Example sentences of "[n mass] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a gravel tidy with too fine a mesh will soon block , one with too large a mesh can see the fry ending up in the gravel bed below and the parents trying to get at them . |
| 2 | Swirling sand made visibility terrible — I had to fly the aircraft looking down through the side window because I could n't see ahead . |
| 3 | Er er an election agent , election agent when you 're er a er d doing the work of an election agent , you 've got to be responsible for all the data going out concerning the running of the election . |
| 4 | ‘ What I liked in the books was the free open-air life , the spice of illegality and daring , roguish characters — the opportunities so far exceeding my own , the gun , the great pond , the country home , the apparently endless leisure — the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher — and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln , and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent . ’ |
| 5 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 6 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 7 | It appeared that the officer had been admiring the fish swimming about in the water of the Orne when a Royal Marine Commando asked him if he would like some for his supper . |
| 8 | Rains of tiny fish cascading down on the planet . |
| 9 | At first Stuart had been excited by the sight of an occasional fish rising out of the sluggish water , but later he 'd grown bored because he was too small to row successfully , and trailing his hands over the side apparently disturbed the fish ; baling out with the old saucepan also made too much noise . |
| 10 | In schools the increasing number of para.professionals creeping in under the resources umbrella have understandably aroused suspicions in teachers ' union branches . |
| 11 | Just the club cashing in with the sad sheep crawling out of the woodwork everywhere . |
| 12 | We get people hanging around outside the flat . |
| 13 | THE switchboard of The Northern was jammed yesterday morning with people phoning up with the answer to Saturday 's Stiff Little Fingers competition . |
| 14 | Many of the stories were based on rumour , although others , like the ones about A&R men flying all over Europe to see them and high-ranking company staff jetting in from the States , were in fact true . |
| 15 | Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies . |
| 16 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 17 | Fred White and Sandy , the friend he had agreed to meet here , sat on the shore and watched people splashing about in the water . |
| 18 | I shrank back into the shadows of the alley and saw people passing by on the sidewalk . |
| 19 | I would like to wake up in half an hour and see people passing by in the street . |
| 20 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 21 | Back to the edge of the island and there was already a crowd of people looking down at the rocks . |
| 22 | The key-fobs sent to each individual member and Group secretary during 1979 have been a great success with many people writing in to the office expressing their appreciation ; it is hoped to produce a further token during out 30th anniversary year . |
| 23 | There could be no more tragically eloquent testimony to the fact that the Government 's community care policies have failed than the sight of mentally ill people spilling on to the streets every moment . |
| 24 | Eventually , he was rewarded by the sight of Inspector Sammy Pike heading out of the library and off towards the gentlemen 's cloakroom . |
| 25 | Now Mr Robertson plans to set up a support group for Swindon people growing up with the problems of different cultures at home and outside . |
| 26 | I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now . |
| 27 | British Gas Eastern spokesman Richard Dymond said of the move : ‘ It will not be 280 people going out of the gates . |
| 28 | People going out of the crush for a breather and intimate talk away from the throng could linger without the girls needing the pretty shawls they had brought out to cover their bare arms . |
| 29 | Lots of chemists have made very good chartered accountants , for example , but I would like to see very many more — let's say science trained people going out into the professions , particularly into politics . |
| 30 | Do you remember many people going off to the Red Brigade ? |