Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 2 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 3 | At least 12 other women candidates went through to the second round of voting . |
| 4 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 5 | Nino came through to the third jump off but only one , Germany 's Frank Sloothaak , on the high jump specialist Optiebeurs Golo , could go clear again . |
| 6 | COLIN STEPHENS was tackled onto the Stradey Park terraces , and out of the East v West game , as cup holders Llanelli moved through to the fifth round of the SWALEC Cup with a 54-3 win over St Albans . |
| 7 | The successful delivery of the party 's policy review this week was capped when the conference agreed yesterday to the next major change Mr Kinnock intends to carry through : a diminution in the overwhelming dominance of the union block vote . |
| 8 | Mrs Varden turned over to the next page ; then went back again to the bottom line over leaf to be quite sure of the last words ; and then went on reading with an appearance of the deepest interest and study . |
| 9 | the water got up to the second step from the top , but , when , instead of turning right into my road if you 'd keep straight on |
| 10 | It was non-stop activity as one event moved on to the next , together with a feast of fizzy drinks , buckets of ice cream , crisps and many balloons . |
| 11 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 12 | Catherine reacted furiously to the first major attack on serfdom and autocracy , Journey from Petersburg to Moscow ( 1790 ) by A. D. Radishchev ( 1749–1802 ) . |
| 13 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 14 | Twenty-eight years ago Liverpool beat Arsenal 3-2 and 20,000 people tuned in to the first edition to hear Kenneth Wolstenholme describe the action . |
| 15 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 16 | Conroy continued up to the next landing . |
| 17 | Kirov listened attentively to the first few bars . |
| 18 | But Doyle listened right to the last word of the News . |
| 19 | It was much later , perhaps an hour , wind belting , when Tetsu came along to the 17th . |
| 20 | Almost 35 million Americans tuned in to the first , two-hour pilot , making it the most watched TV movie of the season . |
| 21 | The three players walked off to the next tee . |
| 22 | After I started with Veronica , Mrs D went back to the First Spiritualists . ’ |
| 23 | At sixteen , Coleby left school with two ‘ O ’ levels , while Peter went on to the sixth form . |
| 24 | Crosby-born Shirli-Ann Siddall put up a courageous fight against third seed Mary Joe Fernandez , but the French Open finalist edged through to the second round with a 6–4 7–5 victory . |
| 25 | the cherry and whites won through to the last eight by beating London Scottish at Kingsholm on Saturday … the score twenty … to seven |
| 26 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 27 | Gloucester won 14 -3 and Nottingham dropped down to the second division … this time around the Kingsholm men are looking over their shoulders … but those relegation worries were eased last Saturday with that 18-6 win over London Irish … tonight it 's a club match no league points to be won or lost but Gloucester want every win they can get |
| 28 | Only Chelsea 's £105,000 bill in 1991 for payments to former captain Graham Roberts tops the penalty dished out to the Third Division promotion-chasers yesterday . |
| 29 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 30 | As Penelope mounted further to the third floor where she and the other lodger had their rooms , she was relieved to hear the limpid notes of a recorder playing ‘ Brother James 's Air ’ . |