Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [v-ing] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 2 | Originally named the Laboratory Equipment Corporation LECO is based in St Joseph , Michigan , USA and started life by developing and introducing the first volumetric carbon determinator for the iron and steel industry . |
| 3 | The development of a separate manpower policy agency seems to have been carried out with all these motives in minds The University Grants Committee has been seen as serving the second and third purposes . |
| 4 | He was a pioneer photographer , inventing and selling the first popular exposure meter , and his natural empathy with the countryside is reflected in his photographs . |
| 5 | Actor and singer Jimmy Nail , who is producing and directing the next series of his show , is offering would-be actors just £30 to appear . |
| 6 | Turning to the specific example of a continuous square wave of amplitude a and period T , it can be represented in terms of by The validity of this particular harmonic representation is demonstrated in figure 11.1 where it is shown that summing the first three terms of expression ( 11.2 ) produces a waveform not far removed from square . |
| 7 | But I did get arrested while making The Third Man in Vienna . ’ |
| 8 | We are now validating and approving the last of the three batches of courses for the new system and , apart from a few special cases , this will mean that all students beginning an advanced course after the summer will be enrolling for a modular , rather than traditional , course . |
| 9 | McKinsey and Price Waterhouse also left the search industry , with only Peat 's — of all the firms identified as forming the second phase of the history of headhunting — remaining in the business . |
| 10 | This pattern is reversed when knitting the second wing . |
| 11 | As the dawn came she was weak with exhaustion and relief , watching and willing the first barely perceptible lightening of the sky . |