Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , as they talked , arrows started to rain down on them , landing uncomfortably close to the two travellers . |
| 2 | Looking further ahead to the mid-1990s , the [ Mt does not expect the three big economies ' external imbalances to change as a percentage of GNP — in dollar terms they will rise-assuming economic policies and exchange rates stay the same . |
| 3 | So we 're meeting back here on the twenty fifth of April at two thirty . |
| 4 | Lining up tonight in the 450 metres event are the highly-rated Belle Vue racer No Joe Soap , Powderhall 's Rhincrew Legend , Dawn Milligan 's Smashiton , Sheffield-based Ragus and Gordon Rooks ' Movealong Sharp , which won three on the trot at the East Boldon circuit before losing on the run-in last week . |
| 5 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 6 | It then fluctuated around that level until 1973 , although rising quite sharply in the 1971–2 recession ( chapter 12 ) . |
| 7 | Besides the top six , coming in just below the million pounds for their year 's labour were two directors grossing 900,000 ( $1,440,000 ) . |
| 8 | The overseas weighting fell from the end of the First World War until the early 1950s , since when it has grown steadily , increasing sharply again in the 1980s after the removal of exchange control in 1979 . |
| 9 | After his death in the south of France , which he had been visiting almost annually since the 1870s , his body was brought back and some 60,000 people filed past the coffin . |