Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 2 | Problem is , take one too many and you 'll start to see hair growing out of the walls . |
| 3 | er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined |
| 4 | DERYCK FOX helped himself to 13 points with a try , four goals and a drop goal to take the man of the match award and send Widnes crashing out of the Regal Trophy . |
| 5 | These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to . |
| 6 | Then , set against the incredibly complicated French and Indian Wars , the actual story has Hawkeye falling in with the Brits as he falls for the daughter ( Stowe ) of a Scots officer . |
| 7 | Benedict watched him go and then turned to find Theda leaning back against the mantel , white to the lips , one hand at her bosom . |
| 8 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 9 | Should gusts of wind send smoke billowing back into the room , you 'll have to fit a special cowl on top of the chimney , or some type of anti-back-draught chimney pot . |
| 10 | She started to get up but he said , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and hurried out of the bar , running with his body crouched and his right hand holding the newspaper low down , like a soldier carrying a slung rifle running in to the attack . |
| 11 | When Morton came in , a few minutes later , he found Bragg staring out of the window , his dead pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 12 | It has records going back to the reign of Henry II in about 1165 . |
| 13 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 14 | In a gallery of stalactites , baobab roots seeking water winding down from the roof , we asked Sapan what the island was called . |
| 15 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 16 | He noticed figures coming out of the barn , walking slowly and painfully to their homes . |
| 17 | ‘ I said I 'd seen Sam hanging about on the towpath with a bunch of yobs . ’ |
| 18 | And seen gillies going out for the Stenness Hotel s with sailing boats , I 've seen eight leaving there in the morning I went to school . |
| 19 | Robert had the strong impression that they viewed unwanted spectators in the same spirit in which the ancient Greeks received people barging in on the Eleusinian mysteries . |
| 20 | I have demonstrated clearly how we will bring Government borrowing down in the years ahead . |
| 21 | EPRDF forces moving in from the west began to reach the suburbs of Addis Ababa on the weekend of May 25-26 . |
| 22 | I 've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me . |
| 23 | The structure appeared to have been built into the air , with scaffolding and support systems running up towards the sky . |
| 24 | is the straightforward transaction reflecting cash flowing out of the authority ( assuming it is external loan repayment ) to repay loans . |
| 25 | As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground . |
| 26 | I say ‘ by great good luck ’ , because the Turkish authorities do not like foreigners wandering about in the neighbourhood of frontiers , particularly the Russian frontier . |
| 27 | Even now as he stood there by the kitchen table he could see Caspar closing in on the weaker lamb , and he could hear that weird and terrible wailing of Lee 's . |
| 28 | Sometimes Buddie stacked trays of eggs above the pipes to incubate , and after a few days there would be dozens of fluffy , chirruping chicks hatching out in the heat . |
| 29 | We watch Lucker rooting around in the car . |
| 30 | She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins . |