Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 2 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 3 | " We 've been out looking for her since five , " said another man . |
| 4 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 5 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 6 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 7 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 8 | Owing to the small size of the unit in which he served , I wonder after so many years , how many ( if any ? ) of the men serving with him in 1426 still survive ? |
| 9 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 10 | The standard interpretation of their redshifts says that NGC 4319 is receding from us at 1800 km per sec , while the redshift of Markarian 205 indicates a recession velocity of 21 000 km per sec ( The Redshift Controversy , G. B. Field , H. Arp & J. N. Bahcall , W. A. Benjamin , New York , 1974 , p 46 ) . |
| 11 | Many people can not think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening . |
| 12 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 13 | Q I 'm writing to you about one of the programs on your November Mega Disk . |
| 14 | Deminex UK , which has secured another Liverpool Bay licence , has been exploring fields since 1972 and operating on them since 1977 . |
| 15 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 16 | He was looking at her with one eyebrow cocked . |
| 17 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 18 | So it 's not , you 're looking at it as two . |
| 19 | The purpose of this afternoon 's session is basically we 're we 're sort of looking at it from two pronged attacked . |
| 20 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 21 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 22 | In December 1936 Lance Henly , the Club 's forbearing Secretary for 15 years , resigned through ill-health , and the Brewery settled the £149 debt owing to him for 20 months unpaid expenses . |
| 23 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 24 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 25 | Dee 's calling for me at ten . |
| 26 | The car would now be calling for him at seven . |
| 27 | I felt myself moving towards him like one cloud drifting into another . |
| 28 | During the civil war he cast cannon for the king , Prince Rupert staying with him for three days in October 1642 . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't even bother speaking to him for 24 hours before a match , ’ was the advice of a Danish team-mate . |
| 30 | There was nothing , and suddenly there was everything : solid , sodden fields slightly canted over , and three , four German aircraft flying across them at fifteen hundred feet . |