Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] to [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 2 | Restaurants , antique and craft shops can be found in and around the township and in addition to the Castle currently undergoing environmental works , visitors are intrigued by the thriving ancient Corporation with its Portreeve , Jury and Common Attorney etc. which retains with pride local customs dating back to its 13th Century Charter . |
| 3 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 4 | Incidentally , any players interested in other courses at The Guitar Institute , Basstech or Drumtech might fancy going along to their second Open Day on Saturday , 19th September at either 3.00pm or 5.00pm … |
| 5 | CHAMPIONS and section one league leaders Waringstown are in danger of going down to their first defeat of the season . |
| 6 | THE Marquess of Blandford was today waking up to his first full day in London 's Pentonville Prison , facing all but nine hours of it ‘ banged up ’ . |
| 7 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 8 | For the six months leading up to my 40th birthday last April , I felt decidedly morbid . |
| 9 | Moving on to your third point , the long-term aspects of education , you said these are largely demographic ? |
| 10 | Unarmed combat is basically the quickest way of attacking somebody and grinding them into little pieces before moving on to your next victim . ) |
| 11 | The City Research project is now moving in to its second year and has already seen the publication of three reports . |
| 12 | Ooh you 're getting down to your last tuppence . |
| 13 | In front of a tall classical tomb — the centre panel left blank for overprinting — reclines a shrouded skeleton , representing Death , who leans to the viewer 's left to stop Youth from detaining Time who is shown flying off to his next assignment . |
| 14 | Now he 's facing up to his first week without work in 36 years |
| 15 | Dickens ' timeless story , now coming up to its 146th Christmas , has been adapted with affection by David Holman and directed with dash by Gwenda Hughes . |
| 16 | Well that would certainly be my favourite , we we 'll be coming up to our hundredth anniversary are n't we fairly soon ? |
| 17 | Dad had been improving daily — he was eating well , in good spirits and coming up to his eightieth birthday . |
| 18 | He was coming up to his twenty-seventh birthday and his face had already acquired some of the lived-in look that became one of his characteristics later in his career . |
| 19 | Mozart was then coming up to his eighteenth birthday , but already a mature master , and No 29 is both a great symphony and an enchantingly beautiful one . |
| 20 | No , you 're just coming up to your first round . |
| 21 | I was going to ask Jenette anyway , as it was coming up to my 40th birthday . ’ |
| 22 | The words stuck in Folly 's mind , coming back to her next morning as she sat at the Rose Bowl 's work-table , preparing roses for conditioning by crushing the tips of their stems with a heavy mallet . |
| 23 | Erm we we aim to get as much development in our area as possible and coming back to your first question this afternoon , I I do n't really se any problem with the North Yorkshire proposals , that 's the middle range . |
| 24 | 8 : As for high level wastes , no-one has demonstrated ( can they ? ) how these wastes can be safely isolated and guarded for the necessary one million years — a geological time span reaching out to our 40,000th generation … |