Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nipples do n't twinkle — you must have fallen asleep looking at the fairy lights on the Christmas tree , ’ she scoffed . |
| 2 | And it then made possible going by the shortest route . |
| 3 | Contrary to popular belief , Soviet economic sources provided rich picking for the researcher , as long as the right subject was chosen . |
| 4 | Romanyshyn 's exposition of the critique is , however , forceful and lively and may stimulate those working within the traditional paradigm at least to justify their indifference , if not to question their perspective . |
| 5 | The ideas put forward are offered as a structure to enable finance theorists and accountants to widen their perspectives and also to encourage those operating in the strategy field to welcome collaboration with finance specialists . |
| 6 | We have reformed the organisation of the NHS to encourage those working in the service to respond to what patients want and need , and to get the most out of the increased money which the taxpayer provides . |
| 7 | Fujimori 's " reservations " on 41 articles of the bill had included those relating to the expenses of Congress which , he argued , should also " comply with the principles of austerity " . |
| 8 | Further constitutional reform will include those leading to the replacement of the House of Lords with a new elected Second Chamber which will have the power to delay , for the lifetime of a Parliament , change to designated legislation reducing individual or constitutional rights . |
| 9 | The second national conference for charity accountants provides an opportunity for all those involved in charity financial management , including accountants , advisers with charity clients , treasurers and trustees , to meet other working in the same field , and to examine the new demands and expectations facing charities and the impact of new charity law . |
| 10 | Education was encouraged by the General Education Act of 1870 ; and made compulsory in 1876 up to age 10 and to age 14 according to the Act of 1880 . |
| 11 | Got squashed in the photo files by Brendon Fitzgerald , broke the photocopier , got lost looking for the canteen , uncovered the truth about IPC tea , became Dele Fadele 's personal typewriter ribbon engineer ( have been ever since ) , discovered House music had not yet reached Waterloo , realised that guitars really are the work of the devil , mended the then extremely sad NME stereo ( ie , plugged it in ) and was quickly appointed technical supervisor to anything mechanical ( plugs , electrical toothbrushes ) , invented dance music , formed Subbuteo league with James Brown and Simon Dudfield which eventually became fixed beyond all belief , tried to blag a Misty In Roots CD and failed . |
| 12 | claims for personal injury arising out of complaints of indecent assault or rape were subject to the six year limitation period as set out in section 2 of the limitations act 1980 running from the date when the cause of action accrued . |
| 13 | How often I had seen that pinching of the skin ! |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll come and do some measuring in the morning if that suits , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I 've already done some checking with the Luftwaffe . |
| 16 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 17 | In the rest of the region , Israel Radio 's coverage allows those living in the Arab world to hear about events that are censored by their own governments . |
| 18 | Only a superb performance by their former reserve goalkeeper Steve Pears prevented United going into the second leg at Old Trafford next Wednesday with a commanding lead . |
| 19 | They were made from the road , without Mr Freitag even crossing the garden gate let alone probing around the bedrooms . |
| 20 | Keep the joint , what 's happening is the the the smooth side is starting to get a wee bit rough and if you can keep that rubbing off the other bone it smooths it down . |
| 21 | I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air . |
| 22 | Not infrequently two or more adjacent cells may become confluent owing to the atrophy of the vein or veins separating them . |
| 23 | Then jagged peaks came out of cloud-filled valleys to steal all colouring from the sky and day flooded the glacier ahead , painting it with a palette of new-formed pastel shades . |
| 24 | I 'd got soaked going to the market . ’ |
| 25 | employers in the IT industries and in education dominated those recruiting from the Advanced Courses . |
| 26 | Yes , I 've got four going at the moment , actually . |
| 27 | Yes , I 've got four going at the moment actually , it 's rather ludicrous really . |
| 28 | He lacked all feeling for the men whose lives he destroyed . |
| 29 | No one gets rich working for the Royal Family . |
| 30 | Admittedly , solutions do not always demand extensive delving into the past . |