Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 2 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 3 | A more erudite musician — or courteous companion — you wo n't meet ; and I shall treasure for aye the memory of his sitting down at the grand piano in the front room of his Edinburgh town-house to demonstrate how two operations to his 95-year-old hands had not impaired his keyboard ability : what he then produced was some of the most sheerly beautiful bach playing I have ever heard . |
| 4 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
| 5 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 6 | The claim was made by the prosecution in its summing up at the trial of Lou Macari and Brian Hillier , who deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue . |
| 7 | Well , there had been neither the commanding tone nor the easy insolence from that couple ; and yet , in a way she knew her father was right in his summing up of the gentry . |
| 8 | In his summing up at the end of ‘ Prospect ’ , the Chief of Air Staff , Sir Dermot Boyle , publicly expressed the RAF 's opposition to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 9 | In his professed concern for Banquo 's welfare ( III.i.11–38 ) , as in his urging on of the murderers ( III.i.73–139 ) , Macbeth displayed some of his earlier resource in hypocrisy , although the scene with the murderers is laboured , I believe deliberately , to show how energy and invention are gradually deserting him . |