Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] the [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 2 | can I just ask British Steel , that I mean you 're hearing the other two groups . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's either that or I 'll be spending the next million years in a coal measure . |
| 4 | ‘ Some swine stole her and ran her on to a coral reef , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm spending the next two months mending her . ’ |
| 5 | Erm yeah , tomorrow 's basically horrendously busy and I 'm temping the next two days , but I 'm free in the evenings . |
| 6 | The management of Absent Ltd have been studying the first three years ' results of this newly formed company and are a little concerned with the figures produced . |
| 7 | It said : ‘ I 'm so sorry to send a hired car but the first eleven foremen are playing the first eleven chauffeurs and there 's no-one else to drive you ’ . ’ |
| 8 | BR are hoping the eighty million pounds spent on new Turbo trains will bring and end to the complaints . |
| 9 | With signs the recession is ending the next two months will show whether the Leicester lights help or hinder shopkeepers . |
| 10 | The second time , she 's expressing the same two sentiments over some other shambling case of physical dereliction , while I 'm left panting on an immobile bicycle and I never go back . |
| 11 | What Summerchild is doing , now he has someone to do it for , is living the last dozen years of his life , which have gone by without his quite taking them in . |
| 12 | Now with a group of other Britons he 's cycling the fifteen hundred miles of his original escape route , to raise money for surviving resistance members . |
| 13 | This indicated to him that the tension in his neck was causing the other two problems . |
| 14 | N.P.W. Hancock was leading the first seven Hurricanes , this flight meeting Sunderland L5807 of 228 Squadron as planned , and reaching the island without any problems . |
| 15 | His hand , a freckled ham , was missing the top two joints from the index finger . |