Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example . |
| 2 | He appeared in July ‘ 85 , ambling down the 18th fairway at Royal St George 's . |
| 3 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 4 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
| 5 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 6 | As soon as she closed her eyes a dark , austerely handsome face filled her mind , crowding out the last of her lingering fright , and when she eventually managed to get back to sleep it was to dream of Michele Lorenzo once more . |
| 7 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 8 | Photo : Suttons Looking down the 15th hole in the early 1970's . |
| 9 | Work your way to the end of the plot — top spit into the bottom , bottom to the top — filling in the last trench with the barrowed soil . |
| 10 | The classic one involves picking up stitches with your transfer tool , knitting about seven or eight rows , picking up the next three stitches and repeating along your edge . |
| 11 | The program proceeds by incrementing POINTER , picking up the next delay value from the acceleration table and waiting until the step interval is complete , before generating the next excitation change . |
| 12 | ‘ This must be the confession , ’ said Mr Utterson to himself , picking up the third and largest envelope . |
| 13 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 14 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 15 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 16 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 17 | The cast , all in full costume , are standing near their initial cue points , eyes riveted on one man , the sweep of whose arm will tell them to start acting out the next episode of Doctor Who . |
| 18 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 19 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 20 | He fell twice , going down the second time across a litter of boxes , and losing the gun . |
| 21 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 22 | then going down the next list September , chief , successful |
| 23 | I was gritting my teeth , thinking , ‘ Thank god we 're going down the 18th . ’ |
| 24 | Then what the guys did going down the 18th was incredible . |
| 25 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 26 | That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her . |
| 27 | You do n't , you got ta , you got ta past there and say go past there and say you 're going up the next time |
| 28 | Cleaning Up the Second Hand Car Trade |
| 29 | ‘ M'm-h 'm , ’ I said , cleaning up the last of the stew . |
| 30 | They reached the next landing and swung themselves around it , clambering up the next set of stairs . |