Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning .
2 I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . "
3 Continued involvement of TL scientists through the different seasons of excavation has enabled them to collect samples and bury capsules to measure the associated gamma radiation dose rate , burying a capsule one summer and retrieving it the next .
4 It was liking someone one minute and hating them the next .
5 The–e be put with their mother into the greenhouse , but visiting them the next day found that only five chicks still had legs .
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