Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as I used to , one cracks walnuts by banging two of the things together , and keeps the uncracked winner to go forward the next round , will one inevitably finish Christmas with the hardest nut to crack in one 's hand ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | TIPPING Tim is favourite in all books to become only the second horse to land the Mackeson-A F Budge Cup double . |
| 4 | However , by January of last year Scott was involved in arrangements with Chorley and Walker to bring in the second load , alleged Mr Burke . |
| 5 | At that point , the court ordered Koons to hand over the fourth sculpture , which he had kept for himself . |
| 6 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 7 | Having taken the field with his directors to become surely the first board to be cheered to the rafters , he was presented with a cheque . |
| 8 | Moreover , its attempts to weed out the next Barlow Clowes are not considered impressive . |
| 9 | Ballyclare restored their lead in the 55th minute when promising Adrian Moore broke clear on the right and crossed for James Beattie to tap home the second goal . |
| 10 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |
| 11 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 12 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 13 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 14 | ITV is involved in a race with the BBC to bring out the first film drama of his life . |
| 15 | as if to demonstrate his terrible seriousness , he orders the people to set out the next day ‘ … for the wilderness by the way to the Reed Sea ’ . |
| 16 | It is scientific knowledge that enables an astronomer to predict when the next eclipse of the sun will occur or a physicist to explain why the boiling-point of water is lower than normal at high altitudes . |
| 17 | Well , undergraduates getting very , very drunk and , you know , throwing up and leaving pools of vomit around for staff to clear up the next day erm , you know , one might say well are the college staff the victim of that . |
| 18 | Given Richardson 's concern to fill out the second volume , it may be assumed that very few of Mary Leapor 's works escaped publication . |
| 19 | COLCHESTER 'S quest to become only the second club to complete the non-League double continues today , with a 6,000-plus crowd expected at Layer Road for the Vauxhall FA Trophy semi-final clash with Macclesfield . |
| 20 | In the end it was left to Jose-Maria Canizares , the oldest man in either side , to secure the point which assured Europe of a tie , before the final four Americans on the course won their matches to produce just the second stalemate in a series stretching back to 1927 , and the first for 20 years . |
| 21 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We wo n't be in a hurry to get away the next time , will we ? |
| 24 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 25 | I hope Aldus manage to find a way to speed up the next version so that we can all enjoy IntelliDraw , irrespective of class of machine . |
| 26 | Ask the customer to call back the next day , when the contents of the till will have been checked . |
| 27 | Brian Wisenden and Miles Keenleyside , of the University of Western Ontario , have spent the past two years studying the convict cichlid Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum ( named for its distinctive stripes ) , a species already known to have the common cichlid habit of forming monogamous pairs to bring up the next generation . |
| 28 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 29 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |