Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 2 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 3 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 4 | They chatted quietly about old times — and daring for the first time to talk about the future . |
| 5 | Finally he spent an hour from 1630 to 1730 in his office finishing off his paperwork and checking on the next day 's programme . |
| 6 | If you use a pattern such as a basic 1x1 pattern ( that 's one hole punched , one hole blank , all across the card and alternating on the next row ) the resulting fabric has very short floats , not floats at all really ( swatch 6 ) . |
| 7 | The ensemble includes two flutes , one doubling piccolo : Mozart never wrote a serenade for wind using flutes , but of course The Magic Flute there had to be flutes , Papageno 's pipes too , represented at the very beginning of the first movement , and returning in the second movement , by the piccolo . |
| 8 | British politics in the 1930s were often disillusioning for the labour movement , starting with the defection of the Labour Party 's leadership and the Party 's electoral eclipse , and ending with the Second World War , which destroyed the party 's hope of peace through disarmament and the League of Nations . |
| 9 | Twice Michael had lashed out at him and hurt him , only to be contrite and loving in the next breath . |
| 10 | I sat with one eye on the clock , waiting my turn and listening to the twenty-fifth rendering of ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 11 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | I 'm living alone now and looking for the next relationship , which I hope will be the last one . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The multinationals have moved to other countries because of the civil war and according to the last report , in May 1983 , there were only four factories still operating in the multinational industrial parks . |
| 15 | Last night , she said she would be taking a play to the Edinburgh Festival and directing for the first time . |
| 16 | They left within two days of his release , leaving me tired , dazed , relieved and waiting for the Second Son to come ‘ home ’ for yet another week-end . |
| 17 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 18 | They 've got to keep working and going for the second ball . |
| 19 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 20 | When we have left behind the turbulence of adolescence and shed some of the more harrowing demands of responsibility for making careers and caring for the next generation , we may seek opportunities to assess our lives and face its later stages with some serenity . |
| 21 | If learning to read is regarded as a continual process of making more and more sense of written language , advancing with every reading experience and beginning with the first insight that print is meaningful , then it will be seen that there can never be anything specific for a child to be ready for … . |
| 22 | Your friend awaits you , I think , ’ he added , nodding towards the courtyard where Iris was standing beside Melissa 's car , and speaking for the first time in faultless English instead of French . |
| 23 | In the conversations , he talks of preparing Mahler 's Fifth Symphony over two years of play-throughs , rehearsals , and recording before the first concert performance in Berlin . |
| 24 | Unilinx services should be up and running by the first quarter of next year . |
| 25 | He turned as though suddenly remembering something , returned , passing me again and stopping on the next corner . |
| 26 | What emerges is a kind of fundamentalist dynastic priesthood associated with the principle of a Davidic Messiah and extending from the second century B.C. through the period covered by the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 27 | Thus we find unc and dividing by the last element , we find as a starting column co for iteration with A1 unc The iterations give us successive columns as in Table 1 . |
| 28 | Using equations ( 6.9 ) and ( 6. 10 ) the required Poisson values can be calculated very rapidly ; they are particularly suited to a pocket calculator , as the starting value can be calculated and then modified by multiplying the contents of the calculator by the packing density and dividing by the next value of ‘ x ’ : 1 when the calculator holds p(0) , 2 when it holds p(1) and so on . |
| 29 | There are burial chambers and standing stones from the Bronze Age , Iron Age forts , and tramways from mining and quarrying in the last century . |
| 30 | 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 . |