Example sentences of "[v-ing] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking several feet apart and avoiding even making eye contact , the royal couple arrive at Seoul 's national cemetery . |
| 2 | He was in better spirits and colour now , for he had been out walking several times with Luch since she had gently persuaded him to dress and go to the wedding . |
| 3 | In the case of the Vale of Pewsey Fault , however , only minor faulting occurs in the Mesozoic above the subcrop of the thrust , the main growth fault appearing several kilometres to the south , perhaps controlled either by a splay thrust in the hanging wall or by local steepening of the sole thrust at this point . |
| 4 | An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of two Acts … for repairing and widening several roads leading to , through , and from the town of Frome in the County of Somerset . |
| 5 | When Bath members mentioned that a third of their stand was kept for non-club members , the stewards disappeared , returning several minutes later with tickets which were then issued . |
| 6 | began power kiting several years ago after seeing BBC TV 's Tomorrow 's World programme . |
| 7 | Hekmatyar was reported on Aug. 23 to have received a joint mujaheddin peace delegation representing several provinces , but to have rejected a proposal from Rabbani that a ceasefire should not be conditional on the withdrawal from Kabul of the powerful Uzbek militia led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam . |
| 8 | They can be territorial , so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places . |
| 9 | They can be territorial , so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places . |
| 10 | Trying to stop another huge build up of travellers in one area is a subject keeping several police forces across the region occupied . |
| 11 | As I stared at the German with the white flag , I remembered ( as no doubt the five Frenchmen lying beside me also remembered ) a short time ago in Amfreville a small party of Germans had surrendered and , as the Commando patrol approached , one of the Germans had lobbed a grenade , killing and wounding several members of the patrol . |
| 12 | After shooting the woman from the council house and her baby , and his mother , Larry had walked into Bishops Linctus and shot dead the first three people he met , wounding several others . |
| 13 | In an attack on a non-military target , a bomb planted several feet inside the doorway of the exclusive Carlton Club in central London , frequented by leading Conservative Party figures , exploded at about 8.30 p.m. on June 25 , injuring a porter seriously and wounding several others , and causing a fire and extensive damage . |
| 14 | A couple virtually flew off , landing several feet away . |
| 15 | William Boys of Battle , worth £30 in goods , had inherited from his father a lucrative business employing several waggoners and assistants , plus a leading position in the town hierarch . |
| 16 | First-stage tinies progress to playing variations on Twinkle , Twinkle , Little Star and by school age are tackling several tunes . |
| 17 | After driving several miles in the fading light , I spotted a signpost which marked a public footpath , and somehow ‘ knew ’ this was the right route . |
| 18 | Ah , but we 're finding that this , in fact , happening several times . |
| 19 | She needed a plan of action , she decided as she began the task of stripping several layers of wallpaper from the walls — a concerted campaign to protect the club , and if she were to be painfully honest , herself , from the marauding hands of the so-called Midnight Raider . |
| 20 | As dawn appears in the sky our progress quickens ; after crossing a few fields and climbing several hedgerows we are suddenly on a road with farm buildings a short distance away . |
| 21 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 22 | And it 's my contention , it 's my contention that them people that were er strafing and bombing me , er outside , er in republican Spain , was the same was the same crowd was the same crowd that were bombing and strafing several years later , in the in in the second world war , in in in France er and Holland . |
| 23 | In other words , in the literature of a given subject area , it is normally possible to identify a number of facets and , by applying several characteristics of subdivision , to divide isolates into facets . |
| 24 | Within the framework of the current definition ( a permanent gluten sensitive enteropathy ) , clinical , pathological , epidemiological , and immunological approaches are revealing several forms of coeliac disease . |
| 25 | Working partnerships forged at home have provided a good springboard for launching several initiatives with partners abroad . |
| 26 | This will enable you to make a thicker yarn by twisting several yarns together which will give a tweed effect when knitted up . |
| 27 | Without accuracy you will succeed only in forming several paths of loose feed across the river , which is defeating the whole object of the swimfeeder principle . |
| 28 | Boswell 's description of the location corresponds with today 's scenery : wild heathland has altered little on Skye : ‘ The country around is a black dreary moor on all sides , except to the sea-coast , towards which there is a view through a valley … the place itself is green ground , being well drained , by means of a deep glen on each side , in both of which there runs a rivulet with a good quantity of water , forming several cascades which make a considerable appearance and sound . ’ |
| 29 | The author of the book of Judges shows when he was writing by remarking several times , " In those days there was no king in Israel ; every man did what was right in his own eyes . " |
| 30 | As skin cancer frequencies increase latitudinally towards the equator , correlating with increasing UV-B exposure , this projected increased incidence in skin cancer is equivalent in terms of exposure to the population living several degrees of latitude closer to the equator . |