Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We carefully watched the flame of the hour candle eating away the wax from ring to ring . |
| 2 | I assume it 's a piss-take of the scum song of the same tune about the welsh git running down the wing ( football field wing that is and nothing whatsoever to do with aircraft ) . |
| 3 | Water pouring through into the kitchen water pouring down the electric wire of the lamp in the study ! |
| 4 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 5 | There are tantalising descriptions of buildings now demolished — ‘ a wonderful high ceiling in the banking hall going up the equivalent of two storeys ’ — plus accounts of lunchtimes and commuting . |
| 6 | It is the fight choreographer working out the moves for Leonard 's struggle to the death with Otto . |
| 7 | Hang the door within the aluminium frame using only the two outer screws in each hinge . |
| 8 | Now she stood looking out of her bedroom window , feeling lonely in spite of the car headlights crawling up the avenue of tall cypresses towards the villa 's ornate façade and the first arrivals climbing the twin stone staircases to the central entrance . |
| 9 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 10 | The bay to his left was labelled ‘ Fiction A-H ’ , and to his right was the cash desk looking much the same as it must have done on the day the shop was first opened . |
| 11 | The charge code specifying where the created packages will be stored by LIFESPAN . |
| 12 | The claimant 's letter of appeal will be included and there will be a full written submission by the adjudication officer setting out the facts and law as they have been determined and applied to the claimant 's case . |
| 13 | Once this is done the two can revert to their traditional roles , the writer supplying the copy and the art director suggesting how the visual can help it sell . |
| 14 | In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company . |
| 15 | In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company . |
| 16 | Not , says UI , to kowtow to any kind of preconditions SunSoft wants UI to meet for the firm to close on the desktop issue , but simply that USL does n't have resources to do all the development work coming down the line . |
| 17 | It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen . |
| 18 | In the fall of 1978 , while the Shah 's power was draining away from him in Teheran and riots against his rule dominated the US television news , Sadat was closeted with Menahcem Begin and Jimmy Carter in the Maryland hills working out the interstices of what became known as the Camp David Agreement . |
| 19 | Its awe-inspiring interior space was to an extent destroyed by the exhibition display demonstrating how the urge to discover and explore had been expressed throughout the ages . |
| 20 | Sighing , Rain remembered the story of the gas board digging up the cable at Spinney Green . |
| 21 | Along the northern bank of the firth lies the fertile Carse of Gowrie , the word carse meaning much the same as haugh — a stretch of alluvial levels beside a river . |
| 22 | The warning notices pointing out the danger of bullets are not altogether a bluff . |
| 23 | Originally this type of system had the soil stack running down the outside of the house ( as with two-pipe systems ) ; in many houses built since 1976 , the soil stack has been placed inside the house structure . |
| 24 | If a Thursday coincided with a Saints Day , we were rewarded by being able to go across to Mrs. Robbins ' after the service and order a pennyworth of sweets apiece — the Hospital trustees picking up the bill . |
| 25 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 26 | On the formation of county councils in 1888 the administrative functions of Quarter Sessions passed to the county councils leaving only the judicial functions of Quarter Sessions to the Justices . |
| 27 | Sensational wins over world No 2 Chris Dittmar and No 3 Rodney Martin in the past three weeks , plus victory over six-times world champion Jahangir Khan in the World Championships , have propelled the Nottingham 21-year-old soaring up the world rankings to No 7 . |
| 28 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 29 | A signal occasion … the steam train turning back the clock . |
| 30 | From my orchard , I could see the steam trains running down the coast to Gaza . |