Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a facility for drawing up the next plan in the light of the |
| 2 | That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her . |
| 3 | " I 'd really like to mail a follow-up letter to all the people who sent bought more than £50 worth within 3 weeks of sending out the last brochure . " |
| 4 | She was quite sure she had surprised them in the act of carrying out the next stage of the deception concerning the Jourdain-Durance paintings . |
| 5 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 6 | ‘ But , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ for the moment we are concerned with the Conablaiche , and with turning back the First Herald . |
| 7 | Yet the great mystery of schizophrenia remains — it is still unclear precisely what role , if any , such factors have had in bringing about the first onset of the disorder . |
| 8 | In marital therapy it is often noticeable that although a couple are asking for help to sort out their problem , so that they may have the closeness and intimacy for which they yearn , fear overcomes hope , and whenever things start to improve one of them can be relied upon to start up the next quarrel . |
| 9 | They then used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into covering their alleged losses , before carrying out the second stage of a ‘ double sting ’ stealing £1.2 million of the £1.8 million insurance pay-out from their company , London-based Inca Gemstones . |
| 10 | There was no hesitation in working out the next number in the sequence — 13 . |
| 11 | He 's got ta stick at it , y'know , because if … the discharger … [ says ] something unkind … you 've got ta go back the next week , the next week , and the next week . |
| 12 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 14 | Indeed it was used to teach such pilots as Flt Sub-Lt Warneford who was awarded a Victoria Cross for shooting down the first Zeppelin . |
| 15 | When a popular war hero emerged , like Lt William Leefe Robinson , awarded the VC in 1916 for shooting down the first enemy airship over British soil , the jobbing printers , metal benders and celluloid crimpers worked overtime . |
| 16 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 17 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 18 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 19 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 20 | You can ‘ fool ’ the drive by covering up the second capacity signalling hole . |