Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [v-ing] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One dead soldier was in a sitting position , his back against a wall , his head leaning backwards with the eyes staring and mouth hanging open , his blonde hair matted and covered with blood . |
| 2 | Then in that well-known Jewish intonation , with the words rising and lowering , and drawn out for full emphasis , he continued : ‘ If I vas a younger man I vould trow my visky at you , b-u-t dat vould be a vaste of good visky . |
| 3 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 4 | On September 21 , 1945 , he wrote to the defendants saying that rent must be paid at the full rate and claiming that arrears amounting to £7,916 were due . |
| 5 | Think of the feet lengthening and widening ( for collapsed arches ) . |
| 6 | Clause 8 of the trust deed provides that ‘ the religious instruction and religious worship shall be in accordance with the tenets teaching and practice of the Roman Catholic Church . ’ |
| 7 | Christopher Tucker shouted into the kitchens asking if animals were killed on the premises . |
| 8 | He was never good enough to make the team , but he was always there on the sidelines cheering and managing . |
| 9 | Much of its early growth came from jute replacement in carpet backing and from the replacement of wood in the materials handling and furniture sectors . |
| 10 | Mr Roh and his alliance of squabbling factions are worried by stories in the newspapers hinting that officials in the government 's security organisations are jockeying for power . |
| 11 | Journalists published last week a copy of an affidavit made to the police saying that Mrs Mandela had put a 20,000 rand ( £4,000 ) ‘ contract ’ on the life of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat , shot dead in his surgery on January 27 , 1989 . |
| 12 | You might have assumed this was the police bluffing and bullying . |
| 13 | Think of the hands lengthening and widening ( for arthritis ) . |
| 14 | But for the Formalists meaning and ideas are neither here nor there ; like reality , they enter into literature as part of the available material which is then put to literary use by the functional devices of the work . |
| 15 | So he started work in the office and showroom , a long narrow room on the first floor with windows that looked out onto the street , with shelves filled with lines of business machines , computers , word processors , the screens flickering as Lewis , Barnett 's other assistant , experimented with them . |
| 16 | He then moved out of Paris and lived in villages near the river Seine to the west of Paris — Louveciennes , Marly-le-Roi , and Sèvres — but in 1880 he returned to the area south-east of the forest of Fontainebleau , where he had first painted during the 1860s , and lived in a series of villages near the confluence of the rivers Loing and Seine — Veneux-Nadon , Les Sablons , and Moret-sur-Loing . |
| 17 | But even as she said this , as Lewis , rather dramatically , told her , the Standard was on the streets announcing that police were treating the case as murder . |
| 18 | Teams of workers made their way through the streets ensuring that properties were safe to re-enter . |