Example sentences of "of [pron] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land Trusts , he thought , should be responsible for the proper exploitation of resources and would need to pay attention to the human and social needs of everyone living in the area . |
| 2 | The hope of everyone campaigning for the survival of the 130-year-old warship builder is that work will be allowed to continue on three frigates which are at various construction stages . |
| 3 | Oi Dan I 've got ta , I 've got ta play you , I 've got ta play you later on of me apologizing to the Norwegians . |
| 4 | Yeah but instead of me swimming to the steps |
| 5 | No , no I did n't tell anybody when I you know I when I was doing me upmost , of course they knew afterwards that er because of me going in the hospital you see . |
| 6 | Long-focus shots of me groping in the dark , or will it be more close-ups of my stupidity ? ’ |
| 7 | Anyway , I 've always had this real fear of me appearing in the Mail On Sunday with my eyes shut and looking pissed , with some caption underneath saying ‘ Whose beer is it anyway ? ’ or ‘ Have I got booze for you ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Ace turned off the news by remote control , cutting off the picture of them getting into the car on their way to the reception . |
| 9 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
| 10 | ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it . |
| 11 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 12 | There was one of them caressing on the beach at Crystal Springs , and another of the glamorous couple wrapped around each other in the crystal-clear water of the hotel beach . |
| 13 | In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company . |
| 14 | In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company . |
| 15 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |
| 16 | Mark Petchey , Neil Broad and Sean Cole all won their first round matches to join their team mates with four of them moving into the quarter-finals . |
| 17 | I imagine that the brunt of this will be borne by younger voters , many of them voting for the first time , who possibly do not realise that in addition to voting they must also pay poll tax . |
| 18 | Recently we had the sorry spectacle of some of them voting against the progressive EC Social Chapter which is designed to improve the lot of the employee . |
| 19 | There seemed to be more of them collecting by the minute . |
| 20 | A magnificent crowd of 83 witnessed the ceremony , 32 of them staying for the match . |
| 21 | An ordinary freedom-fighter or revolutionary — and there were a great many of them operating in the Holy Land at the time — might well have won popular support for his actions , but could not have been acclaimed as the Messiah . |
| 22 | Twenty minutes later they were on their way , the three of them piling into the big black Mercedes and heading back to the railway station . |
| 23 | Some of them swimming in the sea and whatnot . |
| 24 | There were hundred of them flying round the end of the during the war . |
| 25 | Designed by Matthew Holmes , 168 of the 18 inch goods locomotives of N.B.R. class ‘ C ’ ( later LNER class J-36 ) were built between 1888 and 1900 , with 25 of them serving with the Railway Operating Division in France . |
| 26 | ‘ The piste is like this , ’ said one of them kicking at the sand . |
| 27 | This evening I visited Scouse 's latrine , the mosquitoes and all the flies were having a fieldday ; there were clouds of them hanging over the latrine in the still evening air . |
| 28 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 29 | There are 200 species of primate , 90 per cent of them living in the tropical rainforests of Asia , Africa and South and Central America . |
| 30 | On the positive side , fluoridation continues to provide substantial benefits for the dental health of six million people , many of them living in the west midlands and the north east of England . |