Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She split up with her husband some months ago and is now struggling to cope with two young children while facing continual abuse . |
| 2 | Matt Williams seized on some poor Cubs pitching to drive in four of the Giants runs and Will Clark lifting his series batting average to .625 when he reached base on three of his four at-bats . |
| 3 | He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another . |
| 4 | A typical consumer reaction is summed up by a correspondent writing earlier this year in the New Scientist concerning trends in digital car radio design : ‘ Previously it was simple , while driving to cope with two big knobs and six decent-sized push buttons to get a useful selection of stations . |
| 5 | If you 're applying to work with three to five aged children then you write references |
| 6 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
| 7 | The company is looking to hire between 20–30 to work on Airbus wing production . |
| 8 | The company is looking to hire between 20–30 to work on Airbus wing production . |
| 9 | They had sat there hating one another , quarrelling in bitter voices , not wanting to look at one another . |
| 10 | Sterling is looking to part with one or more of the aircraft in an attempt to recover some of the costs incurred in bringing the aircraft back to civilisation . |
| 11 | Continue to use the essential oils in your bath , remembering to alternate between two or three different anti-cellulite essences . |
| 12 | A 30minute set seemed to contain only two distinct songs , preferring to veer from one mantra-like rhythm to the next . |
| 13 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 14 | I mean , my concern here is that if you 've got a procedure that 's got nine points in it , and effectively we 're going to go through one , two , three , five of those nine points and say either this does not apply to access or access does it differently . |
| 15 | What 's going to go into thirty five ? |
| 16 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 17 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 18 | This year they 're going to go for four thousand . |
| 19 | Erm oh we 'll they 're going to go for twenty P plus cost of the stamped addressed return envelope |
| 20 | Until I re and , well until my husband retired at sixty and I thought well if he 's going to retire at sixty , I might as well retire , you see . |
| 21 | These laws have been in force for hundreds of years — and they 're one of the things that are going to disappear in 1992 , at least in Germany . |
| 22 | I 'm sure it 's going to come off one day . |
| 23 | So it 's going to come to two fours so that comes to ? |
| 24 | nine take away one is going to come to eight . |
| 25 | Now fraction of total fraction of total So this is going to come to fifty over one fifty . |
| 26 | And that 's going to come to three out of twenty eight . |
| 27 | Erm as well as that , if you drop that , that 's going to smash as one of my colleagues discovered . |
| 28 | ‘ With 600 people there , who 's going to worry about one more ? ’ |
| 29 | We have started a bereavement group in our area — two afternoons a month and one evening session — which we are going to evaluate in six months ' time . |
| 30 | To explore this problem , I 'm going to talk about two short novels that have jealousy as their central , dominant feeling but are in all other respects wholly different from one another . |