Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird .
2 Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again .
3 Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again .
4 It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit .
5 As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament .
6 He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again .
7 And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere .
8 Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months .
9 Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr .
10 So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up .
11 He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted .
12 Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘
13 However , some way or other , it was always washed out the next day and back to normal . ’
14 Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 .
15 Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years .
16 He had called to ask her advice about the small dinner party he intended to give in the next week or so .
17 At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on !
18 I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it .
19 There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line .
20 Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list .
21 er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't
22 ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach .
23 You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ?
24 But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ?
25 We will erase or cross out the second word and substitute the word ‘ thou ’ .
26 Turn over the last page and the credits begin , ‘ The people in this novel are fictitious , the background of public events is not ’ .
27 ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting .
28 If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items .
29 If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ?
30 By the terms of the Tomlin order the appellants agreed to pay off the second charge and to grant a further charge to the plaintiff for the purpose of securing payment to the plaintiff of the sum of £150,000 , such payment being one of the terms of the agreement made between the parties .
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