Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The first session , after I have finished speaking , will involve 12 speakers addressing you on the theme of the conference , each from his or her specific perspective . |
| 2 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 3 | It does not provide an important venue for researchers to announce new results , but offers instead a brief taste of science to the locals in more than 300 events covering everything from fitness testing to X-ray astronomy . |
| 4 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 5 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 6 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 7 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 8 | In Years I and II , students take three units introducing them to political and socio-economic aspects of the countries of the EC and they also consider the mass media in Europe . |
| 9 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 10 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |
| 11 | The learning outcomes in these modules have so much in common that it seems inappropriate to have three teachers teaching them in three separate classrooms . |
| 12 | He set aside an area of one hundred and nine acres to the east of the original Saxon village ( called Old Town to this day ) and on it laid out a regular plan of streets — three running parallel with the river and three others crossing them at right angles . |
| 13 | She 's gathered fifty seven thousand signatures joining her in her call for tougher sentences . |
| 14 | Initial charges are up to 5 p.c. depending which of the 14 underlying funds are chosen . |
| 15 | Invitations have been sent to 3,000 businesses asking them to the conference which is backed by the Health and Safety Executive and County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 16 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 17 | Claudia drove the ten miles separating them at reckless speed . |
| 18 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 19 | It was a closely fought struggle in Grade Three between the two Ballynahinch teams , with just one point separating them for first and second places , with the ‘ B ’ set just edging into the lead for top honours . |
| 20 | He had had a distinguished war , being wounded once and decorated twice , and had spent the next five years recreating it in a series of patriotic British movies . |
| 21 | If there 's a half team one people , one person counting one on a break and two interviewing . |
| 22 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 23 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 24 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 25 | A young man went downstairs early one morning wearing nothing but a short nightgown . |
| 26 | Two wills becoming one , when the two wills were initially unequal can surely only mean the one will subordinating itself to the other . |
| 27 | Fashions come and fashions go , but one style repeating itself with enormous popularity is that of the Edwardian era . |
| 28 | And getting to it can mean one man hauling himself through a two-foot tunnel for half an hour in six inches of water . |
| 29 | And there 's one thing bothering them like everybody else , as they watched their pockets filling with every new CD pile . |
| 30 | City are thus able to check the Premier table to find they have eight teams below them with a gap of nine points separating them from the relegation zone . |