Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them . |
| 2 | Some bastard cheated , they say there was not enough binding put around the joins , again the pipe leaks . |
| 3 | We also get requests from work from the organisational review working party , which is a working party that 's erm basically looking to progress to the D M D , Decentralization of Microtization initiative . |
| 4 | They 'd been designing tube amps for decades , and manufacturing them on site , whereas other companies were perhaps wanting to get into the tube amp market from scratch . |
| 5 | He was only pretending to go into the woods ? |
| 6 | A lot of the best-looking Waafs on the station had acquired Australian boyfriends , and two of the Met girls had recently married them and were impatiently waiting to get on the ship for Aussie-land to join their husbands . |
| 7 | You do , you got , Lee the other night , it 's like Lee last Monday , went on the work experience and Monday night it all came down it 's pouring , oh it 's alright he says , were only going to go to the Woking |
| 8 | The development of the Group was obviously going to depend upon the capacity of management to monitor current , not historical , trends . |
| 9 | So having diffused to the endoplasmic reticulum it can gate open the calcium channel , and this leads to an elevation of internal calcium , not from the external medium now , but from internal stores . |
| 10 | So having looked at the relationship between business and the voluntary sector today , let's take a brief look at the future . |
| 11 | Paige strove for rationality in a world that was suddenly threatening to dissolve at the seduction of touch and tone . |
| 12 | It was bad enough having to sleep in the steerage — lying on the floor wherever she could find a place , where cockroaches and rats could run over her while she slept . |
| 13 | It is fair to say that this view is controversial : certainly Grinsell remains strictly factual , but the Bords support this explanation and in so doing follow in the footsteps of John Michell , Tony Wedd , and earlier writers of the 1930s . |
| 14 | The significance is that , together , the two operated to remove an essential feature from the full description of Co-operation ; and in so doing to deny to the movement that function which it was uniquely able to discharge and which was , therefore , most likely to guarantee its growth and survival in perpetuity . |
| 15 | Prima facie their intention was to immobilise the ship and in so doing to interfere with the performance by the owners of their contract or contracts of carriage . ’ |
| 16 | What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now ? |
| 17 | All loudspeaker drive units have an impedance characteristic which varies with frequency , thus normally presenting the amplifier with a complex load whose characteristics are constantly varying according to the music signal . |
| 18 | To be honest I never get much washing done during the winter months . |
| 19 | ‘ I know we had to share a bed , thanks to your lies , ’ she corrected , valiantly trying to stave off the dreaded interrogation . |
| 20 | Thank you , yes they should be but stand up and I 'm only trying to help in the situation . |
| 21 | The commune attempts to enact its own solidarity through rituals ( group sex , baseball , potlatch , etc. ) , apparently trying to stave off the threats of such hostile outside forces as truckers and bikers . |
| 22 | He was getting a bead on a fish literally trying to run across the surface of the water to his left . |
| 23 | By a quirk of human nature most right-handed pilots want to turn left ( it 's all in the mind ) , while your clockwise-rotating , forward-flying helicopter is still stubbornly trying to yaw to the right ( Fig. 5.11 ) . |
| 24 | He lost no opportunity to use his status as an ideological lever for black causes , eventually refusing to serve in the army on the grounds that blacks had no interest in the Vietnam War . |
| 25 | Pampers are already helping to care for the environment , and now we have some important news for the future . |
| 26 | The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave . |
| 27 | Some customers — including small businesses and homeowners already struggling to survive throughout the recession — are paying 10 per cent or more , even though bank rates have hit seven per cent . |
| 28 | By the time they walk down the street , just happening to bump into the gang of boys , they have got it all worked out . |
| 29 | The inequality of the partners was already becoming attenuated during the early centuries of our era , and there are widespread symptoms to suggest the emergence of a notion of the married couple as a partnership of equals . |
| 30 | The son of a Jat farmer outside Delhi , by the age of thirteen she was already refusing to work in the fields , saying that she felt more like a woman than a man . |