Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and my Lord er in relation to this judgment er you 've got the courts setting out the principal at page er one stroke five , forty , paragraph fourteen of the judgment that 's the principal of suspension and it 's then got it 's conditions for suspension on the next page , paragraph twenty two |
| 2 | It was all too much , waiting for that upstart Hitler to make up his mind ; to envisage the Germans strutting down the Mall as they 'd strutted down the Champs Élysées . |
| 3 | His horse , a black stallion of large breadth , reared and stamped , the hooves striking down the gate . |
| 4 | Well it 's just the thing to keep the operators going on the night shift . |
| 5 | 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase . |
| 6 | O. J. Braddick ( personal communication ) has pointed out that unlike monocular perspective cues , the differential perspective cues described here could be exploited without the need to make assumptions about the homogeneity or isotropy of the elements making up the surface . |
| 7 | The failure of ecological aspects of small mammal faunas to predict predator species leads to the consideration of modifications to the bones making up the faunal assemblage . |
| 8 | In addition , the stewards handing out the hymn books require alerting and training in their responsibility in making the visitor welcome . |
| 9 | They eat a tremendous amount in the weeks running up the race and she cooks everything fresh . |
| 10 | You may not need as much as that , but erm Bacteria , nitrates in the soil and the plants taking up the nitrates some of the plants . |
| 11 | Whatever happened to all the heroes calling all the heroes shooting up the town boys |
| 12 | Calling all the heroes shooting up the town boys . |
| 13 | It certainly rained a great deal in Nuku'alofa , the gales whipping up the surf into clouds of spume and sending broken branches spinning through the air . |
| 14 | Thus intravalence excitation and valence-electron ionization transitions contain information characteristic of molecules , whereas core-electron ionizations relate to the atoms making up the molecules . |
| 15 | They saw the camp-fires lighting up the winter dusk well before they reached the Hoddom area , near where the Water of Milk joined Annan , which meant , of course , that the enemy ahead presumably would be apt to see them also ; but it was practically impossible to hide the presence of a major army anyway . |
| 16 | Its history was revealed in the sections cut by the machines hacking out the sphagnum peat to be packed in bags and sold because people are conditioned to prefer heathers in gardens to those in their natural habitat . |
| 17 | At least the rain keeps the mosquitoes away , and the flashes from the guns lighting up the sky appear somewhat comforting as I doze off , conscious of the rain dripping on to my boots . |
| 18 | With luck I may be able to sleep tonight , without dreaming , without lying awake in sweating fear , listening to the sounds creeping up the house . |
| 19 | The regulations setting out the procedure whereby a soldier in the British Army can apply for conscientious objector status are classified as a ‘ restricted ’ document — to which only army officers have access . |
| 20 | In the following sections the components , structure , and tendencies involved with the firms making up the holiday industry are analysed ; and recent competitive battles are reviewed . |
| 21 | erm And the cultivators coming down the logging roads , I agree entirely . |
| 22 | The kitchen was scented with the rich enticing smell of spices and dried fruits , and Alexandra met Lyddy on the stairs carrying down the cream silk evening gown to be pressed . |
| 23 | At harvest services when the church was crowded and extra seats were needed the stewards simply borrowed what chairs they could get form the neighbours living down the White Row in Carrickblacker Road . |
| 24 | For a moment Masklin thought the nome was laughing , and then he saw the tears rolling down the Abbot 's face . |
| 25 | The girls bringing in the parcel could dress up like the bridegroom-to-be , taking his work or hobby as the theme , or like any male characters such as footballers , policemen or policewomen wearing sunglasses , gorillas with cigars , city gents in bowler hats , or a spoof pop group of boys in short trousers and caps singing , ‘ Will you still need me when I 'm sixty-four ? ’ . |
| 26 | Bowled over … the girls taking on the boys at their own game . |
| 27 | Fran watched the raindrops running down the glass panes , wishing foolishly that the sun had been shining again as a sort of omen . |
| 28 | She 'd seen him earlier , talking to one of the men setting up the car ramps on the far side of the field . |
| 29 | They may spend Saturday night together , and as often as not you see the men holding up the bar with their pints and the women sitting at the tables with their shorts . |
| 30 | After it 's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest . |