Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 2 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 3 | Gnoll Park — A designated Historical Landscape Garden dating from the 17th Century with a reservoir , cascades , lakes and playgrounds , together with many other landscape features . |
| 4 | One hundred patients of a total of 335 presenting for the first time with variceal haemorrhage were recruited into the study and randomised . |
| 5 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 6 | We see : in ex.5a the first violins with this theme combination ; in ex.5b the first oboe in a parallel spot ; in ex.5c on the upper stave the cellos ( in the tenor clef ) first with the twice-repeated dotted linear theme , then the angular four-note theme , marked with strokes , joining ( now in the bass clef ) in bar 401 the basses in a third of the five themes ; on the lower stave the basses announcing the angular theme , with strokes , followed by a dotted fragment of the linear theme ( in support of the cellos ) leading into the third theme with its signal-like opening and descending quaver passagework . |
| 7 | In leaving the room , swelling for the first time with tears , she had collided awkwardly with Gordon 's mother , who supposed she could stand where she liked in her own house , and even if Edward had called after her , she would not have been able to hear him . |
| 8 | It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors . |
| 9 | Liley spent a season playing in the second team with just half a dozen first-team appearances before the opportunity came this season , and so far it has gone remarkably well . |
| 10 | I still shudder at the memory of the only previous production I 've seen , which attempted to drag this 18th-century masterpiece kicking and screaming into the 20th century with the help of rap and reggae music and rewritten dialogue that sounded like a rejected Minder script . |
| 11 | When Carson reached the stairs at the end of the hall he kept on going , feeling for the first riser with his heel and wincing when the step creaked under his weight . |