Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 2 | Hartlepool 's Procession host the first show at the Empire in Middlesbrough on Monday ; Hug take the tour to Newcastle Poly on March 2 , and on March 5 the Poppyfield bring it to Perry 's in Darlington where the Autumn Divers will also be on the bill . |
| 3 | Should South Africa host the next World Cup ? |
| 4 | We would glean the last of the coffee but hardly got paid anything . |
| 5 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 6 | It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green . |
| 7 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 8 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 9 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 10 | Wolsey met the first crisis by ordering the levy of a forced loan . |
| 11 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 12 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 13 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 14 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
| 15 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 16 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |
| 17 | ‘ You know , ’ whispered the first one , ‘ we should be okay as long as the batteries on our torches hold out . |
| 18 | " Tell him the sun-god promised that you would be the wisest of men , " whispered the third goblin . |
| 19 | Nicolo watched as Caroline spooned the last bit of tiramisu from her dessert plate . |
| 20 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 21 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 22 | She led a losing diamond from dummy , on which she discarded the winning heart from the closed hand , and West was forced to ruff and concede the last two tricks . |
| 23 | This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites . |
| 24 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 25 | Besides , with this creed I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime , I can so sincerely forgive the first , while I abhor the last with this creed revenge never worries my heart , degradation never too deeply disgusts me , injustice never crushes me too low , I live in calm looking to the end . |
| 26 | Mr Engholm ( and most of his rivals ) favour the second course . |
| 27 | But he posted the second letter now , before he took the Bakerloo line to Kilburn . |
| 28 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 29 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 30 | This distinction manifests itself in the fact that the " see that " paraphrase fits the second sentence very well but is very awkward for the first . |