Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |
| 2 | France will find the challenge of defending the Davis Cup even more difficult than that of winning it in 1992 . |
| 3 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 4 | But because a survey is a personal matter and a personal responsibility , you ought to insist on meeting the surveyor first before committing yourself to one particular firm . |
| 5 | He is obviously intent upon amusing himself with two women . |