Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn clutched the cast-iron railing and wondered for the first time why her legs felt so shaky and weird , why her stomach was churning so violently . |
| 2 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 3 | She finished the sandwich and started on the second , eating hungrily . |
| 4 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |
| 5 | Many of these features of the modern world were only the surface manifestations of the much greater structural changes begun in early industrialism and accelerated since the Second World War . |
| 6 | He turned right and went half-way along the corridor and knocked at the fourth door . |
| 7 | He pulled out a bundle and looked at the first address , but he did n't recognise it . |
| 8 | SAM Torrance finished three shots ahead of his nearest challenger after the third round of the Kronenbourg Open at Salo but came off the last green a disappointed man . |
| 9 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 10 | The officer pointed towards the Hungarian frontier post and descended upon the next vehicle in the queue . |
| 11 | The offensive was launched on 18 June but was deeply unpopular with much of the rank and file and collapsed in the first week of July . |
| 12 | To illustrate , we will reconsider the last example and assume that the individual did not close his position after five days but waited for the last trading day which was the following day . |
| 13 | Delegations from Algeria and Yemen travelled to Moscow but withdrew at the last moment in solidarity with the Palestinian delegation . |
| 14 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 15 | I crumpled this ticket and waited for the next to be called . |
| 16 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 17 | She snapped shut the diary and looked at the next piece of paper . |
| 18 | But the equaliser was always on offer and arrived in the 73rd minute . |
| 19 | If I pressed my eye flat to the ground and looked into the next garden , the big bushes there with thick tall stems and flat leaves seemed part of a mysterious tropical forest . |
| 20 | A few minutes after Amiss had gone Sunil cleared up the fragments of cheese and biscuits , deposited them neatly in the waste-paper basket , picked up a couple of books and some blank paper and descended to the next storey . |
| 21 | Setting the briefcase back down , she dug the notes out of the pocket and turned to the last page , smiling rather nastily . |
| 22 | She had n't done that she said since she was my age and came to the last page of Le Rouge et le Noir . |
| 23 | Nadine clicked her tongue and smiled for the first time . |
| 24 | Miss Potts took not the slightest notice but swept into the second form classroom and the door shut . |
| 25 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 26 | European car sales in 1992 sustained previous record levels but declined in the first quarter of calendar year 1993 . |
| 27 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 28 | Outside a grand villa in the same city , a priest in an assortment of ramshackle clothing stopped his mule in the gateway , descended by lifting a leg and bellowed to the first person he met , which was Tobie . |
| 29 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 30 | There was the cancellation of the second Test after the Guyanese government decided to deport Robin Jackman because of his South African connections ; and then came the real tragedy , when Ken Barrington had a heart attack and died during the third Test in Barbados . |