Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People began throwing suggestions at him , some kindly , some less so , as the same shops came zinging past for the third and fourth times . |
| 2 | Tourist numbers currently total 50 million annually , and demand is expected to continue growing well into the next century . |
| 3 | Although there was no hospital in the northern part of the town , where forces loyal to Mahdi Mohammed were concentrated , a surgical team sent by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) began operating there in the first week of December . |
| 4 | Worldwide gas , and oil , prices are expected to start rising early in the next century . |
| 5 | I started reading more about the 19th century Swinbrook … about the great wood of Wychwood . |
| 6 | And then , deciding that it was time to start dropping bombshells , ‘ Some actresses have continued acting well into the eighth month of pregnancy . ’ |
| 7 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 8 | Mr Stefan Abrams , an investment analyst at Kidder Peabody , thinks earnings will start rising again in the second quarter . |
| 9 | Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards . |