Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [v-ing] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the second games started , Merton would move , striding like a supermarket trolley attendant into the ring and ignoring all the ‘ rules ’ of improvisational comedy that the other clever-clever types had been carefully developing for the previous few years . |
| 2 | Habitats , there 's enough bloody habitats up and down flowers growing out , I said well I said what 's to stop me from taking a bloody plough and ploughing all the bloody flowers up |
| 3 | This has been done in a similar fashion to Martin 's approach , where the fret ends are chopped off square and then individually rounded , rather than by running a fret file down the sides of the neck and lopping all the ends off at a 45 degree angle . |
| 4 | Everyone at every level was involved and it all went without any major problems : great teamwork , 24-hours-a-day , seven days a week for five weeks , commissioning kit , painting , erecting racking and shifting all the ancillary equipment . |
| 5 | ’ We wrote the single after moving into a little village and seeing all the people driving to their office jobs and we thought we 'd have a go at them ’ |
| 6 | Erm but yes , lots of people from the flats , either taking part in terms of sitting on the committee and doing all the planning and getting all the various permissions that you needed to do all sorts of things . |
| 7 | I think Mr. Mendez wanted to get him on his way before he had time to change his mind ; before he spent another night staring at the ceiling and counting all the reasons why he should n't go to Contention . |
| 8 | With BCM delegates reserving their position , the remaining delegates adopted the Harare declaration and further resolved to call for a ‘ constituent assembly , established on a non-racial basis and representing all the people of South Africa , to draw up a new constitution for our country ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ What are you doing in the dark , dearest ? ’ she said , swinging into the room and switching all the lights on . |
| 10 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 11 | When good husbandry or storage techniques fail then it may become necessary to carry out control measures by the installation of appropriate additional equipment , the choice of equipment/control method being decided only after seeking advice and taking all the circumstances into account . |
| 12 | If your garment is to be knitted on the main bed only , then after knitting the welt and transferring all the stitches to the main bed , you must remove the ribber comb and weights , cover the ribber and place the knitting outside the ribber . |
| 13 | Why , I would n't have a moment 's peace on a Sunday , what with tinkering all morning and driving all the rest of the day . ’ |
| 14 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 15 | Erm but yes , lots of people from the flats , either taking part in terms of sitting on the committee and doing all the planning and getting all the various permissions that you needed to do all sorts of things . |
| 16 | But the challenge we face is the task of linking these immediate local concerns together across the international division of labour , transcending national boundaries , turning our back on the state and using all the means at our disposal to build a radical , democratic movement of civil society . |
| 17 | A Mathematics class working through sums with half the children in a state of total incomprehension and getting all the examples wrong , while others spend fruitless time doing sum after sum on a process which they had mastered weeks previously ; |
| 18 | It will be coercion and bullying all the way . |
| 19 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 20 | I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe . |
| 21 | What she did n't bargain on was you whisking her off to the country and locking all the doors . |
| 22 | Completing the card Liverpool light-welter Charlie Paine made a winning professional debut , beating Del Panayiotiou ( Swansea ) over six rounds by a decisive 60–57 , doing all the chasing and producing all the best right hand work . |
| 23 | After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers . |
| 24 | Walter did not use individual checks for each note , but a continuous batten , triangular in cross section , mounted on the raised sides of the keyframe and serving all the hammers ( illus.8 ) . |
| 25 | Once every six months it may be worth considering removing all the stock to another tank and syphoning all the coral sand out , cleaning it with mature tank water and returning it . |
| 26 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 27 | The forward pass through the network consists of repeating this procedure by adding the job time to the early start time and making this the early start time of the next job in sequence if no other preceding job has a later early finish . |
| 28 | The forward pass through the network consists of repeating this procedure by adding the job time to the early start time and making this the early start time of the next job in sequence if no other preceding job has a later early finish . |