Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 2 | She could feel him shrinking by the second . |
| 3 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 4 | I have a good old tuck-in at the school lunch and that keeps me going until the next morning . ’ |
| 5 | That was what set me thinking in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 7 | In his Championship-winning days , Smith would be without goals for four or five games then find them flowing in the next five or so . |
| 8 | Whe he has a chest infection you can hear him wheezing from the next room |
| 9 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 10 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 11 | ‘ When we finally got there , tired and bedraggled , the custodian sent us packing on the next ferry because we did n't have the 2/6 entry fee ! ’ |
| 12 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 13 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 14 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 15 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 16 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 17 | Would I be tough and wise-cracking at the end , or would they have to drag me screaming through the last door like a jelly-livered rat ? |
| 18 | Get the wing-tip holder to keep the down wind wing-tip high and apply a little aileron to prevent it falling during the first part of the take-off run . |