Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not say it in front of him , nor he in front of her , even though it is probable that he too would prefer to try living the next life differently , without Agnes . |
| 2 | That type may then be broken up or ‘ distributed ’ , if the publisher has decided to limit the first edition to a stated number , or if there is no demand for additional copies . |
| 3 | Dr A.J. Watson , former chairman , has offered to arrange the next Burns Supper . |
| 4 | He has got to take the next action , it 's up to him now . |
| 5 | A small firm in Horsham called Stonefield Omicron Electronics has agreed to sell the fourth version of the computer , the CLIP.4 . |
| 6 | ICTU has agreed to include the first point in their Agenda at their Biennial Conference . |
| 7 | We are delighted to report that Lady More has agreed to become the first president of the Society and has given us a most generous donation in memory of her husband . |
| 8 | On Dec. 6 , with the US Marine force offshore awaiting orders to land , a 100-truck aid convoy with armed guards was reported to have transported the first food aid to leave the port for over a month . |
| 9 | Yet in both types of narrative the basic question the writer has to ask to establish the next unit of text is " What happened next ? " |
| 10 | Curtis Strange has described addressing the second shot as like preparing to play with the feet on separate steps of a staircase . |
| 11 | The appearance of playback and CNC robots since 1977 is said to have begun the second generation of sophisticated units verging on being ‘ intelligent ’ . |
| 12 | Even today , tourists may see the claw-marks on a stone where Big Ears was said to have appeared the last time this ceremony was performed . |
| 13 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 14 | Or you could be sensible and stop trying to squeeze the last drop of current from the transformer ! |
| 15 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
| 16 | We arranged to go swimming the next day . |
| 17 | Abruptly she turned , determined to leave having had the last word . |
| 18 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 19 | To get stuck into Part Two you do n't have to have completed the first instalment , but you DO need to have the password . |
| 20 | Unhappily , many of the 700 subscribers must have failed to deliver the second cash instalment and take up their copies when the book was published in 1765 . |
| 21 | La Compania Aquas de Sabadell SA , Sabadell , Barcelona , and Telecom Valles SA , Terassa , Barcelona , claim to have developed the first system in Europe for reading water meters over the telephone . |
| 22 | Although the two main explanations of Labour 's growth will remain irreconcilables , the fact remains that the Labour Party did emerge to become the second party in the political system by 1922 , and a party of government by 1924 . |
| 23 | The ending of the deadlock means Rechar money will almost immediately be put to use to finance the first phase of a £158m 10-year action plan drawn up by the East Durham Task Force . |
| 24 | He said to go shopping the next day in case I was being watched . |
| 25 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 26 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 27 | His most bitter disappointment came when the music entrepreneur Phil Spector pulled back from financing a screenplay Hopper had written called The Last Movie ( it was eventually produced in 1970 ) about Hollywood 's exploitation and destruction of South American Indians . |
| 28 | It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh yes — only I 've got to catch the last bus home and it leaves at a quarter to eleven … ’ |
| 30 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |