Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classic one involves picking up stitches with your transfer tool , knitting about seven or eight rows , picking up the next three stitches and repeating along your edge . |
| 2 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 3 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 4 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 5 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 6 | It also covers the whole book , whereas the Olivier film ended after Cathy 's death , cutting out the last third of the novel . |
| 7 | Past Bracken Hill beyond Out Brough I looked down at Bainbridge snoozing in the sun before dropping down the last half-mile to the green and the Post Office for something to still the dust . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
| 10 | Although menstrual cycles vary quite considerably in length from person to person , the average length is about 28 days with the ‘ period ’ taking up the first five or six of these . |
| 11 | The marauders had simply backed the wagon into a relatively open grove , and tipped the stack of wood headlong , raking out the last slim cordwood and dragging the cart away from under them . |
| 12 | Batty said : ‘ It 's been murder sitting out the last eight games . |
| 13 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 14 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 15 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |