Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud . |
| 2 | Erm all I 'm sure about is that there was this change going on in the rurar econ |
| 3 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |
| 4 | Yeah , music we 've normally got some noise going on in the background . |
| 5 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 6 | just added it up and sort of like if you take twenty , if you take an hour as being seven days , erm , twe , twe , twenty one hours , and what have you got the total there , three , eight , eleven , eleven and a half hours selling out of the whole of that , actual selling on your B M S , well they 'll give the things that we both disagree are important , and then you do get chance to do the selling what we 're predominately ; |
| 7 | There were some steps going down to the foreshore near a riverside pub . |
| 8 | Mr Grey 's enthusiasm and energy for the entrepreneurial challenge was contagious , but one could nevertheless feel a good few heels digging in among the bookselling purists at the idea of running a hairdresser . |
| 9 | Moore 's the guilty player Jochim had got away from him and unless the referee decides that there was another defender coming round on the cover there Moores could be in big trouble . |
| 10 | All this light spilling on to the driveway , it just was n't like him . |
| 11 | ‘ Though I 've got to tell you there 's some gossip going around about the cousin you 've got staying . ’ |
| 12 | Should be a few goals going in at the Baseball Ground on Sunday … the central live match is Derby County against Oxford United … |
| 13 | Once dolphins locate a school of fish , they spread out , some individuals diving down to the school of prey to herd it to the surface by swimming around and under the fish in an ever-tightening formation . |
| 14 | Over the next few years leading up to the 1995 World Cup there 'll be plenty of time to slot in replacements as they are needed — particularly to the front-five where Jason Leonard will probably be the only one available for the next tournament . |
| 15 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 16 | ‘ One thing 's sure — you wo n't be spending part of this evening mopping up in the kitchen ! ’ |
| 17 | And there 'll be a few showers coming along in the afternoon and there 'll be plenty of sunshine about and it should feel reasonably pleasant with temperatures around nine Celsius , forty eight Fahrenheit . |
| 18 | As newspapers claimed the princess was undertaking the visit against her will , a Palace spokesman said : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment by making any comment . ’ |
| 19 | Palace spokesmen continually insisted : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment . ’ |
| 20 | At the end of this wall leading off to the left was another passage to the downstairs lobby and the stairway to the first floor . |
| 21 | Yeah , I saw , I passed him this morning going down to the garage with some wood |
| 22 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |
| 23 | Alright now I just wonder if it might be worthwhile just some people going back to the classroom now or some stay or ? |
| 24 | I could also see the spire of the Church of Scotland in Porteneil , and some smoke coming up from the town chimneys . |
| 25 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
| 26 | As they walked away Scarlet observed another woman bearing down on the many-coated one with the air of a person about to commit good works . |
| 27 | So I do n't think there will be a big national impact , it 'll just be the last few people coming in at the tail end . |
| 28 | There a few items lying around on the battlements for the adventurers to find : old arrows and rusty arrowheads , a bucketful of congealed pitch , a bunch of rotten torches tied up with twine , a rotted length of rope and the like . |
| 29 | There are still some repairs going on along the M forty between junctions one and one A , that 's between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions , for barrier repairs and some light maintenance . |
| 30 | If you 've got some dust floating round in the nothing you would see specks of dust . |