Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The senator had beaten down my last defences , and now offered me a compromise that might make my surrender to his wishes more acceptable .
2 And I could hardly force down my fourth slice of toast and marmalade .
3 Chauffeurs peel themselves off the walls , put down their fifth or sixth freebie rock'n'roll drink , and take us all in convoy to a club somewhere in Kansas City .
4 There was a staff of three Corporals , one Sergeant and the scarred Sergeant-Major who had interviewed me , all of whom were veterans of some twenty years ' service in the Legion , filling in their last years before retirement .
5 Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9am the next day to check if she had won .
6 The PLAYER tosses down his last coin by way of paying up , and turns away .
7 What was intriguing was that after the gentleman in question had filled in his first , second and third name there was room on the form , if he felt so inclined , to tell us the ‘ forename or nickname by which you are popularly known ’ .
8 A framed photograph of Sarah , taken on her eighteenth birthday , was on the sideboard .
9 It held a head and shoulders snapshot of herself taken on her eighteenth birthday .
10 In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions .
11 My mind played over my first robbery .
12 I hoped we could gloss over my first marriage as much as possible . ’
13 ‘ You should have been there , ’ Howard tells his wife next morning , as they sit over their second cup of coffee on one of the upper terraces .
14 Our picture shows the Hunterston team puzzling over their next move at one of the checkpoints .
15 The greatest test of this season has yet to come , when they play an English side with a dented pride and one where many players have still to get over their last defeat by Scotland three years ago .
16 ‘ You know , ’ ruminates Shaun Ryder , frowning over his fifth pint , after a night of stilted soul-searching , six months of silence and a whole heap of rumours , ‘ it surprises me that people ever expected anything more from us .
17 Such was his hurry to get into the clubhouse from the 18th green that he was almost bowling people over in his haste and later he admitted to feeling ‘ very down ’ , still trying to get over his first round of 76 when ‘ everything went wrong ’ .
18 And so Robert Titford , Master Mariner , took over his first command .
19 Aimar promised to give no more help to his half-brothers of Angoulême and handed over his first — and third-born sons as hostages .
20 He began to write his own verse whilst still quite young , shyly at first , correcting again and again as his ‘ second thoughts blushed over his first attempts ’ .
21 Manager Tommy Gilmour will fly to Puerto Rico in three weeks to try and bring the Camacho fight to Glasgow in January , giving Weir almost three months to get over his first ever cut in one hundred and sixty seven fights as both amateur and professional .
22 High flying Banbridge now playing with confidence took play deep into the CI half and a CI infringement allowed Wray to bring his tally to eleven points when he knocked over his fourth kick of the game .
23 However ferociously we ink over our first thoughts , history finds a way of reading them .
24 Who do you turn to when you take over your first pub with a busy passing trade and you really do not know how many staff to employ or in what capacity to employ them ?
25 Use this useless lull in your life to think through your next step or rectify a recent move .
26 Mrs Villemin had no difficulty in seeing off her first examining magistrate .
27 He 'd been there to pick her up when she fell off her first pony ; he 'd taught her to fish and to know about dogs , and whatever mischief she and Francis got up to , he never told a tale .
28 Colour swam under her skin , and she moved further into the room and closed the door , feeling as she did so that she was cutting off her last line of retreat .
29 BRITAIN 'S toughest regiment showed off its first female recruit yesterday — stunning Marie Radcliffe .
30 Among the plethora of multimedia announcements at Comdex , Norcross Georgia-based Iterated Systems Inc was showing off its first general product .
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