Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [num] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The material consisting of 16739 patients who were given the drug for duodenal ulcer , gastric ulcer , gastritis/duodenitis or coexisting duodenal and gastric ulcer , and had neither a history of gastric surgery , nor a history of cancer , has been described previously . |
| 2 | Families are still per-ceived as consisting of one breadwinner who only exceptionally is a woman , and one dependent spouse whose primary responsibilities lie in the home . |
| 3 | POLICE are searching for two youths who escaped from Castle Huntly young offenders institution in Perthshire last night . |
| 4 | Police are still searching for two boys who were pictured on closed-circuit security screens taking James from the Strand . |
| 5 | At the time she was lodging with two ladies who had lost their brother in the First World War . |
| 6 | But according to one retailer who thinks that the mail-order operation needs a lot of work to modernise and improve it : ‘ It represents cannon rather than rifle shot — it is old fashioned and they do not target customers properly . ’ |
| 7 | " You learnt a lot " , according to one woman who had worked on the Encyclopaedia Britannica , which was her most vivid memory , as well it might be . |
| 8 | She was a good deal teased by children playing in the parks , according to one park-keeper who was sorry for her and tried to help her , and once had her bags snatched by a gang of youths . |
| 9 | Bury St Edmunds , according to three people who live there , is an odd place . |
| 10 | Police discovered stolen credit cards in his bedroom belonging to four women who had been mugged in the Acton area of West London , offences which all took place while he was on bail . |
| 11 | ‘ I would have thought so too , but last night I spent a whole dinner sitting between two girls who talked about nothing but horses . |
| 12 | The Officer was talking to two gunners who appeared to be Polish judging by their accents . |
| 13 | I well remember during one hot dry summer talking to one grower who was complaining about his poor crop of parsnips . |