Example sentences of "the [noun] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Havis himself did most of the cockpit shots , and these are skilfully intercut into air-to-air shots of Concorde , including a beautiful head-on one ( used several times ) of the Great White Dart skimming the cloud-tops leaving a vortex of white in its high-speed wake . |
| 2 | With the defence ensuring a frustrating afternoon for the league 's leading scorer , Michelle Clark , the rest of the team were able to set up camp in the Wimbledon half . |
| 3 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 4 | ‘ I was in the stand munching a hot-dog when the boss called me down , ’ said Hoult . |
| 5 | Arm-in-arm with the day-conductress , she would walk the length of the train , watching the ice being tapped off the water inlets and the track-hoppers getting a warning from the new MCK engine elbowing its way backwards . |
| 6 | Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society . |
| 7 | But watch the Prince working a crowd and compare him with a politician in the same situation . |
| 8 | Also , do n't forget that DOL is potentially a good managerial prospect … maybe a Strach-DOL partnership … that 'll be interesting … ‘ heard the one about the Irishman & the Scotsman managing a footbal team … ’ : - ) |
| 9 | All these Swiss cheeses are made in wheels , the retailer buying a wedge-shaped cut of the required size . |
| 10 | In May 1987 with the club still in the first and the accounts showing a profit , Robert Maxwell , under fire for his involvement in other clubs like Watford and Derby County , handed chairmanship to his son Kevin . |
| 11 | No depreciation is provided on the freehold investment property and the directors consider that this accounting policy results in the accounts giving a true and fair view . |
| 12 | No depreciation is provided on the freehold investment property and the directors consider that this accounting policy results in the accounts giving a true and fair view . |
| 13 | The second time , travelling fast to find them , he 'd passed a junction just in time to see the VW rounding a bend on the other road . |
| 14 | Left it was ; left and more left , with the board veeing a jet of water on both sides and making a snarl of speed and stress and thrust . |
| 15 | A diaper design was then card-wired on to the shell using a template and a straight-edge . |
| 16 | What is termed the crossed interpretation , with each part of the sentence manifesting a different sense , is prohibited . |
| 17 | Second , if we accept that such adjectives , unlike predicate qualifiers , are genuinely equivalent to a modified clause in conjunction with the noun phrase which they follow , then it is entirely predictable that this construction will demand , as the preceding main verb , one which customarily supports a predication expressed in an explicit subordinate clause ; this will not , however , be demanded of the verb preceding a predicate qualifier . |
| 18 | The case was not concerned with a standard form contract but with a disclaimer on a surveyor 's report which purported to prevent the surveyors incurring a duty of care in tort . |
| 19 | The tops of ling heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) , produce yet another shade of yellow dye when boiled in water , and in fact that entire plant is wonderfully versatile : it was commonly used for thatching houses , and even today the few Highland thatchers that remain will swear it is the best thatch in Gaeldom ; it provided beds to sleep on , with the ‘ tops up and roots down ’ arrangement of the mattress assuring a pleasantly aromatic and sound sleep ; it was used in part of the process of tanning leather ; and the fresh , young tops of the heather were ( and at times still are ) brewed into a kind of ale . |
| 20 | Very soon this leads to an arcaded building on the left , the arcades forming a raised dais that is usually home to another flock of pigeons . |
| 21 | There is , of course , a substantial , and growing , body of precedents which may be used by the drafter preparing a set of standard terms . |
| 22 | . That 's just the things we do , with the coronary arteries , we do coronary artery by- passes , I can , I can sew like any woman , I can darn your socks , we stick the veins on and we re-establish the the heart going a bit faster . |
| 23 | He has spent the afternoon removing a uterus . |
| 24 | In Rome , an advert for a laundry reads : ‘ Ladies , leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time . ’ |
| 25 | That was the day in October 1957 that Ken spent the afternoon rehearsing a new routine . |
| 26 | I 'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him . |
| 27 | Maudsley wrote graphically of the dangers facing a fifteen-year-old girl working hard to pass school examinations : |
| 28 | It trembled uncomprehendingly over Harry Dunstaple running towards the ramparts waving a sabre and shouting orders , with the bulging pockets of his Tweedside lounging jacket swinging about his knees over Ford , carefully laying a train back to the wall of the churchyard from one of the fougasses that had been dug … over the Sikhs staggering here and there with loads of small stones to shovel into another fougasse not yet completed … over the green Fleury having a rest in the shade of a tamarind beside the Church wall … and finally over the pariah dog , looking towards Fleury with admiration but from a respectful distance ( for Fleury continued to reject its advances ) . |
| 29 | the complexity of the law enables them to discover loopholes and multiple meanings in the vague and often ambiguous wording of corporate law(s) — the pursuit of each interpretation is a further delay in the case reaching a conclusion ; |
| 30 | Opening the case containing a new guitar from Patrick Eggle is , for me , a trying experience . |