Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Italy a roughly similar consular bulletin on trade relations with foreign countries and means of developing them appeared from 1862 , though irregularly and often in rather skimpy issues . |
| 2 | it 's got ta be useful because instead of going you know from one sort at one end and going out the other and never being ever seen again it 's going |
| 3 | RECENTLY , 12 WOMEN who accused Barclays Bank of sex discrimination for forcing them to retire at 60 have won a total of £160,000 , and their jobs back . |
| 4 | There had been unsuccessful attempts even further south ; the unfortunate Raleigh got himself out of the Tower by promising to find James 1 a supply of gold in Guiana , but he found no gold and he irritated the Spanish so much that they pushed James into having him executed in 1618 on the 1604 charge of treason . |
| 5 | But the real skill in producing it lies with one man , ‘ Sniffer In Chief ’ Frank Newlands . |
| 6 | Finance Minister Barend J. du Plessis in his budget speech on March 14 , 1990 , announced expenditure of R72,900 million ( an increase of 9.7 per cent over the 1989/90 budget — see p. 36915 ) ; revenue was expected to reach just under R65,000 million , up by 7.3 per cent on the previous year , leaving a deficit before borrowing which amounted to 2.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 7 | Prior to filming I Confess in 1953 , he prepared for his role as a priest by spending a week at a monastery just outside Quebec . |
| 8 | The UMIST computer was trained by feeding it details of 70 patients , such as pulse rate , temperature , age and data on previous heart problems . |
| 9 | The tribunal rules that Barclays discriminated against her by making her retire at 60 , when a man who had joined the bank at the same time could work until 65 . |