Example sentences of "[v-ing] only [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Alderney he finally and grudgingly got to work on his autobiography , Basingstoke Boy , using only the third person . |
| 2 | Super Sally joined an exclusive club by becoming only the fifth British girl athlete to strike gold and only the second ever on the track , following Ann Packer in Tokyo 28 years ago . |
| 3 | The difference in the bowling attacks then became rather noticeable ; by soon after tea on the third day , West Indies had rattled up 411 for 5 when Lloyd declared , with 50 from Fredericks , 135 from Richards , and Greenidge becoming only the second West Indian after Headley to score a century in each innings against England . |
| 4 | The XVIth triennial General Conference of International Council of Museums ( ICOM ) will take place in Quebec City ( 19–26 September ) , marking only the second time in its forty-six year history that the group has met in North America . |
| 5 | A second run of the computer began with the phrase : Y YVMQKZPFJXWVHGLAWFVCHQXYOPY , passed through ( again reporting only every tenth generation ) : Y YVMQKSPFTHWSHLIKEFV HQYSPY YTHINKSPITXISHLIKEFA WQYSEY METHINKS IT ISSLIKE A WEFSEY METHINKS IT ISBLIKE A WEASES METHINKS IT ISJLIKE A WEASEO METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEP and reached the target phrase in generation 64 . |
| 6 | Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard . |
| 7 | German Greenpeace , the second-largest branch of of Greenpeace International , has been criticized for spending only a third of donations on campaigns and putting much of the rest aside . |
| 8 | Eastleigh is now 5lb better off but he went to Doncaster with the benefit of three all-weather runs this year , and Big Leap , having only the third race of his career there , should confirm the form . |
| 9 | While the bigger names were following the European clay circuit , Korda was reaching only the second singles final of his career in Tampa . |
| 10 | You can extend this kind of exercise almost endlessly , but it is vitally important to use the form of the same complete up-to-time sentence for each exercise , leaving only the last bit that changes . |