Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The therapist agreed to see David daily for the next few days in order to provide him with support .
2 It became Lescar only in the eleventh century , after having been devastated , like other sites in these desirable and prosperous pre-Pyrenean regions , first by the Moors and then by the Vikings .
3 The Chinese may not be the force they were , but they still beat England easily in the last match at Bletchley Sports Centre this week — good match it was too .
4 David Oldfield headed Leicester ahead in the 10th minute and two minutes later David Lowe volleyed in the first of his two goals .
5 Rory Underwood 's try put England ahead for the first time in the match with just seven minutes to go after a spell of relentless pressure on the home side .
6 Yet Eve had phoned Benny twice in the last week to say that life in the Dublin convent was intolerable and she would have to meet her in Dublin because otherwise she would go mad .
7 And the Welsh international keeper was to deny Middlesbrough again in the 88th minute when Gittens rose high to the right of goal to power in a close-range , angled header which Norman kept out with one hand .
8 They went begging and it needed an excellent save from goalkeeper Roberts to deny Saunders again in the 76th minute .
9 Jackman has played Martin twice in the last eight months and lost both times , but Jackman was buoyed by the fact that she had taken a game off her on each occasion .
10 ‘ Doctor Little ! ’ repeated Tom loudly for the third time .
11 In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards .
12 NICK HOGAN put Maghull ahead in the second minute and Lee Cooper increased their lead 60 seconds later .
13 Immediately after Blankley 's rocketing near-post header put Basingstoke ahead in the 40th minute , Elliott equalised .
14 After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury .
15 Germany will play France tonight for the third semi-final spot to play Scotland , while the losers will play Switzerland tomorrow morning for the final place .
16 Buffalo will know in the next couple of days whether Kelly will be fit to face Houston again in the first round of the play-offs next weekend .
17 Sammy Smyth , who almost signed for Comrades after playing a number of pre-season friendlies , put Carrick ahead in the second minute before Brian Robson edged them further in front on the stroke of half-time .
18 Sammy Smyth , who almost signed for Comrades after playing a number of pre-season friendlies , put Carrick ahead in the second minute before Brian Robson edged them further in front on the stroke of half-time .
19 For all the increase , over 21,000 people left Sussex altogether in the first thirty years of the nineteenth century .
20 CAIRO ( Reuter ) — Libya 's leader , Muammar Gaddafi , will visit Egypt tomorrow for the first time in 16 years and hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak , Egyptian presidential sources said .
21 But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist Tony Dees found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier .
22 But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist , Tony Dees , found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier .
23 But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist , Tony Dees , found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier .
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