Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 32 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 33 | Yesterday Darlington 's Liberal Democrat and Conservative candidates visited the school to meet the teenagers who will be representing them in the school election on April 3 . |
| 34 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 35 | But the burden of satisfying private sector returns on loans and investments will fall upon tenants , through increasing rental levels risking the exclusion of those most in need of social housing provision or at least further enmeshing them in the poverty trap . |
| 36 | Terry Dicks , not so well known , was crushing beer cans and tossing them in the direction of France . |
| 37 | Everyone remarks on how aggressive it now is , and it seems Down Under , Hewlett-Packard Co made its point about its new mainframe-killing Emerald servers by launching them in the Fossil Gallery of the Australian Museum , carefully labelling the dinosaur skeletons with jibes at IBM Corp , Hitachi Ltd , Fujitsu Ltd , Amdahl Corp and Digital Equipment Corp : legends such as ‘ ES/9000 — a large body and a small brain led this animal to become extinct ’ . |
| 38 | A further consequence of commercialism is the pressure for management to legitimate politically determined goals by clothing them in the language of managerial decision-making . |
| 39 | By separating the glycerides from more readily available fats and assembling them in the required proportions it was possible to match the physical properties of cocoa butter . |
| 40 | ‘ Winning the Ulster final of the Barton Shield against Warrenpoint was a bit of a fairytale , after defeating them in the final of the Senior Cup ! |
| 41 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 42 | Around and About : keeping you in the know |
| 43 | Keeping you in the news |
| 44 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 45 | By continually sharing speaking and listening — if you are trying to convey something , it is very distracting if the receiver keeps interrupting you in the middle of a sentence . |
| 46 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 47 | She liked Robert Urquhart and was attracted to him , even trusted him , unlike Spittals who was no doubt gleefully stabbing her in the back at that moment . |
| 48 | It is his letter of March 1094 to the bishop of Salisbury , instructing him in the name of himself and the king to take action about the case of the daughter of the king of Scotland , who had left the nunnery at Wilton and who — as Anselm and King William had agreed — was to be forced to return . |
| 49 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 50 | With a shriek of delight she threw herself at Maggie , enveloping her in the warmest of embraces . |
| 51 | He assisted Marsh up the steps to the box and , seating him in the signalman 's battered but comfortable old armchair , reported the incident to the train control , requesting medical assistance for the unfortunate guard who was obviously unable to continue his dunes . |
| 52 | But he let her go , only cradling her in the circle of his arm . |
| 53 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 54 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 55 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 56 | While she was trying to do this , he went to the apartment and beat her , wounding her in the head for which she was treated at hospital . |
| 57 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |
| 58 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 59 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 60 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |