Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many reasons , apart from the trading of favours , for a legislator or bureau-crat going along with the wishes of the man in the White House . |
| 2 | However , a good deal of discretion is left in the hands of the Area Director to determine the merits of the application , having considered ‘ … all questions of fact or law arising out of the action , cause or matter to which the application relates and the circumstances in which it was made . ’ |
| 3 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 4 | A spade or fork should always be hung up with tines or blade curving in towards the support . |
| 5 | To return to the shareholder example , having raised the point that it is in shareholders ' interests to ensure their returns are reasonable , it logically follows that there will be an incentive for them to spend a certain amount of time and money finding out about the firm 's activities and performance . |
| 6 | If she had thought of it , she would have looked before : she had registered the reporter and photographer going up to the flat above , and had said to herself that they did n't , very obviously , have the class of the young men from the London Sundays . |
| 7 | There was mass saluting , mass mumbling and mass pouring out of the door . |
| 8 | Taking a deep swallow of the wine , she glanced away , watching a large rigged sailboat as it glided by , packed with holidaymakers , distant strains of steel band music and laughter drifting over on the wind . |
| 9 | Add to this a language problem , surround the ship with smaller fishing vessels and throw liberal quantities of slimy mackerel underfoot , anchor it in a remote Scottish loch with vicious squalls of wind and rain roaring down from the surrounding hills , try working for days on end with very little sleep in these conditions and you have some idea of our difficulties . |
| 10 | But if you had an imminent on your side you could have had the ache of the wind and rain crying down from the clouds . ’ |
| 11 | Essentially the string galvanometer consisted of a coil of copper wire , connected at either end to two electrodes , and string hanging down within the coil to which was attached a small magnetized mirror . |
| 12 | The dusty cart-track had become a lawn ; the village houses had given way to straight , symmetrical lines of bottle-palms ; in the borders the lilies and irises were in full bloom — wonderful swathes of azure and magenta leading on into the char-bagh . |
| 13 | Pamela sipped her Tequila Sunrise , glorying in its garish colour , more sunset than sunrise , with its mountain of fruit and umbrella sticking out of the top . |
| 14 | Marie followed the bus route to where she had seen Simon with his mother and father coming out of the private estate in their car . |
| 15 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 16 | Fran had n't expected to sleep , but she did , deeply and dreamlessly , and awoke to the sound of birds singing and sunlight streaming in through the window . |
| 17 | Courses have been run continually since 1812 in this part of the Academy , and with its impressive frontage , parade square and greensward leading down to the lake , it dominates the grounds . |
| 18 | 200 students paid 2 pounds each to hear the Foreign Secretary talk about what he calls the soul searching and introspection going on around the world . |
| 19 | Whole rooms of the Turk 's Head were taken over by bits of fairground waiting for the revival that would send Uncle Titch and Grandad chortling off to the local branch of the Co-op . |
| 20 | ‘ Then I saw a leg and arm sticking out of the side and realised Stuart was underneath it . |
| 21 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |