Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 2 | The crew were kept occupied completing the many jobs that should have been finished before putting out . |
| 3 | Lorne tried chanting a few limericks over and over , but we never saw the eels again , though we dived there often . |
| 4 | Rendered or dashed walls can always benefit from a coat of good exterior wall paint , and surfaces which are already painted will probably need recoating every few years . |
| 5 | First lessons involve learning a few words of ‘ sailspeak ’ . |
| 6 | Both groups performed the same task in the judgment phase , this involved watching the same films in their entirety . |
| 7 | He might enjoy exploring the many rooms that , while not too wonderful graphically , serve their purpose well enough . |
| 8 | The oldest woman in the refuge had worked as a railway clerk , in a sausage factory , a pop factory and in a factory making bingo boards until she stopped working a few years earlier and was put on invalidity benefit . |
| 9 | ‘ I stopped working a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | At times he advised reverting to a lower potency if the higher potency aggravated ; at other times he advised giving a few doses of a partially similar remedy if any aggravation should occur ; he also suggested administering the remedy in liquid form , giving a few succussions before repeating ( the plus system ) . |
| 11 | United then began to pile men forward as they had to , Simpson causing problems down the left , Phillips again in mid-field winning a lot of ball , but of course United leaving a few gaps at the back , and just before the finish , four minutes before the finish , that man Gascoigne put the game beyond United 's reach , giving Spurs a four two victory . |
| 12 | Since transmission is largely on a foal-to-foal basis it is good policy to avoid using the same paddocks for nursing mares and their foals in successive years . |
| 13 | Why d' you keep saying the same things . |
| 14 | Mr Turner , a retired electronics computer engineer , and Mr Hubbard were among 85 training on HMS Defiant at Devonport but finished training a few months apart and lost touch in 1953 . |
| 15 | As it crawls round and round in circles it keeps revisiting the same pebbles . |
| 16 | I mean I remember reading a few bits in English but , you know , |
| 17 | Russell finished munching a few crisps . |
| 18 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 19 | Ironically , Cadillac also started building the same engines soon after Leland started Lincoln . |
| 20 | A similar register of all villages and other groups of buildings should be compiled and examined using the same criteria , with the same objective . |
| 21 | This exemplary logic completed , it was another few breathless minutes before she found the necessary strength to contemplate walking the few feet to join Roman 's laughing , relaxed presence at the breakfast-table . |
| 22 | Circulation , which peaked at more than 100,000 at the height of Ulster 's violence , had fallen to around 20,000 after the rival Sunday Life , owned by Thomson Regional Newspapers , started publishing a few years ago . |
| 23 | 5.9.6.8 imposing in relation to any permitted underletting the same obligations as contained in clause 5.9.6 and in clause[s] 5.9.7 [ 5.9.8 and 5.9.9 ] ] [ 5.9.7 Prior to any permitted underletting to procure that the undertenant enters into direct covenants with the Landlord to the like effect as those contained in clauses 5.9.6 [ and ] 5.9.7 [ 5.9.8 and 5.9.9 ] ] [ 5.9.8 To enforce the performance and observance by every such undertenant of the provisions of the underlease and not at any time either expressly or by implication to waive any breach of the covenants or conditions on the part of any undertenant or assignee of any underlease nor ( without the consent of the Landlord such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) vary the terms or accept a surrender of any permitted underlease ] [ 5.9.9 In relation to any permitted underlease : |
| 24 | 5.9.6.8 imposing in relation to any permitted underletting the same obligations in clause 5.9.6 and in clause[s] 5.9.7 [ 5.9.8 and 5.9.9 ] ] [ 5.9.7 Prior to any permitted underletting to procure that the undertenant enters into direct covenants with the Landlord to the like effect as those contained in clauses 5.9.6 [ and ] 5.9.7 [ 5.9.8 and 5.9.9 ] ] [ 5.9.8 To enforce the performance and observance by every such undertenant of the provisions of the underlease and not at any time either expressly or by implication to waive any breach of the covenants or conditions on the part of any undertenant or assignee of any underlease nor ( without the consent of the Landlord such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) vary the terms of any permitted underlease ] [ 5.9.9 In relation to any permitted underlease to ensure that the rent is reviewed in accordance with the terms of the underlease ] |
| 25 | The curator of Edinburgh zoo has proposed adding a few specimens to the zoo collection . |
| 26 | You 'll have to start doing a few jobs for me next week . |
| 27 | Only in two seats ( one in Liverpool , one in London ) , where there was some feuding between the two Alliance partners , were Liberal and SDP candidates to be found contesting the same seats . |
| 28 | In fact , as I recall , I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves . |
| 29 | And it was about time she started making a few waves , she told herself firmly . |
| 30 | As the company grew , smaller clone-makers , also building to IBM 's software standard , started trying the same tactics on Compaq itself . |