Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
| 2 | We 're holding an arm-wrestling and spinach-risotto evening at the Cock and Pullet in Poplar and we 'd very much like you to do a twenty-five minute cabaret and cut the first slice of a twelve-metre onion quiche , baked by MOLES , you know , Mothers of Optometrists Lesbians , Esperantists and Social Security Clerks . ’ |
| 3 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 4 | Though one of the youngest dogs in training at Romford — he is still officially classified as a puppy — PJ has already demonstrated a fine turn of paw , winning over 400 metres earlier this month and cracking the 25-second barrier for the first . |
| 5 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 6 | Corbett made his way through the thick clogged sand and entered the first one . |
| 7 | Allen walked deftly along the rotten trunk and leapt the last eight feet to the further bank , making a scuffle in the mud where he landed . |
| 8 | Do n't bother would be more honest , for he prefers to have the kitchen to himself in the early morning , to prepare his own simple breakfast and enjoy the first cigarette of the day undisturbed . |
| 9 | And always it gave time to fit the second shaft and loose the second volley , and redouble the boiling turmoil that was held at a distance by nothing more deadly — but there was nothing more deadly ! — than cloth-yard shafts of wood and steel flighted with a handful of feathers . |
| 10 | Skiing was one of the best-kept secrets in the world until Mathias Zdarsky invented downhill or Alpine skiing and opened the first real ski school near Vienna by the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | At Great Bedwyn we stop for welcome break and cheer the first of the singles through . |
| 12 | The Tsar wavered briefly and then , urged by Stolypin and others to stand firm , he rejected any step which might lead to parliamentary government and dissolved the First Duma . |
| 13 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 14 | Bradford thereafter took the lead in the provision of medical inspection on a large scale and established the first school treatment clinic , developments which owed much to the energy of Margaret McMillan . |
| 15 | At least I do n't think so , ’ I told her , but she just smiled and told me she had no further use for me that day and to call the next day which was to be a school holiday . |
| 16 | Accelerating up to Mach I.8 , he took the Foxbat over the Mongolian border and began the first of his two runs down the Sinkiang-Uighur plateau . |
| 17 | When a certain number of choices have been logged , the computer will wipe the screen clean , " breed " from the preferred biomorph and display the next generation of mutant progeny . |
| 18 | A drawing attributed to the Persian artist Dust Muhammad , dating from the mid-sixteenth century and depicting the first scene from the tale of ‘ Haftvad and the Worm ’ , bears the estimate of £25–35,000 ( $45–60,000 ) . |
| 19 | He took the receiver firmly out of her hand , listened for the dialling tone and dialled the second number . |
| 20 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 21 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
| 22 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 23 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 24 | He took a blow on his right leg and missed the second half against Villa . |
| 25 | What do you do — put your ideas to one side and spend the next few months feeling deflated ; or do you take out a Midland Personal Loan now and enjoy the benefits of your purchase , paying the money back in easy stages ? |
| 26 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 27 | It 's just a man failing to reappear , that 's all — now you see him , now you do n't that 's the only thing that 's real : here one minute and gone the next and never coming back — an exit , unobtrusive and unannounced , a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on , until , finally , it is heavy with death . |
| 28 | ‘ It makes you realise your life can be here one minute and gone the next , ’ Alison told her mum in a trans-Atlantic telephone call . |
| 29 | She had spent all afternoon trying to ask Nanny more , but Nanny had been in a funny mood , laughing one minute and crying the next , and not making any sense of anything she said . |
| 30 | ‘ Yer can be paddlin' one minute and swimmin' the next . ’ |