Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerry Peel was pre-event favourite in this over-40s competition , but had to settle for third place behind Peter Black and Dave Barton after failing to read the last move . |
| 2 | There seemed no point , unless it was just a question of wanting to get the last word . |
| 3 | I think that one 's saying that in order to resolve one problem , their may be unforeseen and , one hopes temporary , minor problems which emerge in consequence of attempting to resolve the first problem . |
| 4 | It was a Dutch medical man who is credited with having discovered the first recipe for gin back in the 1600s . |
| 5 | Gandhi acknowledged this and what he has to say about brahmacārya has to be taken as applying in the main to those who are able to accept the discipline involved in resolving to enter the third stage of life . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 7 | ( I saw a party of friends — all knowing that their host and hostess must either clear up before retiring , or rise early before going to work the next day — whisking round to help before they left . |
| 8 | Many of them were feeling distinctly insecure at having taken the first step out of the closet and they kept the escape route in sight at all times . |
| 9 | Contrasting the brutal murder of a taxi driver with the subsequent execution of the accused , A Short Film About Killing forms the first part of Kieslowski 's Decalogue cycle — ten separate parables which draw thematically from the Ten Commandments and are linked by a common setting , an anonymous Warsaw housing estate . |