Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trunchbull flicked her head round and looked carefully at the small girl with dark hair and deep brown eyes sitting in the second row . |
| 2 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 3 | While speaking he had been aware of the Doctor 's red , exasperated features grimacing in the first rank at the foot of the stairs ; he had seemed nervously excited , anxious , impatient that the auction should be over . |
| 4 | There were seventeen precepting bodies operating in the first year of the new system and a larger number of ad hoc bodies which could levy funds . |
| 5 | THE Football Association are to request that players of all clubs competing in the third round of the FA Cup this weekend should wear black armbands in memory of former secretary Ted Croker , who died at the age of 68 on Christmas Day . |
| 6 | Many authors writing in the third person use ‘ he ’ and ‘ his ’ , even when the references include or refer to women . |
| 7 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 8 | And for one lady from Little Crosby accompanied by her pet labrador the gardening was interrupted to watch more than a thousand runners competing in the 11th Crosby 10 snaking past her home |
| 9 | This was a disconcerting contrast to the chambers of sickness all about , the bodies lying in white bleached wards with pieces of themselves cut away for ever , the hidden grey figures struggling in the last embrace of life . |
| 10 | He had no idea the club would prove so popular — with 750 members joining in the first 5 months . |
| 11 | Yet , the unambitious satiric intentions are fulfilled , the most successful sequences coming in the first fifteen minutes . |
| 12 | Although he will take urgent steps to impose a new contract , which they have rejected , he has told the doctors ' and dentists ' pay review body that he is prepared to tackle any problems arising in the first year . |
| 13 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 14 | Further withdrawals by Maronite and other candidates standing in the second round were reported , and Assad Shaftari , deputy leader of the Al-Waad party , withdrew his candidature for the seat in Beirut reserved for the Orthodox Christians . |
| 15 | The racing scene will be represented by ‘ View of Long Island Sound ’ by Admiral Sir Richard Brydges Beechey depicting two yachts participating in the first race of the 1886 Americas cup ( est. £30,000–50,000 ; $48,000–80,000 ) . |
| 16 | Countless runs were saved by the Kent fielders , but Hampshire seemed to be wilting under the pressure with two boundaries coming in the 33rd over — both thanks to fielding errors . |
| 17 | This is the Celtic family I have always longed for , complete with live fires , family feuds , squirming freckle-nosed children a-playing in the next room , suggestive sighing and eyeing between the sisters , the indisputable unity created by the sick mother/grandmother in hospital , the indisputable union of songs you always know whether you want to remember them or not . |
| 18 | The Grand National meeting at Aintree has got off to a tragic start with two horses dying in the first race . |