Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My paternal grandfather was a petty officer who , after keeping Edward the Seventh 's Royal Yacht spick and span — his trade was painter — died early from an illness acquired at the Defence of Ladysmith . |
| 2 | So Patrick had no use for Edward Balliol ; but , by aiding Edward the Third , almost certainly saw himself as in a position to displace the unsuccessful Balliol and himself take over as King of Scots , with English support . |
| 3 | I was full of joy at the prospect of meeting Agnes the next day . |
| 4 | Right I just wondered if you would mention my animal charities day at St John 's Church Hall , on this coming Saturday the sixth of November . |
| 5 | See they 're still saying April the twelfth . |
| 6 | The partnership between Campbell and former Crystal Palace striker Ian Wright has produced seven goals in five games , making Arsenal the First Division 's top scorers . |
| 7 | IBM reckons the 970 achieves a SPECmark rating of 100.3 , making IBM the first to produce a RISC system which scores a century on the benchmark , and that it also does 100.9 transactions per second on the Transaction Processing Performance Council 's TPC-A benchmark . |
| 8 | Myanma acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , Radio Burma reported on Dec. 3 ; it said that the instrument of accession was deposited with the US State Department on Dec. 2 , making Myanma the 154th state to sign the treaty . |
| 9 | Making Tucker the 23rd opponent out of 23 to lose to Lewis as a professional is the champion 's main objective . |
| 10 | When using ABC the first thing to do is : |
| 11 | And you are going to be going skiing January the fourth which is not many days away . |
| 12 | One night , a Wednesday , I was told that I was leaving Holloway the next day to go up to Risley remand centre because my judge was at Sheffield . |