Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] a [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he is attempting to win a third title in the middleweight division but first he must win his European title fight against the tough Dutchman John Neslo today . |
| 2 | Now he is attempting to win a third title in the middleweight division but first he must win his European title fight against the tough Dutchman John Neslo today . |
| 3 | We were going to use a four-second snatch of The Hokey-Cokey , and were quoted £3,000 . |
| 4 | They are not speaking to each other , following a disagreement on the eighth night over whether or not Chris was going to have a third bottle of wine with dinner . |
| 5 | Langer is hoping to add a third major to his collection after winning at Augusta while Price , the US PGA champion , and recent Memorial Tournament winner , Paul Azinger , complete a high-powered threeball . |
| 6 | Other organizations : UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , executive secretary Adebayo Adedeji ; African Development Bank , president Babacar N'Diaye ; Francophone states including France [ for June 1990 summit in La Baule see p. 37524 ] ; Franc zone — members of the Union monétaire ouest-africaine use the franc of the Communauté financière africaine ( CFA franc ) whose central issuing bank is the Banque centrale des états de l'Afrique de l'ouest ( in Dakar , Senegal ) , while central African countries in the franc zone use the franc of the Co-opération financière en Afrique centrale , ( also known as the CFA franc ) with the same parity of 50 to the French franc , but whose central issuing bank is the Banque des états de l'Afrique central ( in Yaoundé , Cameroon ) ; Lusophone states — Portugal , Angola , Cape Verde , Guinea-Bissau , Mozambique , Sao Tomé and Príncipe — whose Foreign Ministers met on Nov. 24 , agreeing to hold a first summit in 1991 . |