Example sentences of "of [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi arms dealer , is being tried with her , accused of helping out in the property deals .
2 At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt .
3 Saturday 's defeat of leaders Muckamore by Cregagh left Holywood with an excellent chance of catching up with the leaders , but on Sunday they conspired to lose all wickets for a mere when chasing Carrick 's total of 177 .
4 By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years .
5 ‘ Because he believed that Charles just is n't going to make it — and the sovereign 's relationship with her heir has always been difficult — Prince Philip urged her to assert that she had no intention of stepping down from the throne , that she must and will remain for the duration . ’
6 There was no question of easing off in the second half .
7 But there are more flexible ways of easing back into the job market .
8 Thinking that in years of spray-painting , of darting about near the police and taunting them with their nearness , they had been caught only when they wanted to be .
9 I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines .
10 Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels .
11 It 's pretty smoky — the trains give off this browny smoke and it do n't blow away — it just sort of drifts up to the roof .
12 It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up .
13 I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight .
14 Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings .
15 In present times the system is in danger of dying out in the Point district , as so many of the men and women have regular employment in town .
16 He had visions of booking in to the same hotel several weeks running and a knowing clerk saying , ‘ Ah , I see sir has a new Mrs Smith this weekend … ’ as his latest girl flashed her ring on the desk .
17 He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace .
18 Yes I think that must of come out in the roundabout there , it was n't in front before , erm , so I 'll do that yes , I 'll drop you off
19 Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called .
20 The onset of insolvency is the date of presentation of an administration petition or the date of commencement of winding up by the presentation of a winding up petition or a resolution by the company to go into liquidation .
21 Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot .
22 In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now .
23 He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed .
24 ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’
25 For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’
26 From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines .
27 The fact is that as a consequence of climbing out of the depression in the early 1980s , of remodelling our business processes , and of becoming a serious entrant into the high tech race , the work force profile has changed and will continue to change .
28 What really moved the men was the ignition of the class war , the excitement of climbing out of the trenches for the long march against the class enemy .
29 As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " .
30 Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission .
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