Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 2 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 3 | Jim Richards describes spotting him on the terrace of Shepheard 's Hotel , Cairo . |
| 4 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 5 | By continually sharing speaking and listening — if you are trying to convey something , it is very distracting if the receiver keeps interrupting you in the middle of a sentence . |
| 6 | she , keeps checking me for the thyroid as well now , every time I go and the tablets are all going haywire , she takes a blood test , a blood thing you know , your pulse every time I go |
| 7 | PICASSO keeps taking me to the Rotonde , ’ the rising young poet Jean Cocteau wrote to a friend in 1916 . |
| 8 | She keeps poking me in the side with every step . |
| 9 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 10 | ‘ Silly old bugger , ’ she says suddenly , as Fairfax , in the way of elderly men who have once been very athletic , hobbles and skips to the lavatory , trying to shake the easily accumulated stiffness out of his limbs , as though by this display of sprightliness he can somehow leap out of the tethers fi-xing him to the earth . |
| 11 | When a shape recogniser is used that produces alternative candidates the application of word structure involves determining which of the possible character combinations form words . |
| 12 | Beyond that the angles involved become just too small to be measured and we have to use a quite different kind of technique which involves knowing something about the properties of the objects we 're looking at . |
| 13 | It means encountering him as the one who is eternally present before us and who therefore meets us now . |
| 14 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 15 | Many believe that playing standards will improve only when more young players are attracted to rugby , which means getting them into the clubs at youth level . |
| 16 | This effectively means tying ourselves into the rigorous German system of controlling monetary policy and inflation which , in the postwar period , has meant that the Germans have enjoyed consistently lower interest rates that those prevailing in the UK . |
| 17 | Saves leaving them in the car , probably only for about two hours , I do n't know if it 's better leaving at home or taking with me , there 's . |
| 18 | Holding the mussel with both forefeet , it begins pounding it on the rock until it is sufficiently broken to allow the otter to extract the flesh with its teeth . |
| 19 | Once again the effort required to write the automatic test equipment test programmes and associated diagnostic tables often precludes updating them in the light of experience or after modifications . |