Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
| 2 | You can feel the G-force by just watching the cars roar up the famous Prescott Hill . |
| 3 | When moving dancers from two feet to one in both open and closed sissonnes , the choreographer can make the movements dart over the floor as Aurora does in her final solo in The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 4 | ‘ Still , ’ said Sam , ‘ they let the dossers pick up the ones they throw out . ’ |
| 5 | Without warning the air was split by a high pitched banshee wail , rising and falling on a sliding scale of pain that would have made the slates fall off the roof if there had been any . |
| 6 | But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ? |
| 7 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 8 | Under what circumstances may the doctors switch off the ventilator ? |
| 9 | Peach was sitting on the window sill , watching the raindrops run down the outside of the glass and trying to catch them with his paw . |
| 10 | Walking down Oxford Street in August , watching the tourists snap up the pirate editions of ‘ Frankie Says Arm The Unemployed ’ I decided this was the final triumph of the ‘ new pop ’ , the eclipse of content by form . |