Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pesci , a bungling burglar in the movie and its upcoming sequel , gave up singing for acting 15 years ago . |
| 2 | Perhaps you will change your mind about returning to publishing one day . |
| 3 | We 'd be looking at making forty percent margin . |
| 4 | TOLLY beer from Suffolk is going down a storm among the wine drinkers of Italy.And ale from Tolly 's Cliff Brewery in Ipswich could soon be wetting the whistles of beer-lovers in Canada , Germany , Holland and France.Tolly bosses are celebrating after exporting 1,200 cases of their special Year Beer , Cantab , to Italy — and they have received inquiries from four other countries.Brian Cowie , Tolly 's joint managing director , said interest from abroad had initially come since the brewery 's name had been publicised on BBC television 's recent Troubleshooter programme . |
| 5 | He offered 150 separate cuts in spending from eliminating 100,000 government jobs and freezing salaries , to ending subsidies for the rearing of mohair goats and honey bees . |
| 6 | have denied overreacting in taking seven children into care after they had been left at home alone . |
| 7 | NEC is counting on shipping 1,500 units to Control Data by the end of 1994 , and the two are considering developing their relationship further , including the supply by NEC of other UNIX workstations to Control Data , the adoption by NEC of some Control Data applications to fill gaps in its own line — and the marketing by Control Data of NEC personal computers , probably the Ultralite MS-DOS laptop computer . |
| 8 | Like , you 're only talking about getting four walls for twenty thousand are n't you ? |
| 9 | Just we 're talking about got two children , a girl , a boy . |
| 10 | When I say a head , that one unit there is like the man was sitting at making one stocking at a time . |
| 11 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 12 | I was thinking about getting two sets of overalls . |
| 13 | the separate insertion of a single page into a book either during or after binding by pasting one edge . |
| 14 | Andrei Chikatilo has been sentenced to death by shooting for committing fifty-two murders in Russia . |
| 15 | But it was night of despair for Villa , who had that great championship feeling after going two points clear at the top at the weekend . |
| 16 | I 'd have told Jamie as much , too , if I 'd been able to talk and had n't been concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 17 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which either party received a proposal — submitted according to the first item [ ( a ) ] — without the two parties agreeing on appointing one arbitrator , the authority nominated by the two parties undertakes to appoint the arbitrator . |