Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guildford Machine Knitting Club meets on the third Monday of each month ( except December ) in the Salvation Army Hall , Guildford from 8pm . |
| 2 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 3 | Ten per cent of out-of-work executives counselled by one firm received job offers in the first four weeks of last year , but for the corresponding period this year the figure rose to 16 per cent . |
| 4 | In late August 1832 the West India Merchants ' Committee still attacked as thoroughly improper the abolitionist practice of pledging parliamentary candidates to immediate emancipation and publishing pledge lists in the first post-reform election . |
| 5 | Remove flower stems in the first year for a stronger bushier plant . |
| 6 | 12% have had in-patient stays in the first 9 months in the community . |
| 7 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 8 | JOHN MELLENCAMP had to cancel tour dates for the second time in a month when bass player Toby Meyers was injured in a boating accident in Saratoga , New York . |
| 9 | Jane Sixsmith led the scoring spree with two goals in each half with captain Mary Nevill twice on target before the break , and her Leicester colleague , Kath Johnson , converting penalty strokes in the 43rd and 52nd minutes . |
| 10 | Three perfectly placed corner kicks in the first 15 minutes had the Swindon goalkeeper , Digby , throwing more punches than a boxer as he beat out volleys , headers and rebounds , and his defenders helped clear off the line . |
| 11 | Neither became nation states until the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | He added that no household-name company had escaped making job cuts over the last two years . |
| 13 | It is not always possible to answer post by return , or to return telephone calls within the next few minutes . |