Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a ‘ loop ’ ( ( 5 ) d-(5)f ) while the listener establishes the siting of the aerial but having established the options the speaker then goes on to indicate the next step of the route — ( ( 5 ) i ) . |
| 2 | Brigadier Smithson , who was apparently due to go on leave the next day , rang Southern Command and managed to arrange that he should go straight to London by train after the conference . |
| 3 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 4 | But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June . |
| 5 | She has thereby taken the first step towards adult sexuality in developing a wish for a baby . |
| 6 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 7 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment . |
| 8 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 9 | An appeal for funds has just raised the first £100,000 , enabling the Museum to further improve the facilities offered to the visitors to this already fascinating centre of British aviation and motoring . |
| 10 | DEVELOPERS are planning to clone an historic Liverpool terrace which has just undergone the first phase of a multi-million pound facelift . |
| 11 | ‘ My God , ’ she said , sounding a bit like a vicar who has just discovered the Third World , ‘ this makes one 's own problems seem pretty small , does n't it ? ’ |
| 12 | André has just delivered the third baby this week . |
| 13 | Charles , who has just failed the first year of a law degree and is hard up , put up a notice on the fence : " Danger — Keep Out — No Liability Accepted . " |
| 14 | Cypress has just got the first silicon on the HyperSparc CPU , according to Electronic Engineering Times , and it 's reportedly almost completely functional . |
| 15 | Graham Taylor 's sidekick said : ‘ He has already achieved the first step by playing in the friendly against Spurs and it will be a very big step to get into a competitive game where there will be no quarter given or asked . |
| 16 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 17 | The region 's Women 's Desk has already entered the second year of its life . |
| 18 | - A letter appears in a national newspaper expressing disbelief that the writer has already spotted the first penny-for-the-guy collector/Christmas tree/artificial snow sprayed on shop window/Valentine cards on sale . |
| 19 | Thousands of Taiwanese rallied yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of an anti-government riot and demand the release of dissidents involved in the 1979 incident . |
| 20 | You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size . |
| 21 | Corporate Wedgwood has also received the first order for its new Caspian pattern for Amberley Castle , Arundel — the only 900-year-old castle in the world which is used as an hotel . |
| 22 | Today he has also become the first man to drive across Langjökull , and the first to drive across Drangajökull . |
| 23 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 24 | In the UK policy has typically followed the second route , seeking to regulate rather than remove monopolies . |
| 25 | A similar exercise will also be carried out to fix the first review date in outstanding mandatory life sentence cases where this has not already been done . |
| 26 | Following his withdrawal from this week 's British Players ' Championship in Bromley due to a back injury , the British Open has now become the next target for Mark Maclean . |
| 27 | The United Kingdom has now taken the first step towards European Monetary Union which is intended to lead eventually to a single European currency . |
| 28 | Coming soon are a new wetsuit and high cut trousers and Nigel has now finished the first sea kayak with another on the way . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm so pinched for time that I race around grabbing the first thing I see . ’ |
| 30 | Erm , the first one is called a lapse erm , and that happens when the person who 's speaking , has n't selected the next speaker , or nobody who 's self-selected . |