Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 2 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 3 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 4 | Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ? |
| 5 | In response , the largest bird importer in the US , A.A. Pare , has argued that " What we 're doing is salvaging the birds … if they stay in the jungle , they 're not going to have it in the next five years … |
| 6 | It will be interesting to see if you have lost that charm , because you are going to need it over the next few days , every last gram of it . ’ |
| 7 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 8 | One in five had received no training in the Act and most were expecting to receive none during the next six months . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 10 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 11 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 12 | Having finally admitted that the English drift-netting is damaging to Scotland 's rivers and needs to be phased out , the Government is proposing to accomplish it over the next 30 years . |