Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he spoke I could hear the rush of shells passing over heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 2 | Sorting went on day and night for a fortnight , and indeed beyond , for books kept on coming till the last moment of the sale . |
| 3 | In a letter to the residents association , the company says : ‘ Following the problem , our inspectors carried out flushing of the water mains , which helped to alleviate the problem . |
| 4 | At 8am a convoy of vans and unmarked police cars swept out heading for the addresses . |
| 5 | Although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 6 | Still , although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 7 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
| 8 | Fists went on hammering on the door . |
| 9 | The professionals sat around waiting for the gentlemen to return before the match was called off . |
| 10 | When these same hands gave up playing under the onslaught of feline affection , the cat would wander off , but if they then began to play again , the cat immediately dashed back and resumed its licking . |
| 11 | All too often husbands actually prevented their wives from coming to the picket line and there were cases where parents-in-law forced women to go on working for the sort of reasons described in Chapter 6 . |
| 12 | With the dropping of 11 days , the old March 25 became April 5 , and tax collectors went on working from the old day with its new date . |
| 13 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 14 | Despite the piece of paper he was waving this week , committing nine of the 15 republics to keep on talking about the preservation of the union , he has lost the confidence of much of the Communist Party he leads and of the parliament that elected him president . |
| 15 | Opposition members tried to persuade the ruling Tories to push up spending to the Government-imposed limit and put extra cash towards economic development and jobs . |