitimation of that state by the church leadership . |
| 22 | But for her , the challenge in Athene lay in bringing to the attentions of the readers items which were not of specifically female concerns . |
| 23 | To that extent individual fulfilment lay in coping with the demands of society and the dividing line between the private and public domains was blurred . |
| 24 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |
| 25 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 26 | Very many thanks indeed for all the trouble you took in seeing to the distribution , filling-in , and return of the questionnaires . |
| 27 | A very quick note to thank you very much indeed for all the trouble you took in seeing to the distribution , filling-in and return of the questionnaires . |
| 28 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |
| 29 | There were certainly questions that I had in listening to the lecture and reading of the material and erm as herself said , there does seem to be something of an in own thinking about this . |
| 30 | BOB HOSKINS and JOHN LEGUIZAMO ( Hispanic-American actor who starred in Hanging With The Homeboys ) begin shooting the Super Mario Brothers movie , the first film based on a Nintendo game , soon . |