Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You find yourself hanging on to every last minute together . ’ |
| 2 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 5 | Thus , if : attribute Al , = single boundary touching only with a second domain , and attribute A2 = solid in domain space . |
| 6 | There seems little chance of one of the party 's senior professionals stepping down in the next few months to create a by-election for the Tory chairman . |
| 7 | In December 1989 the ‘ First National Conference on Knowledge Representation and Inference in Sanskritam ’ was organised by the Computer Society of India in Bangalore , bringing together for the first time linguists and computer scientists from all over India . |
| 8 | Old enemies now competing together at the first ever international games for disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 9 | Mum is singing along with the last hymn . |
| 10 | The two feet would shrink with a cheating stick , and perhaps we could avoid some of the easier but time-consuming lower pitches by sneaking in along the first terrace from an easier route . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll be right here beside you , ’ she added , climbing on to the next horse . |
| 12 | The route has now taken a bit of hammering with a Yugoslav bagging the third ascent and Sean Myles and Andy Pollitt steaming in for the fourth and fifth ascents soon afterwards . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't have thought so , ’ Aldridge said , walking over to the next one . |
| 14 | His biggest regret , he said , was not signing off with a 34th try . |
| 15 | Driving off on the first day was Sandy Lyle … as a winner of the British Open and American Masters he 's got to be one of the best judges of courses around |
| 16 | Furthermore , if males are in short supply in one generation , they will be selectively favoured by contributing disproportionately to the next generation . |
| 17 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 18 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 19 | Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) . |
| 20 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 21 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 22 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 23 | Now I think it 's a bit rich t to slam the Liberals for walking out on the last debate because the Tories did n't attend the Health Trust Select Committee which Council set up . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not snowing so heavily now , ’ he said , on climbing back for the sixth time . |
| 25 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 26 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |
| 27 | Since having the frame fitted at Middlesbrough General Hospital , Claire , of Warwick Street , Middlesbrough , can look forward to walking independently for the first time . |
| 28 | Since having the frame fitted at Middlesbrough General Hospital , she can look forward to walking independently for the first time . |
| 29 | But it would not be difficult to construct post hoc explanations for fertility decline occurring earlier in the nineteenth century as well . |
| 30 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |