Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] on [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No it 's it 's the one week which bridges the two erm months , but er er I will be , that we would normally be meeting again on the thirteenth of September , would n't we ? |
| 4 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 5 | Then with school looming ominously on the next day 's horizon there was a stampede home to see who could be first in bed . |
| 6 | He was unseated by a young health promotions officer , Des Lowry , for the SDLP who gained first preference votes of 753 , just seven short of the quota , with sitting SDLP councillor Barry Doherty going through on the first count . |
| 7 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
| 8 | THERE 'S plenty to be thankful for in December , not least your ruler , Mercury , moving directly on the 1st . |
| 9 | The times of retiring and getting up on the next morning were noted on the diary sheet and marked electronically by pushing the appropriate buttons on the recording unit . |
| 10 | Oh it took some sorting out on the next morning . |
| 11 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 12 | Two have been built already , and work is continuing furiously on the third . |
| 13 | So who 's coming down on the eleventh or twelfth of November ? |
| 14 | SERB forces were last night closing in on the last Muslim-held stronghold in eastern Bosnia , battling at close range with defenders of Gorazde . |
| 15 | Yvonne Bell 's charge hit trouble when finishing second in his heat , but was back in sparkling form charging through on the last bend to win the track final by 2 9 lengths at generous odds of 6–4 . |
| 16 | While Beck 's adventures were cut short , Nick Faldo , beaten by Lyle in last year 's final , went into overtime against David Frost of South Africa before coming through on the 38th hole . |
| 17 | ‘ Coming up on the first platform , Admiral . |
| 18 | We 've got a hearing coming up on the sixteenth of July in |
| 19 | they booked a six week holiday coming back on the first week on boxing day they 've got free car hire for the whole six weeks , not the insurance . |
| 20 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 21 | A company seeking a flotation might be better off skipping the OTC and starting out on the third market or USM . |
| 22 | This chapter will show the principal trends in population distribution since the inter-war period , focusing particularly on the last couple of decades . |
| 23 | But our luck was in , the roofs sported an undercut crack and the mere VI + underclinging across on the next pitch was an exhilarating holiday with guaranteed holds and gear . |
| 24 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 25 | Wynne-Thomas pointed towards two men standing together on the next pitch . |
| 26 | Entraining again on the 9th the battalion journeyed to Swindon , for a week 's hard training . |
| 27 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 28 | hello there … today we 've come east to the far east for our Central South sport … we 're in Nepal with some local pioneers who are setting off on the first ever Kathmandu marathon … before we run we have join our football parade … |
| 29 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 30 | Summing up on the first and second reasons , it is evident that the main objection to Article 86 legislation is that business does not relish the prospect of fines for abuse of monopoly power , because it would have to take competition policy more seriously in future . |