Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 2 | Their eyes open around the ninth day . |
| 3 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 4 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 5 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 6 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 7 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
| 8 | However , by January of last year Scott was involved in arrangements with Chorley and Walker to bring in the second load , alleged Mr Burke . |
| 9 | JUST as spring brings out the first swallows , so it also motivates incoming club tours from one or more of the four home countries . |
| 10 | Manville picked up the second folder , sighing heavily . |
| 11 | At that point , the court ordered Koons to hand over the fourth sculpture , which he had kept for himself . |
| 12 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 13 | The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example . |
| 14 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 15 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 16 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 17 | As the sun bakes out the last moisture from the mud , the mucus turns to parchment . |
| 18 | Wickham bounded up the last flight , shirt-sleeved , jacket in hand . |
| 19 | The house in Denbigh Terrace , which was his home during and after his marriage to Kristen Tomassi , had been progressively colonised by the office ; Nik Powell took over the first floor ; board meetings were conducted in the lounge ; paperwork spilled into the bedrooms . |
| 20 | Felipe was still having breakfast when Maggie went down the next morning , and it caught her off guard . |
| 21 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 22 | Nicandra pounded down the second flight of the back staircase leading to the ground floor — here one imposing door marked the entrance to the hall , another was the service door into the dining room . |
| 23 | Moreover , its attempts to weed out the next Barlow Clowes are not considered impressive . |
| 24 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
| 25 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 26 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 27 | His spectacular saves kept out the first division leaders , Manchester United , in a thrilling Rumbelow 's Cup semi-final at a packed Ayresome Park . |
| 28 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 29 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 30 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |