Example sentences of "[vb infin] [subord] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember when coming into the flat , do you remember who entered it first ? |
| 2 | Perhaps one of the most important groups for the stimulation of change is that which falls between these two poles : those teachers who I would see as belonging to the 25 to 35 year-old age group , or perhaps those who have not been teaching for more than six , or less than three , years . |
| 3 | He opened this and , from the darkness , picked up a long , narrow ladder , the type soldiers climb when scaling a castle wall , or a tiler might use when working on the roof of a house . |
| 4 | But do n't be overconfident about what others will understand when making off the cuff remarks to those you know well . |
| 5 | In this position , the glider is on a base leg for any available field upwind and it is easy to look back and decide whether returning to the field is practical . |
| 6 | WE should note when talking of the Rover car company 's current success that it was Honda of Japan that modernised Rover 's factories . |
| 7 | We encountered this view at the beginning of this book , in the dialogues of Plato , where we found talk of ‘ the ascent to see the things in the upper world [ which ] you may take as standing for the upward journey into the region of the intelligible ’ . |
| 8 | Sylvia was able to take from the cupboard only those items she could reach while standing in the hall itself . |
| 9 | If they want a kitsch little anthem they can sing while aspiring to the next set of double glazing or automated garden gnomes , that 's okay by me , because that song is a BOMB delivered from Scotland . ’ |
| 10 | The Finns tell of a long-ago New Year festival where children would sing while marching through the village holding candles above their heads . |
| 11 | You may find when shopping around the travel agents that most of them lay off their bets through Cresta who seem to have the inside curve . |