Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One try resulted in a pregnancy which ended in a miscarriage , but the couple are saving for a second try . |
| 2 | Wivenhoe Town have never won the competition and are looking for a first success to complete a meteoric rise to the summit of the Essex non-league football hierarchy . |
| 3 | Soccer : Border League Wormingford FC are looking for a first team manager for next season . |
| 4 | But if you are looking for a 21st century Polo , you will have to wait at least three years until the genuinely all-new one . |
| 5 | They had been staying at a 16th century chateau near Compeigne . |
| 6 | Now they appear to be looking to a Second Division centre forward to do the business . |
| 7 | On June 21 Kurt Waldheim , 72 , announced that he would not be standing for a second term as President in the elections due in 1992 . |
| 8 | In short , we should be arguing for a third zero within NATO . |
| 9 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 10 | Joseph lead the team towards the children 's section and as they were passing through a second explosion was felt . |
| 11 | Medau MArdle ( Norfolkese for ‘ gossip ’ ) is the title of a Medau newsheet launched last year for Norfolk members , edited by Janet Burns — so successful that readers were calling for a second edition a bare three weeks later . |
| 12 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 13 | Sunderland were playing against a fourth team ( whose tenure in the First Division was not in doubt ) . |
| 14 | You want to know what is happening in a Third World trouble-spot . |
| 15 | Digital Equipment Corp chief executive Robert Palmer has reiterated that the company is looking for a second source to manufacture its Alpha RISC chips . |
| 16 | The estate agent is selling for a third party and it would be totally wrong that his client should suffer because of the false window-dressing of his agent . |
| 17 | Peter , a 55-year-old distribution engineer at the plant , says his wife believes he is going through a second childhood . |
| 18 | Coton , the City goalkeeper voted the League 's No 1 by his fellow professionals , thwarted Speed and Fairclough with exceptional saves , while Wallace twice squandered the kind of opportunities which earlier this season he was accepting without a second thought . |
| 19 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 20 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |