Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regarding the recent articles concerning the B-29 Superforts , or Washingtons , with the RAF I remembered flying them during my time in the post-war RAFVR . |
| 2 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 3 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 4 | The rest of the afternoon we spent shopping and taking in the experience of having so many shops and stalls under one roof There were all types to browse in from clothes , stationery , crafts and food as well as many others . |
| 5 | ‘ All the money I spend keeping guys in luxury , guys who are supposed to have brains . |
| 6 | Curious thing — she who held on to so many grievances , never spoke twice about the money she kept pouring out on all of us . |
| 7 | Dragging two musty-smelling blankets from the storage locker outside her door , she left one folded up as a pillow , shook the other one out and wrapped it around her , then lay down on one of the settees which provided seating and converted to pilot-berths on either side of the drop-leaf dining table . |
| 8 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 9 | And , erm to develop it there 's a timetable in the appendices about the progress we envisage making . |
| 10 | It 's a record of the hour you spent harvesting in the Frames . |
| 11 | It is much more geared to the administration of personnel records than was the bureau system but the experience we gained using the bureau has stood us in good stead for our own system . |
| 12 | ‘ When I think of all the hours you spend trying to help people with their problems … ’ |
| 13 | The kitchen itself makes cooking a pleasure . |
| 14 | One of the reasons they go shopping in groups is because not everyone agrees about which foods are OK and which ones are going to plunge you into hell-fire . |
| 15 | Reasons which authoritative directives should , but fail to , reflect are none the less among the reasons which justify holding the directives binding . |
| 16 | He 's also begun to more fully explore the reasons he keeps going back to the mountains despite the terrible cost they have inflicted . |
| 17 | That was one of the reasons he liked living out at Little Knoll , so he could have his own life , his own place that none of them at school knew about . |
| 18 | Which was one of the reasons she kept coming back . |
| 19 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 20 | Unless I receive representation to the contrary I intend inviting Clydesdale District Council to the next meeting . |
| 21 | Cars 11 and 13 were used for the inspection which included braking tests on Anerley Hill . |
| 22 | in this case the medical evidence concluded that death was from crushing of the chest which prevented breathing with death resulting within 5 minutes . |
| 23 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 24 | Mrs. Mott had complained of the noise they made going to and fro . |
| 25 | It is obvious , therefore , that to prevent noise entering your house , you need additional weight at the point of entry ; and to prevent the noise you make echoing around the house , you need soft linings in the room where the sounds are generated . |
| 26 | In London there were the cinemas she enjoyed going to , and the theatre matinées . |
| 27 | I swung the axe in swift rhythm , glad of the release it gave to the tension I felt building inside and around me . |
| 28 | Knowing this , Anna has to decide whether or not to trust the stranger she sees approaching her farm . |
| 29 | As we climbed the steps I kept hoping to see Valerie standing there , a mischievous smile on her face , the whole episode a cruel joke . |
| 30 | Oh I think that 's , when you , when I 've seen the things on the telly you know showing these traveller things , it does look a prettier island , it does look quite a lo a bit , nicer island the scenery and |