Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Symington had reached compacts with some of the tribes , allowing them 250 machines each , when the larger tribes took him to court to try to get more . |
| 2 | There are various ways of using them one way , to look through which yo , which you have to see the light , you know , otherwise you wo n't see it ! |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll be building them one day , I tell you , ’ he said softly . |
| 4 | And Anne Marie Kelly ( Mrs Braun ) writes : ‘ It 's hard to describe the joy of seeing my six foot son playing lego with Emma Kirkby 's little Nicholas ! ’ |
| 5 | Otherwise it is rather like spending several days journeying to a famous tourist site , but when we get there only allowing ourselves 20 minutes to see it . |
| 6 | I am fully rebuilding my 1974 Range Rover and would like to fit Vogue alloy wheels . |
| 7 | Already , it seems , industry was coming to be concentrated on the north side of the Stour — Dedham lies opposite East Bergholt , a booming village — and that the gap was opening which forty-five years later was to be filled by the arrival of the Dutch bringing the techniques of the ‘ New Draperies ’ . |
| 8 | Binning their Two Tone pork-pie hats , the kids went wild for The Cult With No Name , aka Peacock Punk aka — New Romance ! |
| 9 | When the commission unveiled its tough plans for shaking up the beer industry in March , many industry watchers predicted that Whitbread , forced into a choice between keeping its six breweries or freeing two-thirds of its 6,250 pubs from the obligation to sell its beers , would decide to keep full control of its pubs and pull out of production . |
| 10 | The comments come as American negotiates a new contract with the union representing its 21,600 flight attendants . |
| 11 | He turned and lunged at her , stabbing her three times , the last thrust piercing her heart . |
| 12 | Shortly before returning their 10-2 majority verdicts , eight members of the jury asked for headache tablets . |
| 13 | When he got to Bec , Anselm at once spotted his quality , and he was soon sending back to Lanfranc a glowing account of Osbern 's progress : he was ‘ growing daily in knowledge and serenity ’ ; and the friendship between him and Anselm had become so close that they could not be separated without tearing their two souls apart . |
| 14 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 15 | He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded , hurling him 120 feet into a wall . |
| 16 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 17 | He still finds time to race motor bikes , as well as keeping his nineteen O four De Dion Bouton in tune . |
| 18 | His skin is somewhat winter-pallid , thickening a little , but nevertheless disguising his 54 years . |
| 19 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 20 | A three-judge panel of the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Mordechai Vanunu , a former technician who revealed secrets about Israel 's nuclear weapons programme to the British Sunday Times in 1986 , upholding his 1988 conviction for treason and espionage and 18-year prison sentence [ see pp. 34773-74 ; 35922 ] . |
| 21 | WPC Sue Brown was chasing a man suspected of theft down this street , when she confronted him he turned nasty , squaring his 6 ft 2 to her 5 ft 1 . |
| 22 | Even the programmer himself has difficulty in driving it two days later ! |
| 23 | ‘ What a hard working treasure you are , to be sure , ’ Dr Neil had said , walking his two women back to Vetch Street , tipping his soft hat to those who were happy to greet the young doctor . |
| 24 | For a moment , Melissa was tempted to put the poor creature 's mind at rest by revealing what DCI Harris had told her , but immediately rejected the notion . |
| 25 | Do we have an officer co-ordinating our 1992 effort ? |
| 26 | The Russian , who has confirmed herself this year as one of the world 's greatest athletes by setting four world records , is said to have tested positive at a meeting in Lievin , France , last month after equalling her 60 metres hurdles world record . |
| 27 | The extra sappers were in place in a week , and the big hooped bombards and mortars , repositioned , were firing their three-hundred pounders as frequently as bombards were ever able to do , with a hundred balls beside each to do it with . |
| 28 | Furthermore , I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive . |
| 29 | In addition , 88open says that software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 30 | In addition , 88open says software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |