Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He filled out all the forms making her older than she was and as uninteresting as possible . |
| 2 | ‘ Before , in the Kirov , what happened was that there were eight or ten singers working for one new production each year , and another 50 sitting in the rehearsals criticizing them . |
| 3 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 4 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 5 | Maxim did his best to shrug inside the ropes wrapping him to the chair . |
| 6 | To raise her knees would cause the ropes securing her body to cut into her flesh . |
| 7 | Here is a list of some of the galleries showcasing their own artists in permanent or rotating exhibitions ( be sure to check before going to note galleries ' often reduced summer hours ) : Beitzel , Blum Helman Warehouse , Brown , Fischbach , Gagosian , Gladstone , Goodman , Gorney , Graham Modern , Hirschl & Adler , Knoedler , Louver , Curt Marcus , Barbara Mathes , McKee , Metro Pictures , Midtown-Payson , Victoria Munroe , Pace , P.P.O.W. , Protech , Solomon , Sperone Westwater , Tatischeff , Thorp , Barbara Toll and Germans van Eck . |
| 8 | And as if Ontario was n't pretty enough of a picture , there are the galleries showing everything from the avant-garde to Old Masters . |
| 9 | The chaplain , crouched on a stool near the fireplace , stared into the flames wringing his hands whilst Rastani , the silent , dark servant , sat with his back to the wall as if he wished the very stones would open and swallow him . |
| 10 | Mr Connor ran from his Vauxhall Cavalier to drag Mr Haigh from the flames engulfing his Peugeot 309 . |
| 11 | Main photo : Gogarth 's Main Wall dwarfs the climbers scaling its fine , traditional lines . |
| 12 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 13 | We ought to be able to creep out easily when they 're all asleep , ’ he added and Fenella frowned at him , because they could not risk the giants guessing what they intended to do . |
| 14 | We have , in Prestatyn , a facility which is very central and well used , despite the fact that the signs advertising it have been changed three times in five years . ’ |
| 15 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 16 | A few seconds later he was followed by Rocky 's rig , the chains linking it to the ruined gates having been released from its rear axle by Springfield . |
| 17 | I think there 's still too much ‘ You do that , you do this ’ in the big record companies , but that 's bollocks too , because without the artists knowing what they 're doing nobody in the record company would have a job . ’ |
| 18 | Undertakings to be won from the lairds binding themselves to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . ’ |
| 19 | Mourning also helps us to see the dangers facing our planet . |
| 20 | Colleagues , who 've been paying tribute to his dedication and exertise , say he 'd always been aware of the dangers surrounding his work.Ian Maclaren reports . |
| 21 | The world is at last waking up to the dangers threatening us all . |
| 22 | This collection has been brought together at a time when the Banjara people are gravitating towards the cities relinquishing their nomadic life and abandoning their dynamic textile art . |
| 23 | We discovered last month that one of the major challenges of keeping a marine aquarium is choosing fish which will live in harmony together and , where applicable those which will be compatible with the invertebrates sharing their aquarium . |
| 24 | As I write , Washington is taking a second look at a once-derided theory , which maintains that the Reagan-Bush campaign made a private deal with Iran in 1980 ; the Iranians keeping the American hostages until after the election and the Reaganites rewarding them with heavy weapons as the price of Jimmy Carter 's pelt . |
| 25 | ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract . |
| 26 | After heated debate and repeated votes , Gorbachev succeeded in pushing through the legislation , which effectively meant the deputies voting themselves out of office . |
| 27 | To require more runs the risk of the courts substituting their view for that of the authority . |
| 28 | This is a statement of law as it should be , rather than as it is , but there is nothing to stop the courts developing it in this direction . |
| 29 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 30 | Your eyes narrow against the claws gripping you by the scruff of the neck until you let your hook of anger go . |