Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Andy Saville broke his arm after signing two weeks ago a lot of people thought we would give up , but we pushed the boat out and bought John Thomas . |
| 2 | From my understanding , more than a quarter of a million TM practitioners in England are in ignorance , currently invoking heathen deities twice a day , and the majority do not even know it ! |
| 3 | It allowed workers the opportunity to buy as much as 20 per cent of their company 's shares at half price as well as offering them low-interest loans for buying future shares once a stock market was established . |
| 4 | Assuming similar proportions even a study of 5000 patients would not have shown a significant difference between the two groups . |
| 5 | Those taking several trips abroad a year should consider special rates offered on annual cover . |
| 6 | And you find more or more or less forceful ways of of giving directives , and one way of making some things perhaps a bit less forceful is to put a tag question on cos it 's sort of adding a sort of pleading note on to it , to ask somebody to do it , I think . |
| 7 | The proactive approach is best suited to identifying strategic acquisitions where a purchaser is prepared to pay a fair price , whereas the reactive approach is more suited to acquirors looking for opportunistic sale situations . |
| 8 | The Heritage range is the most flexible because cantilever cross frames are used to carry all the first floor loads and most of the roof , leaving internal divisions largely a matter of choice . |
| 9 | The rebels also captured the Boulogne tank factory on the outskirts of the city , killing three civilians when a tank they had commandeered collided with a bus . |
| 10 | And the ship 's chandler is always needing spare hands when a boat comes in . |