Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Masters he blew his chances by pushing an over-clubbed second shot into the crowd to take a bogey-five on the last hole and lose by a stroke to Jack Nicklaus after leading going into the last round . |
| 2 | Liverpool 's Rob Jones expects to be fit after failing to re-appear in the second half of the 1–0 defeat against Aston Villa because of a calf injury . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman does not have to worry about the normal courtesy of staying to listen to the next speaker . |
| 4 | It was stripped of this status when its majority Tatar population was deported to Central Asia , accused of having collaborated during the Second World War with the Nazi German occupiers . |
| 5 | Jan. 1587 , lie bound to good behaviour Elizabeth Watson of Halling 20 shillings and William Symons 10 shillings , also Henry Bray , Yeoman 10 shillings , all of Halling to appear at the next quarter sessions at Maidstone and in the meanwhile to be of good behaviour . |
| 6 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 7 | I have a lot of thinking to do over the next couple of months . |
| 8 | Experiments assessing the difference between the sleep achieved on successive nights in the laboratory have shown that there is indeed some evidence of difficulty in getting to sleep on the first night . |
| 9 | This contrasts with developmental dyslexia which is an impairment , possibly congenital , in learning to read in the first place . |
| 10 | The tendency of moral philosophers , thinks Moore , is to rush into the third question , without having dealt with the first two . |
| 11 | Mr Reilly , a veteran conservationist , scored early by helping to push through the first revision of the clean-air law in 13 years . |
| 12 | Hitherto departments had not been allowed to carry forward underspends into the next financial year though the Treasury was allowed to penalize departments by deducting overspends from the next year 's targets . |