Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent most of the day staring at the walls and ceiling and wondering when the next meal would come . |
| 2 | Carson started to climb the stairs , passing some stacks of yellow newsprint and a bicycle which was chained to the rotting wood of the balustrade , before turning and starting up the next flight . |
| 3 | IBM has paid out $3.63 in dividends so far this year , and cutting out the fourth quarter payout altogether would save it a very welcome $680m or so . |
| 4 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 5 | Though accepting both the first and the third , the philosophically unsophisticated would reject the second . |
| 6 | The German Ideology is often seen with the Theses on Feuerbach , which was written just before it , as forming together the first formulation of Marxism . |
| 7 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |