Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 3 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 4 | However , just before it died , there was what looked like a length of white cotton thread hanging from the anal vent . |
| 5 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 6 | Israel will have to trim its army because of a £320-million deficit stemming from the Palestinian uprising , a military source said yesterday in Jerusalem . |
| 7 | Thus on the DEC PDP-8 computer , there is a 3-bit operation code field ; if the operation code is 7 , then the " operate " instruction group is indicated , and a particular function is specified by a sub-operation field consisting of the remaining nine bits ( of the 12-bit word ) . |
| 8 | She could see him vaguely now , white shirt gleaming in the pale moonlight . |
| 9 | I was fascinated by the droplets of saliva sticking to the coarse stubby brown hair surrounding his mouth , and he had to repeat his request for my shopping list . |
| 10 | The ad shows a crook gazing at the busty , mini-skirted girls and asks : ‘ Who 's giving your bag the eye ? ’ |
| 11 | How stable is a system where the amounts of money whizzing around the foreign exchanges in search of a quick fix are 50 times more than the total needed to finance the whole of world trade ? |
| 12 | For example , an ex gratia payment is not automatically treated as meeting any liability stemming from the basic award . |
| 13 | CD 's second novel , written for serialization in Richard Bentley 's monthly magazine , Bentley 's Miscellany , of which CD was the first editor , the first instalment appearing in the second issue of Feb. 1837 . |
| 14 | ‘ There is a demand for chartered accountants with corporate tax experience relating to the financial sector . |
| 15 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 16 | Although polarization may include an element of newcomers-versus-locals , it is based essentially on social class , with the division occurring between the working class and the middle class . |
| 17 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ agreed Isabel , her sudden hope dying as the inevitable consequences of this course of action sprang to mind . |
| 19 | Note also an error in the text relating to the last set of transactions which should relate to l months 8 to 12 , not 6 to 12 as shown in the text . |
| 20 | Orkney Islands Council , too , tried to prevent the story appearing in the following day 's edition . |
| 21 | Rohmer looked to the storm blasting through the blown-out window . |
| 22 | International organisations , though on a bread-and-butter level becoming from the 1860s rapidly more important and active , were still very much on the fringes of conventional diplomacy . |
| 23 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 24 | He had thought of Doreen 's absences every night , the front-door banging in the early hours of the morning , the whine of a car drawing away from beneath his window . |
| 25 | The practitioner travels in all directions , executing various movements , with the final technique ending at the very point where he began . |
| 26 | The Italians keep a second striker lurking behind the first . |
| 27 | Every case appearing in the national press is likely to appear in some local newspaper . |
| 28 | Yoma 's former husband Ibrahim al Ibrahim , appointed by Menem as Chief of Customs at Buenos Aires international airport , along with a former government official , Mario Caserta , had also been accused of drug laundering in the same report . |
| 29 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 30 | Emily Grenfell clasped her hands together , sitting on the edge of her seat gazing through the small window of the coach as it rumbled along Mumbles Road in the fashionable area of Swansea . |