Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 2 | And that she could n't stop thinking about him now was infuriating , never mind that the thoughts were angry ones and not the sloppy , sentimental stuff that had made her weep the first few nights after she 'd left Rome . |
| 3 | Poet Software Corp , Santa Clara , says it has the first object-oriented database system running under Microsoft Corp 's NT in the shape of Version 2.0 of the company 's Poet object database . |
| 4 | When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness . |
| 5 | Let us examine the first two phases . |
| 6 | Let us take the last five for which the right hon. Gentleman has been responsible . |
| 7 | To help you to take the first important steps , we have produced the Barclays Small Business Pack . |
| 8 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |
| 9 | According to a book I 've got it says the first ten games of that glorious start saw is in with 5 wins and five draws ( we then went and lost to palace in the last minute ) . |
| 10 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 11 | Yeah I know I watch the first one video fucked up . |
| 12 | Victor Lewis-Smith killed it , in one of his Time Out columns , with a heartfelt appeal for a gadget which would enable us to break the last tiny piece of poppadam into two equal pieces . |
| 13 | Noel Whelan had a very impressive first half ; I 'd be happy to see him start the next few matches . |
| 14 | Her strong commitment to women 's rights led her to write the first Salvadorean publication on the oppression of women , The Condition of Women in El Salvador , published in Mexico in 1961 . |
| 15 | England winger Andy Sinton bagged a glorious hat-trick but goalkeeper Neville Southall 's deliberate handball after 19 minutes saw him receive the first red card . |
| 16 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 17 | Indeed , they have a psychological mechanism in their brains which impels them to follow the first large moving thing they see after they emerge from their shells , even if it is not their mother . |
| 18 | Please could you also let me have the last two cheques debited to the account . |
| 19 | Oh did I put the second last week ? |
| 20 | Baglin quickly established a 3–0 lead in the deciding set , but his opponent was not yet ready to give up the fight , lifting himself to take the next two games . |
| 21 | Teaching my granny to suck eggs , I am sure , but did you see the last Scottish Business Insider which profiled a number of women ? |
| 22 | I , did you , did you remember the first ruddy time I ever went with you ? |
| 23 | ‘ And I 'll let you pull the next bad tooth , ’ he said and stood up , reached out for her . |
| 24 | What happens now do we try the next all play ? |
| 25 | She would stay until the first intermission , then leave him to watch the last complete performance alone . |
| 26 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |
| 27 | Then a stitch stabbed my ribs and forced me to walk the next few yards . |
| 28 | No sooner had we caught the first heady whiff of the East and altered the chemistry of our food with it than we made a quantum leap in our cultural and artistic range as well . |
| 29 | Does anyone want the last hot chestnut ? ’ |
| 30 | But just when it seemed that the former were to disappear up a one-club road to exclusive excellence , along came Newport and beat them to mark the first real return on all the investment at Rodney Parade . |