Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree , sometimes I can tell you I have witnessed a hunt and on a cold , frosty morning when er about forty or fifty horses are thundering across the ploughed field , it 's enough to p the power of that sight is enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up that 's not what we are against the hunter that came to me and says Eh up lad , I wo n't go drag hunting because I 'm sixty years old , I 've done it all my life and I like the ride , I like to be there I never see a fox killed that 's fact , it 's in the video . |
| 2 | Seven or eight men were running past us . |
| 3 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 4 | A young daughter will help her father distribute game or follow her mother into the fields , but by the age of 9 or 10 girls are participating in the total range of tasks normal to female status . |
| 5 | One or two books were missing from the study shelves ; perhaps guests had simply borrowed them and taken them to their rooms . |
| 6 | Between 1951 and 1971 Britain was urbanizing through an outward extension of commuter hinterlands , the populations of urban cores falling from 53.7 per cent of the national total to 47.9 per cent . |
| 7 | on the River Thames tomorrow afternoon … one hundred and nineteen scullers are competing in the Marlow club 's 30th anniversary long distance race … and finally over in Cheltenham the horse with 125 owners … |
| 8 | AT LEAST one person died and three others were fighting for their lives after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong yesterday . |
| 9 | And three humans were running towards Jekub in big , floating bounds . |
| 10 | In lines 3 and 4 Gunn is looking for the beginnings of these dreaded signs in himself . |
| 11 | The boaters , 4 adults and 4 children were sailing on the River Severn , when they got swept up by the Severn bore . |
| 12 | The car was badly damaged and one man was lying in a ditch . |
| 13 | He seemed dazed , and one eye was closing after a punch or a fall on stage . |
| 14 | Currently two Americans and one German are working at Fredheim . |
| 15 | Thus we discovered that about 6000 males and 2000 females were breeding in the lake ( see Table ) . |
| 16 | The water was black , ice-filled , and two youths were fighting with quarter-staffs on one of the shit-strewn footbridges . |
| 17 | Men were lying on the dirty floor , a sailor was asleep on a table and two women were drinking at the bar . |
| 18 | It is 1996 , and two men are sitting in a posh City of London restaurant . |
| 19 | ONE PERSON died and four others were fighting for their lives last night after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong . |
| 20 | They had a numerous family , of whom four sons and four daughters were living in 1878 . |
| 21 | Shelling had destroyed a wing of the building and 200 children were living in the basement . |
| 22 | It claimed that not 325 objects but 463 objects were missing from the museum . |
| 23 | But 630 jobs are going at British Aerospace . |
| 24 | SHE 's brown-eyed , middle-aged and has a passion for shell-suits … but one thing is missing in her life — a swarthy Mediterranean lover . |