Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 2 | In other words , nothing relating to the second NTSB recommendation in the Windsor accident report had been done . |
| 3 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 4 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 5 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 6 | Someone must have had a word with the band about their playing after the last tour and subsequent departure from east west Records because this show as a 200pc better affair . |
| 7 | In opposition to this , Mr. Whitaker , on behalf of the third defendant , pointed out that this is not a case where the third defendant is himself asserting against the third party a cause of action in contract or tort . |
| 8 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 9 | I have a good old tuck-in at the school lunch and that keeps me going until the next morning . ’ |
| 10 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 11 | Now the reason this is a bit messy , is that at that stage , depended on which one you get out of here , you putting in the second bag . |
| 12 | and that 's can I phoning round everybody keeping tabs , what are you planning over the next three months , aha |
| 13 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 14 | you believe , well what are we looking at here , page seventy eight , it 's been produced by er for are we looking at the first brochure , or an updated version or what ? |
| 15 | We looking at the first meeting to make sure . |
| 16 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 17 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 18 | I imagine that the brunt of this will be borne by younger voters , many of them voting for the first time , who possibly do not realise that in addition to voting they must also pay poll tax . |
| 19 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |
| 20 | She could feel him shrinking by the second . |
| 21 | Whe he has a chest infection you can hear him wheezing from the next room |
| 22 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 23 | Were they talking about the first steamship crossing the Atlantic ? |
| 24 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 25 | In his Championship-winning days , Smith would be without goals for four or five games then find them flowing in the next five or so . |
| 26 | The Alte Post is old , parts of it dating from the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 27 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 28 | So look where 's he going to the next day ? |
| 29 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 30 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |