Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what he said , prophesying about the future , saying what would happen in the future in this case . |
| 2 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 3 | The concern of the authorities is that a dominant firm will price aggressively in those markets where it faces actual or potential competition with the intention of seeing off the competition . |
| 4 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 5 | Midst a lot of no-balls , which helped no end , they picked their way though the furious gunfire , finding the odd boundary , encouraging each other , and finally seeing off the follow-on a ball before tea . |
| 6 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 7 | While eating we watched a variety of cheeky small birds darting through the restaurant , picking up tasty crumbs of freshly baked bread and croissants or dipping their long narrow beaks around the lid of the sugar bowl when the waiters were n't looking . |
| 8 | So we are erm continuously forecasting for the Gas and Electricity Authorities . |
| 9 | And reducing the amount of time spent on figures enables them to concentrate on reviewing and forecasting for the group . |
| 10 | On the second day , she wrote Louise a letter that she knew was inadequate but told all that she felt capable of confiding for the moment . |
| 11 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 12 | The moth was still fluttering between the pane and pinned scarlet cotton . |
| 13 | And his question , making Anna laugh , drawing off the poison , sealed the success of his courtship of her . |
| 14 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 15 | On a final , poignant note , I notice a large arrow sticking through the front and rear of the house . |
| 16 | A narrow lane branching off the village street led to it . |
| 17 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 18 | In 1939 , when the new double tubes were constructed , branching off the Bakerloo system , Ernest spent much time away from the school watching the digging of the new Metropolitan Lines under buildings at Finchley Road . |
| 19 | I know nothing about radio — but I do n't need to , I realize , because , even while I watch , the waves are softly withdrawing from the wavebands , as from a beach at low tide on a calm summer 's afternoon , leaving me gazing through the darkness of my son 's bedroom at three shirts , two of them size 35 long , one of them size 32 medium . |
| 20 | ‘ How much longer ? ’ he said irritably , gazing through the windscreen , out across the Thames . |
| 21 | Emma looked into her mother 's face , and then making a small movement with her head before turning away and , gazing through the windscreen , she said , ‘ I 'm … |
| 22 | One pupil , sitting in the coveted position alongside the radiator , is gazing through the window and into the distance . |
| 23 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 4 reported that the meeting took place in the city of Chengdu , although other reports cited Nanning as the location . |
| 24 | ‘ I sometimes thought I got fobbed off , but everybody is out there campaigning and competing for the money , ’ said Ms Hinchliffe . |
| 25 | Vickers ' Challenger 2 was competing for the contract with the United States Abrams M1A2 and France 's Leclerc . |
| 26 | MEL at Crawley and Racal at New Malden are amongst the companies competing for the order . |
| 27 | If the seller knows the number of companies who are competing for the order , their likely stances , the criteria used by the buying organisation when deciding between them , the degree of pressure on key members of the decision making unit , and any formula they might use for assessing price acceptability , an accurate assessment of the power balance should be possible . |
| 28 | If they are listened to at all , it will probably be in the bath , on a car stereo , or in some other environment where the music is competing for the listener 's attention . |
| 29 | The solution was to operate independently , to abide by the unwritten rules of royal management and not let the Prince and Princess get into a position where they were competing for the limelight except when the occasion was pure entertainment . |
| 30 | At 45 Mainwaring Road the upper maisonette was still advertising itself for sale — no less than six boards competing for the passerby 's attention . |