Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [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 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot . |
| 19 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ! ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 28 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 29 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 30 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |