Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tired by her journey from the north of England and the heat , she had decided to defer unpacking until the next day , standing her cases temporarily to one side of the curtain that divided her cabin from the small galley . |
| 2 | Then , feeling that the reply was too abrupt , he added : ‘ I 'll sure come out and help with any work Uncle Joe wants doing on the next weekend . ’ |
| 3 | It only starts counting from the first row of an entry and stops at the last . |
| 4 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 5 | The man would , of course , have come fasting to the first Mass of the day . |
| 6 | If you have been unemployed for a while seek retraining as a first step to a new , positive attitude . |
| 7 | To see this , imagine repeating for a second country the process just described for the first . |
| 8 | Indeed , they lost Gooch , Hick — cheaply again — and Stewart before they were in credit ; but with Smith mixing careworn defence and carefree attack , once pulling Su'a for six while on one knee as the Samoan attempted some left-arm spin , and Lamb all bustle and energy , English fears were eased going into the last day . |
| 9 | Kim Milson , who won the first match , once again won his section and was leading the series , yours truly in second place and perfectly placed going into the third match which was to be fished on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton . |
| 10 | Article 38 is the only specified exception , for it preserves the position that a rule set forth in a treaty can become binding upon a third party as a rule of customary international law . |
| 11 | The study was performed according to the second declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethical Committee of Aarhus county . |
| 12 | In the Masters he blew his chances by pushing an over-clubbed second shot into the crowd to take a bogey-five on the last hole and lose by a stroke to Jack Nicklaus after leading going into the last round . |
| 13 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 14 | In all cases , you would be wise to avoid waiting until the last minute . |
| 15 | The end of the coding region is indicated by a U. Translation is shown initiating at the first methionine at nucleotide 76 . |
| 16 | It means , do n't keep wishing for the next day , or the next week , or month , or year , or your life goes too fast . |
| 17 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 18 | Perversely , I enjoyed going beyond the last putt , and watching Augusta 's chairman , embodiment of America 's ‘ Establishment , ’ claim his share of world television with a speech of mind-bending banality . |
| 19 | Brian Horton says that Joey is a proven scorer … he 's scored goals in the youth team … the reserves and hopefully keeps scoring for the first team … he 's exciting … and people love to watch wingers … |
| 20 | I remember thinking of the 121st Psalm as we looked longingly towards the hills — ‘ I will lift up my eyes … ’ |
| 21 | Villa-Flotilla is the safest way to sample cruising for the first time . |
| 22 | I left the main group and started searching on the first floor at the west side of the house . |
| 23 | If you , all I do n't want us to do is to start drifting into the second exercise as part of this first exercise which sounds very much |
| 24 | So that erm perhaps puts erm some of sexuality in a little bit of a historical context erm and um I suppose coming into the nineteenth century though , nineteenth century , particularly the second half of the nineteenth century , in large cities it was notorious for child prostitution for um a whole rate of exploitative sexual practices that underlay Victorian respectability so erm all these um peculiar kinds of things seemed to be going on . |
| 25 | Sainz added : ‘ It 's been a really difficult rally because we have had to keep trying since the first stage . |
| 26 | I therefore started working for the first time in my life . |
| 27 | Pictured looking at a first edition of Mansfield Park are , back row : |
| 28 | Yet I keep changing , keep searching for the next challenge . |
| 29 | You know I mean you er er it 's al I , I think the same would happen if you put a five note in inside it would get thrown out with the rubbish but erm the thing is that obviously some , some early day , if one can say in inverted commas early day publicity erm from the Northumberland side of things could a and I mean my view when , when Ros was telling me what happened at the last meeting erm was that was gon na be acting as an icebreaker as opposed waiting till the last minute somebody 's gon na and they think erm as it were , a and build up from , from that because there 's obviously gon na be one or two other things coming directly from national level . |
| 30 | ‘ When you have a child to consider you do n't go rushing into the first relationship that comes along . |