Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after seeing second half goals from Anders Limpar and Ian Wright end his side 's Premier League duck , Graham said : ‘ When Arsenal are n't doing well the media seems to revel in it . |
| 2 | And veteran player David McCreery could also figure in Feetham 's future after announcing last night he has played his last game for Hartlepool United . |
| 3 | The company is paying an interim dividend of 0.2p , after passing last year 's final , against 0.4p in the comparable period . |
| 4 | After attempting last month 's first 8-bars of the 16-bar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day , we 'll crack on with the second half this month . |
| 5 | ‘ After leading last year I then relaxed , partly because I did n't know what to expect , and ended up missing the four-round cut by one shot . ’ |
| 6 | must wait to find out whether they have won promotion from North-East Two after securing fourth place with a 1210 win away to second-placed Thornensians . |
| 7 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 8 | The SAR ( South Asian Religious ) News service has officially inaugurated its new offices in Bombay , India , after moving last year from New Delhi . |
| 9 | Trainer Francois Doumen is clearly considering plundering more foreign prizes after contesting next week 's Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 10 | Titmuss , who only returned to the club this season after spending last year with the Telford Tigers , blitzed four goals inside 14 minutes of the opening period . |
| 11 | After starting last year with net debt of £6.3m , it now has net cash of almost £4m . |
| 12 | After making first animal feed ( korm ) and only later cabbage soup ( shchi ) for the family , she may finally turn to the work that occupies the womenfolk from November until Lent — spinning flax from that blue-flowered , frail-leaved plant plucked by the root in handfuls in the August of 1921 . |
| 13 | DERRY will this year host the Glor na nGael prize-giving presentation after winning first place in a competition to promote Irish in the community . |
| 14 | Jackie Simmonds recounts her experiences of The Artist 's painting trip to Bali , in which she participated after winning first prize in our Art in Nature competition |
| 15 | A BUTCHER 'S shop was devastated by a gas explosion less than 24 hours after winning first prize in a national meat competition . |
| 16 | After exploring last month 's triplet combinations , you 'll now be aware that there are several ways to apply the shuffle groove . |
| 17 | After beating last year 's champion , Andrew Castle , 7–5 , 6–3 at Telford , Bates , 30 , declared : ‘ There are young players coming along who are hitting the ball well — what they need to learn is how to compete . |
| 18 | Britain 's Clare Wood , still buoyant after beating tenth seed Rosalyn Fairbank-Nideffer in the first round , continued her good form with a gutsy 5-7 , 7-5 , 6-2 victory over American Kathy Rinaldi . |
| 19 | McDermott has been given the all clear after missing last week 's game at Portsmouth because of an eye injury and Childs out for a month faces a late check on an injured groin . |
| 20 | Regular keeper Keith Mouncher returns after missing last week 's home defeat by Blyth , but Keith Muckle , Darren Brewis and Barrie Wilson are all ruled out . |
| 21 | Just 48 hours after dumping fourth seed Goran Ivanisevic out of the Stella Artois championships , the 23-year-old from Southampton lost 3–6 7–5 6–3 to one of the few players at Queen 's Club this week ranked lower than his 176 . |
| 22 | After grabbing second place on the grid alongside Alain Prost — who can clinch the title with a win |
| 23 | Perhaps Somalia has more in common with Chad , another desert full of warlords , where the toppling of one gang by another caused no more than a bit of looting last month . |
| 24 | Objectivity Inc , Menlo Park , California , said it closed its third round of financing last week , an exercise that got started in January . |
| 25 | JOHN McGRATH quit as manager of struggling Third Division Halifax Town yesterday . |
| 26 | The majority of Wear Valley 's GPs do n't have anything like 7,000 patients due to Wear Valley being a rural community and so are in danger of becoming second class citizens . |
| 27 | And France 's answer to Disneyland — a £69m Asterix theme park in Picardy — received its millionth visitor within months of opening last spring . |
| 28 | NIGEL MANSELL 'S old boss Frank Williams will be waiting on the sidelines today as motor sport 's top brass sit down in Paris to find a way of saving next year 's Grand Prix calendar and prevent his Williams team from paying a massive fine . |
| 29 | She also wanted to have a Sunday dinner , whenever possible , in the style of Willis , who followed the bargemen 's custom of serving first sultana pudding with gravy , and then the roast . |
| 30 | The World Bank was last year reported to be in the throes of an anguished debate between its environmental unit and its energy department over the best way of enlisting Third World support for curbing greenhouse gases . |