Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 've said you want to bring your people out of the Dark Ages and into the nineteenth century . |
| 32 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
| 33 | This takeaway sermonette is usually tucked away after the opening prayer and before the second hymn , during which the children leave church ( in the months when Sunday School is in session ) . |
| 34 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 35 | Return back towards the airport , driving under Terminal Building and across the first roundabout . |
| 36 | Novas turned around 27–26 in front , but met a more solid defence and by the ninth minute had scored only five to Arena 's 15 . |
| 37 | But back came Spurs and in the eighth minute , they took the all important lead . |
| 38 | In 1981 and 1982 the group had visited the test site with their ship the Vega and on the last occasion had been attacked and arrested by the French Navy as they attempted to enter the 12-mile territorial limit . |
| 39 | In Northampton , the Pratts were innholders from the reign of Henry VIII to George I , the Lyons family lasted for four generations and in the mid-seventeenth century had three brothers who were prominent in the trade , and the Peaches eventually acquired quite a chain of inns . |
| 40 | The convoy was halted for a time by protesters at Dalreoch , on the Dumbarton-Helensburgh road , again at Helensburgh and on the third occasion at the protest camp at the gates to the base . |
| 41 | Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility . |
| 42 | For 133 days in 1988 Lyle had led the US Money List , he had won the Phoenix , Greensboro and Masters titles and in the first months of 1989 he twice came second . |
| 43 | The sun as the source of light , heat and life was worshipped from very early times and from the Second Dynasty became a predominant deity . |
| 44 | The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea . |
| 45 | In many of the orchids , the bees slip and fall through the flower or into a trap , for example in Stanhopea candida in Amazonia , pollination is by Eulaema moscaryi , which ‘ falls through ’ the flower after collecting the scent ; in so doing , it brushes against the pollinia and in the next flower these are lodged in the stigmatic cavity . |
| 46 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 47 | But titles and businesses ca n't survive as landmarks and in the last advertising revenue increasingly moved into the proliferating newspaper magazine supplements . |
| 48 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |
| 49 | It has an interesting history revealed in the medieval walls which encircle the town and in the 16th century castle with archaeological museum . |
| 50 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 51 | I was only on the drug for seven days and by the seventh day , I 'd suddenly turned into some sort of maniac . |
| 52 | I invite er Mr and his supporters to get out of the age of Dickens and into the twentieth century . |
| 53 | Trainees would attend for forty weeks and in the second half of their training they would pass on skills acquired ( e.g. in computing or photography ) to the new intake of trainees . |
| 54 | Both teams needed to win this match and in the first half , there was only one winner ; Gloucester . |
| 55 | Steve Moria 's hat-trick gave Cardiff a 3-1 lead and despite the first period ending 3-3 , the other two were about Racers receiving a harsh lesson in ice hockey as Moria ( with three more ) , John Lawless , and Ian Cooper sealed an 8-3 win . |
| 56 | Heisenberg did not immediately appreciate this last point and in the first draft of his paper it was not considered . |
| 57 | But much wider issues than the construction of the Finance Act 1976 have been raised in these appeals and for the first time this House has been asked to consider a detailed argument upon the extent to which reference can properly be made before a court of law in the United Kingdom to proceedings in Parliament recorded in Hansard . |
| 58 | They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands . |
| 59 | I found the proper cracks and set off jamming in between the bulging , blocky flutes that reminded so much of the solid Sennen cracks and of the second pitch of Doorpost — but they were rounded , too , and the cracks not deep — in places like a Lundy cliff , complete with grit and tufts of grass and alarming rattles . |
| 60 | Mr Smith condemned him as the man who ‘ designed and delivered the disaster ’ that has pushed the nation into economic crisis and into the Second Division of Europe . |