Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings .
2 Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) .
3 Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions .
4 Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training .
5 Oh well I 'll keep the insurance company er I w er we will send them a little note in that case , saying look , you know , this is the case , it appears to be an innocent lesion she 's just been finely checked over on the eighth of October , do you feel you can now proceed ?
6 He ordered the driver and two officers to get out … and then drove off with the third towards London .
7 The Devil , wriggling out of the last of his knitted tail , wiped the shiny grease off his face and neck before strolling over .
8 I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year
9 She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing .
10 That 's despite profits going DOWN by a third to £778 million because of the hot weather .
11 And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July .
12 This is positive and increases up to the next ex dividend date , at which point the dirty price falls by the present value of the amount of the coupon payment .
13 A tiny figure is when you consider up to a third of the population is estimated to have no belief in God .
14 A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory .
15 And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July .
16 But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way .
17 But , moving on to the second of the problematic areas indicated earlier , the liberal mode itself is open to question , irrespective of its organisational context .
18 Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way .
19 Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day .
20 Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope .
21 The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches .
22 On a high-rating Sunday , they will draw up to a third of the population of Britain .
23 As Liz Hannam reports , the RSPCA devote up to a third of their time to dealing with farmers and their animals , in the society 's ceaseless crusade against cruelty .
24 He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body .
25 As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s .
26 But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges .
27 For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley .
28 So we only we only need to start off with a third of that .
29 We 've got a hearing coming up on the sixteenth of July in
30 And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ?
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