Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [v-ing] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 2 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 3 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 4 | I do n't er I know you have n't got another one , I remember you emptying the first bag . |
| 5 | On arrival we find ourselves ringing the second bell . |
| 6 | It could mean him missing the next match as a result . |
| 7 | In October , 1991 , The Rt Hon Angela Rumbold , CBE , MP , who at that time chaired the Government 's ministerial group on women 's issues , presented Georgina Wicks ( 14 ) of La Saint Union Convent School , London , with a certificate to commemorate her becoming the 100,000th girl to gain experience of technology on a WISE vehicle since the beginning of the WISE campaign . |
| 8 | That set me watching the next time I was on a flight and to realising what a useful transaction it was . |
| 9 | If this army moved west and then south , there was no German force to prevent its taking the Eighth Army in rear and crushing it against Samsonov 's Second Army . |
| 10 | One day America may find itself facing the last generation of its own weapons , which it had sold to its enemy in friendlier times . |
| 11 | What stops us taking the first step and using it ? |