Example sentences of "the [adv] [v-ing] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently retired DCC Michael McAtamney was the longest serving police officer in the UK with 45 years service . |
| 2 | It has the longest lasting poster life in the Underground and the original will last forever . ’ |
| 3 | Recently he had had to have a catheter fitted for some medical problem and because of his absconding behaviour , the nurses had hit on a really original wheeze — to force him to carry the slowly filling urine bag in one of those four-milk crates one sometimes sees on doorsteps . |
| 4 | GEM of the East Anglian coast is the only working Garratt locomotive in the British Isles . |
| 5 | Furthermore , many studies have shown that the naturally occurring relapse rate of duodenal ulcers is considerably reduced after eradication . |
| 6 | A newer , less conventional treatment is Ketsugo , a spray-on lotion containing Isolutrol , the naturally occurring detergent property of shark 's bile . |
| 7 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly this became the least selling Smiths record of them all . |
| 9 | It is probable that the " melon " , the bulging dome on the front of a dolphin 's head , looking — pleasing coincidence — like the weirdly bulging radar dome of a Nimrod " advance-warning " surveillance aircraft , has something to do with beaming the sonar signals forwards , but its exact workings are not understood . |
| 10 | The solemnly ticking grandfather clock by the door said two minutes to the half hour when Charles heard the Bishop approaching . |
| 11 | Statistical accounts of those whose benefits have been cut under the Actively Seeking Work legislation to date were provided . |