Example sentences of "[v-ing] [num] [noun] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annabelle 's father insists that any furniture order is delivered the same day , even if it means driving fifty miles and doing the driving and shifting himself . |
| 2 | The firm took a leading part in the introduction in 1855–6 of the new steel-making process devised by ( Sir ) Henry Bessemer [ q.v. ] , and the continuing expansion of their business made it necessary to build a separate boiler-making works in Ardwick , employing 500 men and producing six boilers a week . |
| 3 | And new paintings by Lawrence Gipe make up an installation downtown at Blum-Helman , opening 10 October and running until 21 November . |
| 4 | On his release , he resumed his clandestine pastoral work in his diocese of Baoding , consecrating three bishops and ordaining hundreds of priests . |
| 5 | John Lees , who often joins variously shaped pieces of paper to create the fields on which he applies his artfully-smudged and flickering drawings , shows new pencil and ink works ( along with new oil paintings ) at Hirschl & Adler , opening 18 February and continuing through 20 March . |
| 6 | She had spent all afternoon trying to ask Nanny more , but Nanny had been in a funny mood , laughing one minute and crying the next , and not making any sense of anything she said . |
| 7 | It starts a new line without ending one paragraph and starting a new one . |
| 8 | Mortimer hurled a grenade upwards , blasting one gun and tossing its crew aside , but the others were unharmed . |
| 9 | By December 1939 there were ninety centres for Jewish education , employing 107 teachers and serving 3000 children . |
| 10 | The first bullet hit the man in the chest , staving in the sternum , cracking two ribs and ripping through a lung . |
| 11 | THE Conservatives confounded all predictions in Scotland , gaining two seats and holding Stirling against a fierce Labour challenge . |
| 12 | Pollution episodes continued unabated with , for example , a four-day episode in New York City in November 1966 causing 80 deaths and resulting in a state of emergency being declared by Governor Rockefeller ( figure 8.3 ) . |
| 13 | Ask the children to sit in a circle and explain that the aim of the game is to toss the beanbag ( bomb ) to a child in the circle who may not be expecting it , possibly by looking one way and throwing the other . |
| 14 | In the March 1 fighting Aoun 's troops attacked LF positions in the Ashrafieh and Nabaa districts , capturing two streets and setting the Dora commercial district ablaze . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't single out any bad ones in particular — they all performed more or less the same — but a lot of people were taking an extra day , guaranteeing 48 hours and taking 72 hours . |
| 16 | The school had its best ever season last year , winning all 12 games played while scoring 312 points and conceding 52 . |
| 17 | Indeed the Irish performance bore little resemblance to the confident efforts of acknowledged Sevens experts and defending champions Fiji , who ran all over and around Malaysia to win the opening game 49–0 , or Australia , who started by scoring 47 points while conceding a lone try to Singapore . |
| 18 | Then , England lost 2-0 in Chorzow , Bobby Moore inadvertently scoring one goal and letting Wlodimierz Lubanski through for the other . |
| 19 | You have to remember to unhook it when changing colour again or you will end up solving one problem and causing another . |
| 20 | The programme to rebuild the run-down estate included bulldozing 38 properties and refurbishing many others . |
| 21 | Even the simple device of lengthening one note and shortening another can transform the music ( as in Example 2(b) , above ) . |
| 22 | Swindon have gained promotion to the Premier Division of the West Clubs League after winning all 16 of their matches , scoring 60 goals and conceding just three . |
| 23 | This work used double-printing ( overlaying two negatives and printing one image from them ) to combine portrait photographs of Wegman , his father and his mother . |
| 24 | In that innings he batted for 292 minutes , facing 257 balls and hitting 14 fours . |
| 25 | A HUGE bomb exploded in the centre of Portadown today injuring six people and causing widespread devastation . |
| 26 | By now the contractions were lasting 45 seconds and coming about every five minutes . |
| 27 | Astley Cooper claimed ( incorrectly ) that the constitution of the College would not allow more professors to be appointed , although it is difficult to imagine that a course , ideally lasting three years and covering the health and diseases of all species of domesticated animals , could have been undertaken by a professor , an assistant professor and a demonstrator . |
| 28 | W B INDUSTRIES , the fully listed spring manufacturer , is funding three acquisitions and reducing its debt with a £5.75m two-for-five rights issue . |
| 29 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 30 | Rolfehedges in the Sussex Weald ‘ hath no demesnes but consisteth onely of a fewe copiholdes ’ — in fact four , containing 91 acres and paying a total of 15s. 8d. annually ; tenure was hereditary and fines limited . |