Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 2 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 3 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 4 | She had very nearly done a cordon bleu cookery course after she had left school , only deciding at the last minute to reinvest her time and money in the boutique instead . |
| 5 | What makes it even more sweet is the fact that they crapped on about us only getting to the 2nd round last year and how they were going to get to the final . |
| 6 | Again , not everyone — and surely not McGeechan — would view with any great enthusiasm the prospect of returning to the previous law and the spectacle of sundry sides , but England especially , so often merely playing for the next scrum . |
| 7 | For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle . |
| 8 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 9 | No-one in the England camp was prepared to say whether there was less longing for the next tour of the Caribbean or to Pakistan , where the proposed 1996–97 series seems safely enough into the future . |
| 10 | It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century , but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times . |
| 11 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 12 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 13 | On such a calendar , the Gunflint fossils of algae-like organisms , which seemed so extremely ancient when they were first discovered , are seen to be quite latecomers in the history of life , not appearing until the second week of August . |
| 14 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
| 15 | All you 've got to do is concentrate on getting out quick and running your own thing , not looking at the next guy . |
| 16 | And it is my responsibility to make sure the players concentrate over the entire 90 minutes and are not looking towards the next match . |
| 17 | Although the classification notation will subsequently incorporate the notation of the second facet , the document will be placed physically according to the first facet ; that is , this document will either be placed with other documents on mathematics or with other documents on primary schools . |
| 18 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 19 | The third framework programme , once approved by the Council and Parliament , would run from 1990 to 1994 thus overlapping with the second framework programme ( see p. 36052 ) . |
| 20 | She rubbed at her abused flesh , desperately grasping at the first straw to float into her mind . |
| 21 | I think half the crowd were on their way home , down Headington Hill , down Lime Walk , bemoaning United not scoring for the second week in succession , then up steps Andy Melville . |
| 22 | Interest in the nature of society was not lacking in the sixteenth century , and in one way or another commentators found a good deal to say about it . |
| 23 | ‘ To invade those poor people in Poland when they 're only just getting over the last war . ’ |
| 24 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 25 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 26 | As they headed off on their Whitsun holiday , backbenchers were already muttering about the next shake-up . |
| 27 | Hodge : At 31 and not playing in the first team . |
| 28 | I would imagine what they 're doing is raising the roof and not putting in the second storey . |
| 29 | Gray was already working on the second edition when he caught smallpox from his nephew , developed the confluent form of the disease , and died at 8 Wilton Street , Belgrave Square , London , 8 June 1871 , aged thirty-six according to the obituary notices of the Lancet and the Proceedings of the Royal Society , which raises the question of his date of birth , usually stated as 1827 . |
| 30 | Robert whirled round on his mother , suspecting her of some collusion with the child , but , with the wistful fondness of a woman who has finished with childbearing , Mrs Wilson was still gazing at the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |