Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet all this time the front wheel is pointing dead ahead and the bike is driving hard towards the next , faster left . |
| 32 | The Hong Kong government had announced on Nov. 19 that it was pressing ahead with the next stage of construction of the airport , despite a lack of agreement with China . |
| 33 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 34 | The action was highly controversial , occurring mid-way through the second phase of Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see p. 38693 ] . |
| 35 | Let's must hope Smith 's mind is on the game tomorrow , when Redditch are at Hitchin to contest a place in the FA Cup 's final qualifying round before the Third and Fourth Division sides enter . |
| 36 | Here we are , then , me and Anna , starving romantically in the next best thing to a garret : a tiny room in a dreadful hotel near the Pantheon . |
| 37 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 38 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 39 | Bedford25pts Waterloo4 BEDFORD , bailing furiously below the Second Division Plimsoll line , were in deep trouble at Goldstone Road on Saturday until , in the 35th minute , Paul Hackett , the Waterloo hooker , was sent off for stamping . |
| 40 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 41 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 42 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 43 | Although there is no independent evidence for the behaviour of Basina , the name Basena is known from a silver ladle , dating perhaps to the sixth century , found at Weimar . |
| 44 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 45 | The play tells the story of two young men who were separated by class and culture as children , who for different reasons end up serving together in the First World War . |
| 46 | But he declined to say whether the inspectors — two teams acting together for the first time in Iraq — had found any of the Scud missiles the United Nations thinks Iraq is hiding . |
| 47 | Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places . |
| 48 | In my dreams , I am still out there now , jinking into the chicane in second , piling on the power through third and into the pit straight , drifting left for the marker cone , turning in , clipping the apex and howling away to the second corner . |
| 49 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 50 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 51 | The bedsides of the dying were therefore thronged , not only by pastors saying prayers , but also by relatives and friends , listening attentively for a last instructive word or , in the case of a sinner , for some hopeful indication that all was not lost . |
| 52 | North of the town centre on the Stroud road , several old stone-built mill buildings survive , of which the largest is Dunkirk Mills , dating partly from the eighteenth century . |
| 53 | In the grounds of Mapledurham House , where Alexander Pope visited the Blount sisters , is a brick and timber water mill , dating partly from the fifteenth century , with later additions , the oldest surviving mill on the River Thames . |
| 54 | He made his Palace debut on Boxing Day , teaming up for the first time with Dickie Dowsett and Ronnie Allen , and helped the Palace romp to a thrilling 3–0 victory over Millwall on a freezing surface . |
| 55 | The Devil , wriggling out of the last of his knitted tail , wiped the shiny grease off his face and neck before strolling over . |
| 56 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 57 | Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century . |
| 58 | Writing this from the standpoint of the narrator ( Arthur ) looking back to the sixteenth ( and last ) year of Philip , the youngest child of the Morgan household , we are told that Arthur kept a diary of that year — as indeed Edward had kept such a diary and later printed it in The Woodland Life . |
| 59 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 60 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |