Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 2 | Now see I 'm looking at this here , right , just for fitting in twelve games I mean , I 'm gon na have to start the first of May . |
| 3 | The family spent the summer of 1948 in the Lebanese hill resort of Aley , living on 7,000 pounds they had taken with them from Palestine . |
| 4 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 5 | Turning after 50 feet I saw my wife was sitting in the snow and weeping . |
| 6 | a group of parcels going in two loads it 's two |
| 7 | Over two hours , this can be wearing for two minutes it 's fine . |
| 8 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 9 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 10 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 11 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 12 | So you 're saying after three months you want to review it . |
| 13 | we 're just , we 're just running on five tapes I think , well only four because one of them are oh well , let's go upstairs again |
| 14 | Whitten Brown gave in to his instincts , and since they were cruising at 20,000 feet they were definitely higher ones . |
| 15 | If staff are arriving before 0800 hours and leaving before 1515 hours they should complete a manual adjustment form for Friday 11 December 1992 in the normal way excluding any starting and finishing times . |
| 16 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |
| 17 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 18 | But if it had meant working for two months she would have said immediately , as she did now , ‘ I 'll have it . ’ |
| 19 | And after working for seven minutes I am already feeling the need for the ingestion of sugar . |