Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the course because of playing it in my army days , and I knew where the worst of the rough was , but that did n't count for much after the first day . |
| 2 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 3 | Extra time was deadlocked until well into the second period when both Bolton full-backs moved up , Cowdrill passed square to Brown and a powerful long-range strike hurtled past Digby . |
| 4 | The goal came after midway through the second half … |
| 5 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |
| 6 | In the light and shifty winds which Conner enjoys , because they give him ‘ leverage on the opposition ’ , Stars & Stripes came from behind on the third leg to gain 65 seconds on Koch 's America to take the lead which Conner clung to tenaciously for a 1min 56sec victory . |
| 7 | The two counties met in last year 's Ulster final at Armagh and in one of the best games seen in the province all year Tyrone came from behind in the second half to pull off a memorable victory after having been reduced to fourteen players . |
| 8 | The ventral arm plates are approximately rounded pentagonal in shape becoming broader than long and rectangular on distal segments and separated except occasionally for the second and third ventral plates . |
| 9 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
| 10 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 11 | Surely Tom one of the main criteria should be placing seats in the studio theatre for something with a bit more comfortable that way perhaps the punter 's will come back more often it 's easier to make a punter come back than it is getting in there in the first place . . |
| 12 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | In England , also , complaints of the difficulty of finding capable diplomats can be heard until far into the eighteenth century ; and many agreed to serve only to put the government under a moral obligation to find some acceptable post for them at home on their return . |
| 14 | ‘ Then what are you doing out here in the first place ? ’ |
| 15 | It can be seen that when the theory of road use charging , which has been spoken of exhaustively over the last few years , is translated into practical application , many problems will arise . |
| 16 | Frank Laczko , who is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Coventry Polytechnic , worked until recently on the second EC Anti-Poverty Programme . |
| 17 | Major Barrie put in acidly : ‘ He was driven over there by a second lieutenant called Bailey , if you have any jurisdiction in this matter . |
| 18 | The results will be updated to include the additional returns referred to above in a second interim report planned for June 1985 , along with information on the findings of a follow-up survey that is to take place in Spring 1985 . |
| 19 | They would have had to have done it within three weeks anyway and I think the way they are looking at it if they do that tomorrow then they 're counting from then till the next stage . |
| 20 | The door went from there into the next cottage , now that was the open space . |
| 21 | But ceremonial and precedence none the less remained until well into the eighteenth century a factor of importance in international relations . |
| 22 | Despite falling behind twice in the first half to Liverpool 's shadow squad , the Londoners still had the determination to snatch victory with a disputed penalty . |
| 23 | A hospital scan revealed yesterday that the Irish boxer had fought from midway through the second round of the final with a cracked cheekbone after being caught with a vicious right hook . |
| 24 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 25 | There are many examples which date from well into the thirteenth century in a style not much altered from 100 years earlier . |
| 26 | This is usually because they have not been adjusted correctly , something has loosened in use or they have not been put on correctly in the first place . |
| 27 | I mean I 've lived in here for the last fourtee thirteen years and I 've lived in Northern Ireland and Bradford and all sorts . |
| 28 | And while you were , while you were using a film which you had in anyway for the next day 's performance and putting in that slot |
| 29 | The exhibition will go from now , will last from now until the twenty-second of October when all the memorabilia will be on show then . |
| 30 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |