Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he leaped for the null-grav shaft , he caught sight of the prisoner thrashing through the air two storeys above . |
| 2 | ‘ He has been in and out of the side since signing as an amateur three years ago but in the past couple of weeks has taken the game by the scruff of the neck . ’ |
| 3 | WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD 30 YEARS AGO |
| 4 | More important is the ability of companies to increase earnings per share by enough to push share prices any higher at a time when they are already trading on an average 18 times earnings . |
| 5 | The problem may explain why Brady has not made more of an impact since exploding on the scene three years ago . |
| 6 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
| 7 | Lukas Safarimoja stumbled on a strange cassava plant while hunting in the bush 36 years ago . |
| 8 | The inhabitants of this tiny country next to Austria have the longest life expectancy in the world , with women living to an average 82.6 years , and males to 77.6 . |
| 9 | According to the report 11 countries ( Brazil , Colombia , Côte d'Ivoire , India , Indonesia , Laos , Myanma , Nigeria , the Philippines , Thailand and Vietnam ) were responsible for 82 per cent of the world 's forest felling . |
| 10 | According to the report five officers had planned to use two military helicopters to bomb the headquarters during a joint meeting of government ministers and the Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) to discuss the austerity measures to be announced the next day . |
| 11 | It was found by Les Stocker 's team perching on a garage ten miles from the scene of his attack . |
| 12 | I could perhaps put at least part of it in very homely erm and perhaps somewhat banal terms by saying that five minutes spent waiting for the person one loves may seem like five hours , whereas five hours spent with that person may appear a mere five minutes . |
| 13 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 14 | He could remember the car pulling onto the verge 20 yards behind the target . |
| 15 | Their role in executive search is no longer of much significance , with only 5% of their headhunting clients ranking within the Fortune 500 companies . |
| 16 | The only way to compare them is to calculate what they would be paying over the whole 25 years if neither of them moved from their present home . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd done a lot of training , going to the gym three times a week and now I 'm one of the top boxers for my age and weight . |
| 18 | At the risk of adding to the confusion four sub-divisions of the Ophiacanthidae are proposed for testing . |
| 19 | She was still lying on the carpet five minutes later when he left the apartment . |
| 20 | About twenty feet from the trench , in the centre of the dirt track leading to the road two Commandos were standing peering into a large hole in the ground . |
| 21 | The great metal roof-tree which held the house together had bent inwards as though from some giant 's blow , and listening , Rachel could hear tiles still slithering down the slope and crashing into the street forty feet below . |
| 22 | Amid the clatter of cutlery and crockery , my contact revealed how Diana had seriously considered calling off the wedding two days before she walked down the aisle at St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 23 | Hamish Reilly , 35 , worked for an electronics firm in Livingston before moving into the hostel 14 months ago . |
| 24 | Three hours later she was back at the rendezvous but there was no sign of the canoe , only the sound of surf breaking on the beach two miles away . |
| 25 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
| 26 | Shut the door ! she 's coming towards the door ninety miles an hour . |
| 27 | The E text , despite surviving in a manuscript eighty years younger than that of C , may sometimes preserve better readings . |
| 28 | North London 's status is now under threat after failing to travel to Leicester , as they have to reapply for League membership after finishing in the bottom four places of the division . |
| 29 | Imagine three spiral staircases starting from the ground 120 degrees apart in plan view , and twisting round one another ! |
| 30 | Ron had pounced from his car , screeching to a halt ten yards ahead of them . |