Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The festival is good for the economy , bringing in a million pounds to the area . |
| 2 | I can remember several years ago bringing in a seventeen year old baby sitter to sit with Susannah , and I heard thirty bob . |
| 3 | McClure was in his usual brilliant form opening up a 7-1 lead after five ends and then extending that to 14-3 at the halfway stage . |
| 4 | At Worksop Gloucestershire were put in to bat by Nottinghamshire and are now ( 239 for 6 ) two hundred and thirty nine for six , Athey knocking up a hundred and thirty two . |
| 5 | In the Old World , the Omomyidae were highly successful , crowding out the two other families , who were only able to make a living by becoming nocturnal . |
| 6 | Frequently we abstract from this covenant by singling out the Ten Commandments and ignoring much of the remainder of the Mosaic code . |
| 7 | Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford . |
| 8 | It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time . |
| 9 | Stan Burton , back to his best , had one shot to spare against the successful John Lynch picking up a three on the last end to win 1716 in a quality contest . |
| 10 | MELROSE , this season 's Scottish champions , added the Border League trophy to their collection last night by picking up the two points they needed under the floodlights at Mansfield Park . |
| 11 | Things have been quiet … no messages for 24 hours after picking up the 49 that were waiting yesterday . |
| 12 | He skimmed the accompanying text , which added little to what Francesca had already told him , filling up the two columns with a recital of Tristram 's career beginning with his legendary recording of ‘ Panis Angelicus ’ as a thirteen-year-old treble at St Joe 's . |
| 13 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
| 14 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 15 | Some are heaps of stones in a number of characteristic shapes , dating back a thousand years or more . |
| 16 | Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business . |
| 17 | In the course of writing out the 18 April document the deceased asked what ‘ Sharon 's , ’ i.e. Miss Hughes 's , address was . |
| 18 | MICHAEL ROBERTS was in form at Pontefract yesterday , rattling off a 959-1 treble to make 190 — a lead of 30 over Pat Eddery . |
| 19 | Quinn was racing down the three flights of stairs to the lobby-level . |
| 20 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 21 | These were the corporal 's final words before he went round the barracks turning down every one of the gas lights . |
| 22 | To raise themselves by pulling down the Seven . |
| 23 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
| 24 | In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged . |
| 25 | The annual number of night visits was obtained by adding up the four quarterly totals ending in September in each year . |
| 26 | The simplest method of calculating the price index for 1985 is to find the total of the unit prices charged in 1984 ( by adding up the three prices for that year ) and the total of the unit prices charged in 1985 and then to express the latter as a percentage of the former . |
| 27 | It is currently turning out the 146 high-wing short-haul airliner . |
| 28 | Zander promises to put Solaris on a regular schedule from now on with releases , major or minor , going out every six months . |
| 29 | The latest results mark a milestone for Sherwood , which now claims to be Britain 's biggest sock-maker , pumping out a million pairs a week , and is a supplier to that favourite of underwear retailers , Marks & Spencer . |
| 30 | It was like going back a hundred years . |