Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 2 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 3 | Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 5 | After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies . |
| 6 | OLDHAM boss Joe Royle is backing his old Norwich City pals to stay the course and pull off the first Premier League title . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I go to the back of the file and sort out the next complete document . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Guillaume , the third Bretonnian King , defeats a large Orc army at the Battle of Armandur and drives out the last of the Orcs from northern Bretonnia . |
| 11 | With a sigh , and a glance of regret at the clear , bright day outside , he settled down in his chair and took up the first of the tomes . |
| 12 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 13 | So , with ‘ fly away Peter ’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 16 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |
| 17 | Things would deteriorate rather quickly , for Alberto would return to his hotel in the evening with a sculpture eight to twelve inches tall under his arm and come back the next day with a piece no more than three or four inches high … |