Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter stood swaying drunkenly before him . |
| 2 | Down in the basement , what is effectively a small warehouse holds and dispatches all RSGB publications and other radio books purchased by mail order , with the income earned providing a useful supplement to the Society 's funds . |
| 3 | The majority favoured raising the age to fifteen except among those entering a skilled trade ; the minority recommended part-time education to continue to age eighteen . |
| 4 | For many , the very phrase risk management may have been a switch off even before the experts started whipping up the campaign with the emphasis on the disaster scenario — terrorist bombings , sinking oil tankers , fraud , kidnap and computer fires . |
| 5 | Half of these mothers said they smacked only in anger ; the remainder used smacking deliberately as a disciplinary technique . |
| 6 | ‘ We would n't want that , ’ he said smoothly , and for a moment the shield came crashing back down , because his eyes wanted exactly that . |
| 7 | Despite ominous clouds hanging over the Malvern Hills , the crowds began arriving early at the Three Counties Showground.The Spring Gardening Show has become the regional equivalent of the Chelsea event . |
| 8 | Despite this , the crowds kept coming to Leeds Road , drawn by the success Chapman had brought to the side . |
| 9 | So the seamen stopped fighting and we took their guns . |
| 10 | Both the Ramseys loved living in Auckland Castle , a historic pile eminent in the history of England and of the Church , with magnificent memorials of celebrated prelates of past centuries . |
| 11 | The JNA began pulling out of Macedonia on Feb. 2 and agreements were reached with the JNA on leaving equipment behind , the withdrawal to be completed by April 15 . |
| 12 | When the milk began coming again he hoped the aberration was over . |
| 13 | The transmitter should now be operated and the l.e.d. held pointing downwards approximately 10cm away from the top of the phototransistor on the receiver unit . |
| 14 | One of the first attempts to treat the effluent involved building a small lagoon , the idea for which Dai discovered in a book . |
| 15 | And the money needed renewing : the numismatic proof of the debased state of the currency at this point has already been mentioned . |
| 16 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 17 | The League drew up a scale of reductions whereby players on £5 a week ( the maximum ) took a 15 per cent cut and these on £3–4 a 5 per cent cut , the money saved going into a fund to help clubs in financial straits . |
| 18 | The Dodger and Charley Bates roared with laughter , and the Dodger began looking through the books Oliver had with him . |
| 19 | The case made harrowing reading , but far worse was the account of how passers-by behaved . |
| 20 | Two men escaped with his case but a security device activated and it was later abandoned , as was the same Allegro car after the case began emitting red dye . |
| 21 | If the damage occurred following a specific storm , the Policyholder should be asked : |
| 22 | and the reds went marching on … |
| 23 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 24 | We have the design engineering skills — and the computer aided drawing resources — to produce the optimum configurations for any size and shape of roof . |
| 25 | quack , quack , quack , quack all the ducks came swimming back |
| 26 | He dived under the fence and a moment later the ducks began waddling through the tunnel and into the garden . |
| 27 | The ducks began quacking and the frogs croaking . |
| 28 | The snake stopped moving . |
| 29 | When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot . |
| 30 | Before long Foujita and Fernande returned to Paris , and after August 1918 , the Germans stopped shelling the city . |