Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
| 3 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 4 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
| 5 | I should need to go in on the eleventh to clear up I expect . |
| 6 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 7 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 8 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc has come out with the first major product from its European Software Centre in Neuchatel , Switzerland : AutoCAD Release 11 for the IBM RS/6000 line of workstations . |
| 9 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 10 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 11 | Harris Corp 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Computer Systems Division has moved up to the second generation 88110 version of Motorola Inc 's RISC family with the Night Hawk 5000 series — which ca n't be called Night Hawk in the UK . |
| 12 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 13 | And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis . |
| 14 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 15 | SCOTLAND HAS failed to fill the entrepreneurial gap which has opened up over the last decade since the decline of the nationalised and heavy industries , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will acknowledge next week . |
| 16 | That is the view of Northern Ireland Economy Minister Robert Atkins who has spoken out for the first time about Mrs Major , wife of his long time friend , the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society . |
| 18 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 19 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 20 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
| 21 | It is surprising how much this has widened out in the last twelve months , to be honest . |
| 22 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 23 | Meantime , the Irish stay sober to win professionally , but their club amateurs ca n't wait to get back to the 19th hole . |
| 24 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
| 25 | WHAT do you do when the date and time of your official opening has been set , the invitations sent out and your guest of honour has to drop out at the last minute due to matters of national importance ? |
| 26 | Right , anything else that 's erm needs raising out of the last meeting ? |
| 27 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 28 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 29 | They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) . |
| 30 | Spalding and Miss Robinson were sent to the lift , told to get out at the second floor , turn right , and go to the rooms numbered 207 and 208 . |