Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Then with school looming ominously on the next day 's horizon there was a stampede home to see who could be first in bed . |
| 3 | THERE 'S plenty to be thankful for in December , not least your ruler , Mercury , moving directly on the 1st . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Two have been built already , and work is continuing furiously on the third . |
| 6 | This chapter will show the principal trends in population distribution since the inter-war period , focusing particularly on the last couple of decades . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Wynne-Thomas pointed towards two men standing together on the next pitch . |
| 10 | Entraining again on the 9th the battalion journeyed to Swindon , for a week 's hard training . |