Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , to attach the pelmet to the board , either attach the firm side of the touch-and-close fastener to the top edge of the board with steel tacks , if using the first method above , or place a strong drawing pin through each pocket on the tape and into the top edge of the board , bending the returns round the ends of the board . |
| 2 | Joan Bailey enquired , drawing the first letter out of its envelope , looking casually down at it , not avid , barely curious . |
| 3 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Some mistake , ’ the woman said , plonking the second pint down on the bar . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 6 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 7 | I 'd come so far without looking from side to side , only seeing the next qualification up , that by the time I began to feel closed in it was too late . |
| 8 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 9 | At the 1913 Birmingham meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science she was elected president of section K ( botany ) , thus becoming the first woman ever to preside over a section . |
| 10 | One or both of them may not wish to cope with parenting a second time round , having not long been released from the exhaustion and limitations of childcare on their own account . |
| 11 | Back at the end of the nineteenth century , the Milanese anatomist Camillo Golgi had discovered almost by chance a stain , based on the use of silver salts , which has the capacity to select out , seemingly at random , a small proportion of the neurons in a section of tissue and stain each immaculately , revealing every last detail not just of its cell body but also the dendrites and even the myriad little spines which stud the dendrites ' surfaces . |
| 12 | She could not say it in front of him , nor he in front of her , even though it is probable that he too would prefer to try living the next life differently , without Agnes . |
| 13 | After rounding the last mark incorrectly , they returned , losing places in the process , only to catch a submerged dustbin on their keel . |
| 14 | McCallen is hoping that the Honda will remain in one piece after tomorrow for it travels on to Donington for the British Championship meeting the next day where it will be ridden by Steve Hislop with McCallen reverting to the slower RC30 Honda . |
| 15 | The third presence in this Unholy Trinity of forces pulling the Third World downhill is the catastrophic decline in commodity prices during the 1980s . |
| 16 | Hybrid parameters relevant to the three configurations are distinguished by adding a second subscript so that , for example , the common-emitter h-parameters are denoted by , , and . |
| 17 | An extensive seismic programme will begin in the second half of 1992 with a view to drilling the first exploration well in late 1993 . |
| 18 | We 're putting all our resources into getting the first leg over . |
| 19 | Spend time getting the first layer dead true . |
| 20 | At last just as she was contemplating getting the next bus home he arrived . |
| 21 | Occasionally they sought changes in the Club and on the course , suggesting moving the 5th tee forward and being provided with at able on which to clean their clubs ! |
| 22 | HUNDREDS were last night facing a second night away from their homes as the true cost of the North Wales flood disaster emerged . |
| 23 | Similarly , using the wrong rhythm while speaking a second language immediately singles you out as a foreigner . |
| 24 | No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock |
| 25 | Two officers are examining the first floor right now ; there is some ivy . ’ |
| 26 | Laughed at when his US promoter described him as ‘ the new Marvin Hagler ’ ; now having the last laugh back home in Ilford |
| 27 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |
| 28 | revolving it , two hands doing the first job just changed |
| 29 | Clearly , psychics should talk about having a seventh sense rather than the sixth ! |
| 30 | There was bickering the next morning too . |