Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 2 | Two rounds of trumps can be drawn with the Ace and King , and then 3 rounds of Spades played trumping the last losing Spade in dummy . |
| 3 | I woke sensing the last one |
| 4 | Legislation in 1988 envisaged closing the first two of the country 's 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 and 1996 [ see p. 36161 ] . |
| 5 | The incident which led to the bans happened entering the last two furlongs of the You 'll Never Get Rich Handicap when Weaver , on eventual fourth Corn Futures , hampered Darley 's mount Love Jazz . |
| 6 | Kalchu finished weaving the last whitish length of woollen cloth to make a jacket and put his loom away . |
| 7 | When they moved into this house in January 1945 Edie began writing the first of two consecutive five-year diaries . |
| 8 | As he began pouring the fifth , the body stirred , and Litaw 's father said : ‘ That 's enough , I 'm being scalded . ’ |
| 9 | With more violent shakes of the head , Eleanor began demolishing the second tissue . |
| 10 | When she returned to the table and began scooping the first of the curd into a mould , they felt her eyes burning into them , all three of them . |
| 11 | Sophie nodded as she finished examining the last one . |
| 12 | Only once has he come close to losing his rag , when publicly embarrassed by his press secretary , Julie Hall , as she admitted giving the first name of the little girl at the centre of the health election broadcast row to the press . |
| 13 | She may have misheard the word as dictated , but it 's much more likely that as she started writing the first syllable , she almost automatically shifted the word across to one she knows ( and can spell ! coffee causes problems , usually ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record . |
| 15 | We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew . |
| 16 | Motivated by the belief that an improved course would bring in more members , the plans for 1915 included altering the 5th and 12th greens and ‘ if time permits ’ enlarging the 1st and 17th ( combined ) greens . |
| 17 | But when I joined the RSPB in 1964 as their Shetland representative , I began the process of getting to know the islands better , and this included making the first of many visits to Fair Isles . |
| 18 | But then , only three people in the whole piazza remembered seeing the first one ! |
| 19 | Governors said reopening the sixth form would increase parental choice and win back pupils from independent schools . |
| 20 | But he denied killing the third member of the film crew , Mr della Casa 's wife , Rosanna , who has never been found , said the newspaper . |
| 21 | According to the newspaper La Nacion , Delia Adela Guevara de Palazzo missed becoming the first victim of space debris by 2 metres when a 1.5 kilogram fragment of the space station landed in her back garden . |
| 22 | Some in the RPF leadership contemplated calling the Third Force 's bluff and proposing apparentements with MRP candidates . |
| 23 | Tom was at Swinbrook Manor and Dolly had gone to the farm to prepare some bread she intended baking the next day . |
| 24 | I 've written the whole section as an identical pattern of pull-offs ( with one note in parentheses , because I think that 's what Cliff was aiming for , but missed getting the first lick on string 1 to sound out — there were no drop-ins on recording sessions in 1956 ! ) . |
| 25 | They had booked a Toyota camper van and told the hire company they intended spending the next three weeks touring New Zealand . |
| 26 | We reached the yard and stood watching the last preparations as usual . |