Example sentences of "[v-ing] [num] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next twenty years he managed the Lyceum , organizing eight tours of the United States and Canada . |
| 2 | Using 256 colours on a VGA display , the graphics show warmth around lamps and fireplaces and muggy dampness out on the smog filled London streets . |
| 3 | Using 1016 mb as the datum , it is clear that if the atmospheric pressure is higher than the datum of 1016 mb , the practical effect will be to give a lower water level than the predicted value . |
| 4 | To get a closer look at what I was doing he jumped onto the table , knocking eight woodscrews onto the floor . |
| 5 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
| 6 | Greg remained perched uneasily , staring down into his glass , feeling like a juggler who suddenly finds he is keeping eleven balls in the air instead of ten , and wonders where on earth the other ball has come from . |
| 7 | Naturally it results in acrobatics , with Frank driving through a tent — in which two people are sleeping — and speeding through a hay loft , leaping fifty feet through the air , crashing into a pond , then driving out of the water after being submerged . |
| 8 | His standing in the public opinion polls plummeted as a result of his pardon of Nixon , and the 1974 congressional elections led to further decimation of Republican party representation — the Democrats gaining 49 seats in the House and 4 in the Senate . |
| 9 | And five national arts associations representing 12,000 organisations across the country have banded together , hiring a New York-based public relations firm to lead a campaign in support of the endowment . |
| 10 | Walkers who would not dare stroll half a mile in inner cities thought nothing of walking 190 miles across the fells , dales and moors from St Bee 's in Cumbria to Robin Hood 's Bay in North Yorkshire . |
| 11 | The treatment involved walking three times round the shore and then departing , without looking back . |
| 12 | She acknowledged that ‘ cultural work must be closely combined with political tasks ’ , and went on to prove it by signing three directives on the censorship of libraries between 1920 and 1924 . |
| 13 | He further suggested that the fifty-six Aubrey holes could have been used as eclipse predictors , representing three cycles of the moon 's nodes , each taking 18.6 years . |
| 14 | Last June Hinckley was found not guilty , by reason of insanity , of trying to assassinate President Reagan and of wounding three others in the attempt . |
| 15 | This takes as its theme " " Goddes pryvetee " " : a phrase appearing three times in the Miller 's Prologue and Tale ( 3164 , 3454 , 3558 ) and recalled again when John tells his wife his so-called " " pryvetee " " in line 3603 . |
| 16 | Over 600 amateur performers representing 11 Organisations including the League of Health & Beauty , Keep Fit , Margaret Morris , Medau , Slimnastics , Ballroom and Folk Dance , etc. moved in a kaleidoscope of colour within the splendour of the Royal Albert Hall enthralling their audience , ending in a grand finale flooding into the arena from every entrance and aisle , swirling round in one great happy group to celebrate this wonderful occasion . |
| 17 | As a result of the congressional elections meanwhile , the Democrats retained their crushing margin of superiority , returning 292 candidates in the House ( as against 143 Republicans ) and in the Senate finishing up with 62 seats ( compared with 38 for the Republicans ) . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , this book , assembling 16 papers as the proceedings of an RSC symposium held at the University of Liverpool , in September 1988 , largely fails in meeting such needs . |
| 19 | The possibilities of employing one discourse as a metaphor for another are first explored in Out . |
| 20 | But while resolving one puzzle about the greenhouse effect . |
| 21 | Properly done , absorbing one system into the other brings immediate savings , particularly from those systems used for processing large amounts of data . |
| 22 | Then , as his eyes fell to the way she was cradling one hand in the other , he added , frowning , ‘ You 're hurt . ’ |
| 23 | A set of five descriptors was then constructed for each variable , representing five levels of the variable and carrying scores from 1 to 5 . |
| 24 | I screamed and pulled with all my might , shaking my hands and my head and throwing myself backwards and over as I did so , banging one knee off the gun where it lay , fallen in the sand . |
| 25 | I share my car with my sister 's family — thus keeping one car off the road . |
| 26 | Keeping one end of the sleeve open , secure it to the blue side of the body . |
| 27 | Keeping one hand under the fondant for support , smooth it over the top of the cake with your other hand , easing the icing into all the hollows and indentations . |
| 28 | With practice it is possible to speed up the procedure by keeping one hand on the carriage and using the other to manipulate the stitches with the transfer tool . |
| 29 | The former requires a " net " composed of a 900 grid of large squares , separated by three right-angled lines , with the space between each line representing one quarter of the width of a square . |
| 30 | Danny Kelly , writing in the NME , said experiencing Gedge 's songs was like ‘ overhearing one side of a telephone conversation or catching edited highlights of an argument . ’ |