Example sentences of "of [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | The herring gull has only a small chance of grabbing a nestling in the face of such opposition , and no chance whatever of sneaking up on an unguarded chick unnoticed by adults . |
| 9 | Looking further into the future the railway still cherishes the hope of building back to a British Railway connection at Ruabon on the Chester-Shrewsbury line . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The male can maintain a fairly equable distribution of grooming up to a harem size of five females . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He looked across the table at Meryl , who was giving a good impression of hanging on to every word Lee said . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 28 | Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot . |
| 29 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 30 | 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 . |