Example sentences of "[v-ing] [num] [noun] [coord] [verb] " 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 | Many odour problems arise with the intensified use of land , e.g. a farmer may begin by keeping 50 pigs and expand until he has several hundred . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It starts a new line without ending one paragraph and starting a new one . |
| 9 | Mortimer hurled a grenade upwards , blasting one gun and tossing its crew aside , but the others were unharmed . |
| 10 | By December 1939 there were ninety centres for Jewish education , employing 107 teachers and serving 3000 children . |
| 11 | The first bullet hit the man in the chest , staving in the sternum , cracking two ribs and ripping through a lung . |
| 12 | It can also print on A3 size paper , which is several inches wider than previous technologies allow , so enabling two cheques or slips to be printed side by side . |
| 13 | THE Conservatives confounded all predictions in Scotland , gaining two seats and holding Stirling against a fierce Labour challenge . |
| 14 | The company is currently operating eight sites and has just moved to a new office in South Normanton , Derbyshire . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The school had its best ever season last year , winning all 12 games played while scoring 312 points and conceding 52 . |
| 20 | The work , comprising 218 images and entitled ‘ Illustrations of China and its People ’ , was finally published in four volumes between 1874 and 77 . |
| 21 | He went to the shelves lining one wall and selected a handful of cassettes , then picked up a transistor radio . |
| 22 | Then , England lost 2-0 in Chorzow , Bobby Moore inadvertently scoring one goal and letting Wlodimierz Lubanski through for the other . |
| 23 | You have to remember to unhook it when changing colour again or you will end up solving one problem and causing another . |
| 24 | The programme to rebuild the run-down estate included bulldozing 38 properties and refurbishing many others . |
| 25 | Even the simple device of lengthening one note and shortening another can transform the music ( as in Example 2(b) , above ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In that innings he batted for 292 minutes , facing 257 balls and hitting 14 fours . |
| 29 | Prices starts at £216pp ( based on two people staying 7 nights and hired a Grade A car ) . |
| 30 | A HUGE bomb exploded in the centre of Portadown today injuring six people and causing widespread devastation . |