Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sharp contrast , Art of the Persian Courts : Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection by Abodala Soudavar gives a survey of Iranian and Persian manuscript painting , calligraphy and drawing from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries ( £55 ) . |
| 2 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 3 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 4 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 5 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 6 | During January , six planets are visiting your sign , so to say that life 's likely to be busy , fun and demanding for the next few months is an understatement . |
| 7 | They chatted quietly about old times — and daring for the first time to talk about the future . |
| 8 | Finally he spent an hour from 1630 to 1730 in his office finishing off his paperwork and checking on the next day 's programme . |
| 9 | If you use a pattern such as a basic 1x1 pattern ( that 's one hole punched , one hole blank , all across the card and alternating on the next row ) the resulting fabric has very short floats , not floats at all really ( swatch 6 ) . |
| 10 | The ensemble includes two flutes , one doubling piccolo : Mozart never wrote a serenade for wind using flutes , but of course The Magic Flute there had to be flutes , Papageno 's pipes too , represented at the very beginning of the first movement , and returning in the second movement , by the piccolo . |
| 11 | ( 4 ) In this paragraph ’ financial year ’ means the period beginning with the date on which the Funding Council is established and ending with the second 31st March following that date , and each successive period of twelve months . |
| 12 | British politics in the 1930s were often disillusioning for the labour movement , starting with the defection of the Labour Party 's leadership and the Party 's electoral eclipse , and ending with the Second World War , which destroyed the party 's hope of peace through disarmament and the League of Nations . |
| 13 | The British pairing of Colette Hall and local girl Sarah Loosemore was unable to win a set in the doubles against Lisa Albano and Emmons , despite leading 5–4 and serving in the second . |
| 14 | Twice Michael had lashed out at him and hurt him , only to be contrite and loving in the next breath . |
| 15 | I sat with one eye on the clock , waiting my turn and listening to the twenty-fifth rendering of ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 16 | He looked round him , upon the desolation of the field between Bryn Glas and the river , littered and faintly heaving still with bodies and cast arms , and groaning with the last convulsions of struggle and pain . |
| 17 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 18 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 20 | I 'm living alone now and looking for the next relationship , which I hope will be the last one . |
| 21 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 22 | The multinationals have moved to other countries because of the civil war and according to the last report , in May 1983 , there were only four factories still operating in the multinational industrial parks . |
| 23 | Avoid rigorous vacuuming and shampooing during the first few weeks after your new carpet has been fitted . |
| 24 | Last night , she said she would be taking a play to the Edinburgh Festival and directing for the first time . |
| 25 | They left within two days of his release , leaving me tired , dazed , relieved and waiting for the Second Son to come ‘ home ’ for yet another week-end . |
| 26 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 27 | They 've got to keep working and going for the second ball . |
| 28 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 29 | When we have left behind the turbulence of adolescence and shed some of the more harrowing demands of responsibility for making careers and caring for the next generation , we may seek opportunities to assess our lives and face its later stages with some serenity . |
| 30 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |