Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked impressive in seeing off Malahide in the semi-final and the five-pronged bowling attack will most likely be unchanged for the final , which begins on Saturday . |
| 2 | Within a year , in the summer of 1987 , Brannen was competing for Britain in the European Junior Championships . |
| 3 | Neufville ran for Cambridge Harriers in South East London though she opted for competing for Jamaica in the prestigious games . |
| 4 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 5 | Martyn Grimley , another Great Britain player , will be appearing for Brooklands in the Second Division . |
| 6 | Jack was a native of Crook in County Durham and played for the local amateur side as a junior before signing for Newcastle at the age of 17 . |
| 7 | Hunt became a national motor racing hero in 1976 when he lifted the world formula one championship driving for McLaren at the age of 28 . |
| 8 | Sister Catherine Dunne , a nun of the Sisters of Mercy Order , who was driving towards Armagh at the time , was also killed in the explosion and her passenger , a social worker , was seriously injured . |
| 9 | Elizabeth was walking with Betty behind the doctor and April , who was clinging to his arm and , as it were , daintily tripping up . |
| 10 | Either alternative would have worked , but we believe that aligning with Novell in the proposed merger is the best way to go . |
| 11 | Bryan , who spent a week holidaying with Fergie in the south of France , was back at his Chelsea home last night . |
| 12 | At a little before ten o'clock he was walking along Moorgate towards the house on stilts , smoking his pipe and thinking about Sarah . |
| 13 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 14 | Just as Bulletin 74 was being published , a Forestry Commission booklet Air Pollution and Forests stated ‘ there is no sign of the type of damage seen in West Germany , occurring in Britain at the moment ’ . |
| 15 | Similar problems are occurring in Rondonia in the southwest of Brazil , where the Polonoroesti road-building project is attracting some 70 000–80 000 settlers per year as the forest is opened up . |
| 16 | The most explicitly analogous changes to those in the UK have been occurring in Australia with the development of multidisciplinary geriatric assessment teams to assess entry to publicly funded care , the development of the Home and Community Care Act to develop enhanced home care services with additional central government funding and the community options programme , designed to provide co-ordinated care at home for the most vulnerable through case management ( Ozanne , 1990 ; DCS , 1986 ; Graham et al. , 1992 ) . |
| 17 | In a television interview given after appearing in Adelaide at the annual meeting of his parent company , News Corporation , he confessed to having ‘ considerable sympathy ’ for the way Bob was handling the economy . |
| 18 | You see I mean er er and this generally , I mean ju just as when Stalin claimed to be communist , that claim has been accepted by the great majority of people writing about what was happening in Russia in the West and in just the same way the Chinese leadership er after nineteen forty nine claimed to be communist , claimed to be standing in the tradition of Marx and that claim , generally speaking , has been accepted . |
| 19 | To some extent this is what has been happening in Britain in the 1980s . |
| 20 | What is happening in India at the moment is something we were not expecting . |
| 21 | Look what was threatened and nearly happened to the Falls Women 's Centre , and it 's not just in West Belfast ; the same is happening in Ballybeen on the other side of the city . |
| 22 | Winter dormancy may be ending in February in the balmy south-west , not till a month later in the northern counties , and weeks after that around Aberdeen . |
| 23 | Discounts are available for customers returning from Venice on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express or on selected dates . |
| 24 | There was also agreement on airdrops of food for refugees returning from Ethiopia in the Bakok area . |
| 25 | Early in the month William Wordsworth , returning from Bristol to the home he was sharing near Crewkerne with his sister Dorothy , made a detour into West Somerset to visit Coleridge . |
| 26 | ‘ Bruno against Lennox means something in London but it means nothing in America and I just ca n't see it happening until October at the earliest . |
| 27 | Cyclops were not unique to Greek mythology ; appearing to Sinbad in The Arabian Nights was a huge monster : |
| 28 | And did those feet … predecessors of the new wave of Soviet Jews walking to Palestine in the 1930sPHOTOGRAPH : BBC HULTON PICTURE LIBRARY corrections page 19 |
| 29 | I can remember as a boy walking to Rochester via the ferry and Wouldham on many occasions but this was only a stroll compared with some of the older inhabitants efforts . |
| 30 | He could also be seen riding on Buddie 's back with a shiny red apple in each hand , and again walking beside Smallfry on the day she wore the big yellow roses in her hair . |