Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My support for Leeds is just as great as my hatred of the scum , so I for one will be rooting for a 1 nil defeat on saturday , with Leeds hopefully going on to do well in the FA cup . |
| 2 | The duke president of Youth Clubs UK , catering for a million young people said the scheme was long overdue . |
| 3 | Again , quote Country Living when booking for a 10 per cent discount . |
| 4 | There are 2 local lads this year ; Edward Haddon from Charlbury started rowing as a 9 year old at school in Oxford then the boat race was just a dream . |
| 5 | Comrades ' Stephen Fettis , returning after a one match suspension , was shown the yellow card for kicking the ball away after 13 minutes . |
| 6 | My head is banging like a twenty year old car engine . ’ |
| 7 | Dryden led from start to finish opening with a 75 and then roaring him with a 71 to win by six shots from Blyth 's Gary Wilson . |
| 8 | The English Schools Trophy is effectively the schoolboy F A Cup , played for by about two hundred district teams throughout the country , and ending with a two legged final , at which Oxford have appeared on four different occasions ; the earliest back in nineteen O eight , and the most recent in nineteen seventy four , when unfortunately , as with all the previous three , we were defeated , on that occasion by Manchester boys , yet er the home leg was played in front of a crowd of twelve thousand people , which was the highest recorded crowd at the Manor that season . |
| 9 | Checking into Air Canada 's Hospitality Class is like checking into a five star hotel . |
| 10 | The little Third Division side caused a sensation at Anfield a fortnight ago by storming into a 3-0 lead in the first leg of their Coca-Cola Cup tie . |
| 11 | After 4 attempts to play the 5th round tie , the match with Hythe eventually went ahead last night , ending in a one all draw , so Abingdon face a trip to the Kent Coast on Monday at 7.30 . |
| 12 | After returning from a 30 month tour with UB40 , I believe that Birmingham is establishing itself as Europe 's leading city of the arts and media . |
| 13 | James Fanshawe 's filly was showing improved form in storming to a six lengths win from Absalom 's Pillar . |
| 14 | With an underground fire contributing to a 50,000 tonne fall in ore milled at Libanon , losses at the mine jumped from R1.92m to R3.18m . |
| 15 | China refused to accept back 71 people who entered Hong Kong illegally and accused the colony of reneging on a 1982 agreement on immigration policy . |
| 16 | After a dispute over whether the current agreement would end in 1991 or 1992 , an issue which remained unresolved , the talks quickly became rancorous as the Filipino delegation accused the USA of reneging on a 1988 base review agreement which included a commitment to provide $481,000,000 in annual US aid to the Philippines . |
| 17 | Well how on earth do you start spot checking on a hundred and twenty eight thousand companies you know , the first nine hundred and ninety five that you do may be the ones that are running perfectly . |
| 18 | In contrast European nations have allowed contracting companies to keep their R&D findings secret from other companies ; with this kind of practice occurring across a dozen nations , European defence R&D is often wasted as well as fragmented . |
| 19 | The Westminster Press cost budget is now adjusted and they 're currently trading at a nine percent margin which would be ten percent if it was n't for the er , expenditure on er , Yorkshire on Sunday er , the circulation of which is growing very nicely . |
| 20 | For example , a structure consisting of a 10 character string , an 8 bit number and a reference to a similar structure can be constructed . |
| 21 | Our equipment , brought solely for a ‘ recce ’ and consisting of a seven mm rope and two ice screws , suddenly seemed a little inadequate . |
| 22 | Using this major exhibition as a sounding board , the range , consisting of an 80 wool 20 nylon twist in sixteen colours was shown to potential customers . |
| 23 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 24 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 25 | Team Millar rider McWilliams , who is still looking for a 500 Grand Prix finish , had a constructive finish and felt he could have been higher in the table , but for the rain . |
| 26 | ‘ First off , ’ I said , thinking as I spoke , ‘ I 'm looking for a four-by-four . |
| 27 | I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year 's import quota . |
| 28 | Manager Lennie Lawrence is looking for a 20,000 crowd and three points against the runaway leaders . |
| 29 | How much would you pay for that , if that were you , if you were thirty , looking for a thirty year plan , guaranteed to keep in line with inflation , thousand pounds a month . |
| 30 | You 're always looking for a four on a par-5 , but at that stage you 'd take it as long as your main opposition has n't gone away . |