Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.55:IMPRESSIVE Mackeson winner Tipping Tim is worth opposing on an 8lb higher mark with the ground softer than he likes . |
| 2 | then they , it 'll be a mega band for singing for an hour , hour and a half , but what they 've speculated is that , Queen 's gon na be on there for an hour , hour and a half and then the |
| 3 | Little is known of his childhood , though it is said he developed a talent for drawing at an early age . |
| 4 | These are fictions about experimenting with an impecunious and occasionally feckless life of adventure , and then giving it up . |
| 5 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 6 | This did not seem a propitious moment for launching into an explanation of the possible repercussions of their lovemaking — and especially when she was having difficulty thinking . |
| 7 | Until , that is , he realises what he has done , and feels cross with himself for walking into an emotional trap of his own unconscious devising . |
| 8 | Similarly , if one is being asked a series of routine questions for some purpose such as applying for an insurance policy , one might reply to each question of a series like ‘ Have you ever been in prison ? ’ , |
| 9 | It is clear , I think , that this argument would , if successful , turn the argument against a global scepticism about understanding into an argument against a weaker but still global scepticism about knowledge . |
| 10 | Darcy , in second place overnight , took 74 and O'Connor fell from third to 25th after crashing to an embarrassing 80 . |
| 11 | A 65-year-old employee from Saverland , in Clayton Street , Newcastle , suffered a broken nose after struggling with an armed robber . |
| 12 | Solbourne , forced to reorganise its operations after struggling in an already overcrowded sparc-compatible market , cut its losses and now sells its Sparc-based systems through indirect sales channels only in Europe . |
| 13 | Ellery Hanley is back at loose forward for the Regal Trophy semi-final with Castleford at Headingley today , while the New Zealand centre Kevin Iro also returns after recovering from an operation for cartilage trouble . |
| 14 | After recovering from an attack of shallow breathing he recovered and one nurse said he was smiling and cooing in his cot . |
| 15 | Shortly after appearing on an independent television programme to discuss his views ( no BBC programme invited him on ) , Altrincham was hit in the face by a furious official of the League of Empire Loyalists . |
| 16 | THREE midwives suspended after a two-day-old baby died in hospital at Keighley , Yorks , will resume work on Monday after appearing before an inquiry yesterday . |
| 17 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |
| 18 | After training as an actress , she taught herself to paint , which she has continued to do for the past thirty years . |
| 19 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 20 | He had a love of cars at a very early age and after serving as an engineer in the Royal Australian Air Force during the war , he started racing midget cars in his home country , winning the Australian Midget Car Championship in the five year between 1947–51 . |
| 21 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 22 | After listening to an eighteenth-century description of their village and its green , one class made a model of the village green as it was about 1790 . |
| 23 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 24 | After attempting for an hour to storm the church , those who were still alive to tell the tale turned back . |
| 25 | Three days later we reached Bilen , after travelling across an extensive plain cut up by dry water-courses and marked by low rocky ridges . |
| 26 | When the plotters decided to abandon their scheme after failing in an attempt to dig a tunnel under the House of Lords , no-one was more concerned than Salisbury . |
| 27 | Rita decided to quell her anxieties , after hearing about an amnesty program for illegal immigrants , by turning herself in to immigration authorities . |
| 28 | LANCASHIRE were facing an uphill battle as underdogs Leicestershire set their sights on a Lord 's return after putting in an excellent morning 's work at Grace Road . |
| 29 | The home side set their sights on a Lord 's return after putting in an excellent morning 's work . |
| 30 | Jon Booth , 25 , appears in a Kay 's mail order catalogue after responding to an ad for hunky men wanting a taste of the fashion world . |