Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 2 | On Sept. 17 , Polish inspectors in the Netherlands carried out the first inspection of a NATO member state by a unit from a Warsaw Pact country . |
| 3 | Alistair MacDonald , the director , has seen the play germinate over the last 18 months from roots in the Gaelic Youth Theatre summer school in 1991 and an experimental workshop production at the Mod Fringe in Dingwall the same year . |
| 4 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
| 5 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 6 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 7 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 8 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 9 | As the sun bakes out the last moisture from the mud , the mucus turns to parchment . |
| 10 | The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example . |
| 11 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 12 | Although the conference brought about the first international agreement on a multilateral adjustment in exchange rates , it did not prevent the collapse of the adjustable peg system . |
| 13 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 14 | Expertly , the gardener pinned down the last of the net with a wire stake . |
| 15 | ITV is involved in a race with the BBC to bring out the first film drama of his life . |
| 16 | This is , of course , a time of smokescreens so far as the Masters is concerned and to hear some of the Europeans talk over the last few days , they appear to be in need of the psychiatrist 's couch as much as anything . |
| 17 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 18 | as if to demonstrate his terrible seriousness , he orders the people to set out the next day ‘ … for the wilderness by the way to the Reed Sea ’ . |
| 19 | ( The matches go down the 19th but are then declared tied if square after that ) . |
| 20 | In 1838 a troop of Nottinghamshire dragoons and the metropolitan police were attacked with stones and bricks and in 1839 the government brought in the 5th Dragoon guards to suppress the bull-running once and for all . |
| 21 | The government closed down the last two illegally militia-operated ports on May 15 , thereby taking full control of seaborne trade for the first time in a decade . |
| 22 | Bill drew the curtains to let in the last of the twilight , then , as Faye 's eyes began to adjust , he turned to two low antique glass lamps . |
| 23 | Indeed , in November , 1915 , American radio engineers on the tower picked up the first broadcast voices beamed across the Atlantic from Arlington , Virginia . |
| 24 | Ask the customer to call back the next day , when the contents of the till will have been checked . |
| 25 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 26 | The chief rubbed out the seventh mark in the earth ; at the look on his face , Kit did not press his demand . |
| 27 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 28 | Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis . |
| 29 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 30 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |