Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As each target is completed the client encounters the next , until all targets are overcome . |
| 2 | Repeat the exercise to calibrate the second pickup winding and the instrument is ready for use . |
| 3 | Oh , let there be someone around , she prayed silently , as she made the car fly the last few metres . |
| 4 | It also provided a basis for the subsequent investigation , encouraging the analysts to approach the second phase in a structured and methodical manner . |
| 5 | Both should make the quarter-finals following the second round on Saturday night , Lisglass being well drawn in trap five in heat six while Greenane Squire , one of Ger McKenna 's hopes , has a more difficult hurdle in the third heat which features the Antrim-based bitch Ballinderry Love who wears the red sheet and the Davy Lennon-trained Leading Escort in six . |
| 6 | Johansson and Rumar ( 1966 ) stopped over 1,000 drivers by the roadside 710m along the road from a road sign placed there by the experimenters and asked the drivers to describe the last road sign they had seen . |
| 7 | Anthony Coburn got the commission to write the first story by a notable stroke of good fortune . |
| 8 | The increases were met by a series of strikes and protest demonstrations which , together with the threat of a national strike , led the government to withdraw the second price rise on Dec. 10 . |
| 9 | Kenny then excelled in the higher sphere and helped the Palace to gain the 2nd Division championship with the club 's best-ever defensive record , and to reach the top of the Football League in September 1979 . |
| 10 | If all goes smoothly , she now has the chance to become the first ‘ young British designer ’ to be internationally recognised ( oddly , in the fashion business , designers are believed to be as young as their clothes look , which , in Hamnett 's case , is about 19 ) . |
| 11 | The move to school-led INSET , in Leeds as elsewhere , has the potential to meet the first two of these requirements , but not necessarily the third . |
| 12 | Bill received the medal to mark the 40th anniversary of the ending of the second world war . |
| 13 | Disaster struck as Birdseye — white bearded , pipe-smoking Jack Lammiman — sailed the Atlantic to mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus 's voyage of discovery . |
| 14 | Thus , not only will the Cavalier beat the Mondeo to become the first medium-sized saloon to boast one as standard but it will , Vauxhall stressed , have the bigger ( and by implication , better ) US-style bag rather than the smaller ( and , by implication , less effective ) Eurobag . |
| 15 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 16 | The Maldives government also claimed the right to host the fifth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) instead of Sri Lanka , which as current chair had been due to do so in 1989 , but which had refused owing to the continuing presence in Sri Lanka of Indian troops [ see also p. 37357 ] . |
| 17 | They also welcomed the prospect of a unified Germany ; reaffirmed the commitment to reduce the Third World 's debt burden , specifically supporting proposals to extend repayment periods put forward by the Paris Club of creditor countries ; and reiterated the commitment to combat drug trafficking . |
| 18 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 19 | Extend the selection to include the second sentence |
| 20 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
| 21 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 22 | Telecine now gets the direction to run the first piece of 16mm film — the familiar opening graphics sequence together with the sound-on-film theme music . |
| 23 | It requires the reader to write the next sentence |
| 24 | To start the game give the first player the bottle or jar and ask him to hold it on his head . |
| 25 | The next stage in the work , Mackenzie says , will be to produce a real-time version of the system , using a Texas Instruments TMS320C30 DSP chip , which will be able to deliver a short sequence of the waveform , while doing the maths to generate the next section . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |
| 27 | At Reading the unit joined the 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade , and thence to Churn Down on 31 August , where the 2nd Mounted Division was being formed . |
| 28 | If you do , make a third column and ask the LH to say the first and second words in the " different " column , then the first and third , etc. , as you tick off in the third column the ones that are now different from the new no. 1 . |
| 29 | This in turn made the looking harder , but eased the pressure to accept the first thing that came along . |
| 30 | The first print will be finished next month and a secular print will take shape showing Dunfermline at Martinmas , showing the public enjoying the last feast day before winter . |