Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [num ord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pamela was just completing the fourteenth of the 15 lengths of backstroke she did every morning before breakfast when she realised she was n't alone . |
| 2 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |
| 3 | ‘ Catching the last of the sun 's rays , ’ said Luke . |
| 4 | Right now he 's away on a skiing holiday catching the last of the snow . ’ |
| 5 | Then it is across the road to the social club for the third pint , before tackling the first of the long uphill stretches to the Lamb at Denholme and the fourth pint . |
| 6 | Party leader John Bruton , launching the first of the campaign manifestos , said the Reynolds ' government had still left unemployment at a near-record high level . |
| 7 | A student has made education history by becoming the first in the country to pass a new exam . |
| 8 | Spatz bowed , then returned behind his desk , opening the first of the files , running his finger over the apparently blank page , the warmth of his touch bringing the characters alive briefly on the specially treated paper . |
| 9 | Slowly , almost imperceptibly the towers and battlements grew , reaching upwards , the darkness of a bad dream devouring the last of the day . |
| 10 | Devouring the last of the berries were redwing , too . |
| 11 | Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth . |
| 12 | We are now validating and approving the last of the three batches of courses for the new system and , apart from a few special cases , this will mean that all students beginning an advanced course after the summer will be enrolling for a modular , rather than traditional , course . |
| 13 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 14 | Swallowing the last of the scone he ran over the drive and into the house to see Martin disappearing into the study . |
| 15 | By the mid 1950s the OCU was also training the first of the foreign aircrew whose governments had bought various marks of Canberras . |
| 16 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 17 | Her arrival , and the exclamations of admiration that greeted her , succeeded in defusing the last of the tension caused by Geoffrey 's tactless remarks . |
| 18 | On top of that , scoring the third in the 3–1 win over the Sky Blues made him the youngest scorer of a First Division goal . |
| 19 | When he came within sight of the front door , the car was parked outside and two men helping a third up the steps . |
| 20 | In 1982 , Lloyd identified those needs and filled the vacuum by providing the first of the clubs that the 1990's tennis player — and his family — desired . |
| 21 | When she returned to the table and began scooping the first of the curd into a mould , they felt her eyes burning into them , all three of them . |
| 22 | He was concentrating on demolishing the last of the lime and liquorice sweets he had brought with him in his haversack from Partick , and he trod purposefully on the wet red leaves with his hiking-boots as he strode along . |
| 23 | ‘ We had better get her away from here , ’ said the Medjay healer , removing the last of the flies and quickly wrapping the corpse in a linen sheet before any more could settle . |
| 24 | Logically expecting the last of the breed to be the best of the breed , I was surprised to learn that the Mooney ‘ is n't a patch ’ on the Aircoupe . |
| 25 | ‘ A world-wide conspiracy embracing a third of the world 's population ’ he pronounced the enemy to be , and added that it threatened ‘ the erasure of freedom , perhaps for ever , from the parchment of time ’ … a windy piece of rhetoric typical of the times if not of J. Edgar , whose taste ran to Tarzan movies where the dialogue is less verbose . |
| 26 | Buyers from all over the country have been attending the first of the annual auctions of holly and mistletoe . |
| 27 | They were hauling the first of the thin , encasing layers over the top of the frame , the heavily-suited men pulling on the guide ropes . |
| 28 | Ronnie therefore had to finish it on site , spending the best part of a week-end in the palace perfecting the pattern march and joining the last of the pieces together . |
| 29 | The first payment due to you which will be credited to your business bank account will be on week commencing the seventh of the February . |
| 30 | MouseMan Cordless is exempt from UK radio licensing regulations.The Lithium DL123A 3V battery represents approaching a tenth of the cost of the package at £7 a go . |