Example sentences of "[vb past] to [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 2 | A large woman , who confessed to weighing fifteen stone , she championed the manufacture of outsize clothes at modest prices . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it was a worrying period , and for the first time in his life he occasionally resorted to taking one of my sleeping-tablets . |
| 4 | Thereafter , however , things became more difficult , so we took to having one of my research students living with us . |
| 5 | Raymond Cusick had hoped for six Daleks from his budget but in the end the money only ran to affording four . |