Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarella lay fuming in bed for a few minutes before flinging back the duvet and running to the window . |
| 2 | This upward pressure is known as ‘ heave ’ , and can cause cracking in buildings in the same way as subsidence . |
| 3 | ( 7 ) If there are any convertible securities , subscription rights or options outstanding in respect of the target 's share capital , then an appropriate offer or proposal will need to be made pursuant to Rule 15 to ensure that the interests of the holders of these rights are safeguarded and all documents issued to shareholders must also be issued to the holders of convertibles and options to subscribe relating to shares of the same class ( see para 10.2 below ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I told him you would not be returning to Milano for a few days . ’ |
| 5 | Last June Louise Müller is appearing at Strasbourg in the same company as one of Fouché 's female agents , who makes a routine report to the effect that Louise has obtained employment in Vienna with the Schickenader Opera . |
| 6 | HANS Wagenknecht , 24 , is a physics student from Germany who will be looking for work in a few years . |
| 7 | Wednesday are looking for £800,000 for the former Swindon player , who Chelsea value at closer to £500,000 . |
| 8 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 9 | Mr and Mrs Bumble lost their jobs and became poorer and poorer , eventually living in poverty in the same workhouse that they had once managed . |
| 10 | It can accommodate simulations of drainage-basins ranging in size from a few hectares to 40 000 square kilometres . |
| 11 | Stonegate Teddy Bears stocks hundreds of different models , ranging in price from a few pounds to around £300 . |
| 12 | The service provided , and fee are matters to discuss initially with an Architect , ranging in cost from a few pounds upwards . |
| 13 | Pat sat smoking in silence for a few minutes and no one else spoke but suddenly he said , ‘ How much of it was real , Julia , when you come to think of it , and how much for fear of what people would say ? |
| 14 | The Trade Practices Commission has recommended that record shops be free to import directly , leading to price reductions and improved service ; however the Government , bowing to pressure from a few local ( pop ) musicians , has failed to act . |
| 15 | The 68EN360 will be available for sampling in September in the same package at $59.50 in 10,000-up quantities . |
| 16 | Mr Furbank gives an excellent picture of this hand-to-mouth existence , not so different from that which Samuel Johnson was leading in London at the same time . |
| 17 | On March 23 the NDPD ( which together with the CDU , the DBD and the liberal democrat precursor to the LDP had been one of the four " bloc " parties governing in coalition with the former communist regime — see p. 37025 ) joined the League of Free Democrat — the renamed LDP — to form one faction . |
| 18 | How do you feel about going to Czechoslovakia in a few days . |
| 19 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
| 20 | I 'm going to sleep for a few hours . ’ |
| 21 | We 'll be going to London for a few days next month to find suitable premises , so I 'll be able to go down and see Mum and Dad and the children . |
| 22 | I knew I was going to Stafford for a few days , but I do n't think , I 'll be there a fortnight . |
| 23 | Sometimes X sells goods to Y who in turn sells them to Z. Sometimes , however , Y acts as X 's agent in selling to Z. In the former case Z buys his goods from Y and if they are not delivered or are defective Z can look to his seller , Y , and if necessary can sue him for breach of his contract of sale . |
| 24 | A massive explosion occurred during testing at Tobolsk on the same pipeline in October . |
| 25 | Although some of the groups would clearly not be competing with others for the same kind of housing ( for example , families with two or more children versus single applicants ) , there are potentially 25 different queues . |
| 26 | This has remained for five generations in the same family , and roughly speaking with headquarters on the same site , whereas Smith 's ownership has passed through several families and occupied many addresses before settling in 1921 on 57–61 St Vincent Street . |
| 27 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 28 | By switching from concentration on a few ‘ proof texts ’ in evangelism to a more balanced and comprehensive approach adopted by one of the four Gospels we might see better short and long-term results in our evangelism . |
| 29 | The problem might even be confined to England itself , for it is not unusual , particularly in the twelfth century , to find two systems of reckoning in use at the same time for different classes of computation . |
| 30 | other clauses could refer to the manager travelling and staying in accommodation of the same class as the artist . |