Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Then what are you doing out here in the first place ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | United look free from any relegation worries now … this was a good point away from home … they held until late in the second half when Ward hit the equaliser … |