Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well as usual we could n't remember the last time you came , I was trying to think the last time |
| 2 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 3 | Everything below , we were sure , was exactly as it would have appeared in centuries past-apart from one major anachronism , a bright yellow construction crane , which was attempting to plant the last monolith in the stone circle . |
| 4 | Abruptly , all she wanted was to escape , escape that pitying , patronising gleam in his eyes , escape the mounting tension which was threatening to annihilate the last , precarious shreds of her self-control . |
| 5 | You 're going to take the second right , just after that pub . ’ |
| 6 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 7 | A teenager who 's aiming to become the next Paul Daniels has joined the world 's most exclusive group of magicians . |
| 8 | Joanne Conway , who is hoping to become the first woman for more than 20 years to win five successive titles , made a strong start at the Skate Electic British championships in Basingstoke . |
| 9 | At last just as she was contemplating getting the next bus home he arrived . |
| 10 | Ruth drank thirstily because it was her first priority and because she was going to enjoy the next delicious moment and wanted to savour the expectancy of it . |
| 11 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 12 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 13 | She had far more important things to think about , like how she was going to survive the next four weeks alone with a man whose quiet voice and manner hid a ruthlessness and determination that made steel look limp by comparison . |
| 14 | She was planning to go the next day . |
| 15 | We are beginning to plan the next stage of development with a target of 6500 campus-based students by the year 2000 . |
| 16 | If we are to begin to consider the second part of this question seriously we need to be able to specify what are the ‘ relevant facts of the context of utterance ’ . |
| 17 | THIS IS the day for signing in and checking out fellow schmoozers ; for ploughing through the completely bewildering gig schedule , and trying to work out just how we 're going to survive the next 100 hours without losing any important internal organs . |
| 18 | This seemed to be further corroborated when we were invited to join the second phase of a research project being undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research and the Further Education Unit . |
| 19 | We were sentenced to hang the next morning at the gallows of Montfaucon . |
| 20 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |
| 21 | Copies of Figure 11.3 are given to the sender and receivers and they are asked to repeat the first exercise using Figure 11.4 as the data to be transmitted . |
| 22 | If it had not , they were asked to ignore the next set of questions . |
| 23 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |
| 24 | In 1908 they were amalgamated to form The 4th Battalion ( TF ) . |
| 25 | Only Fontwell survived but the course must pass a 7.30am inspection if it is to avoid becoming the 27th casualty of the season . |
| 26 | During one of the many radio interviews he undertakes during the week , he is asked to name the first record he ever bought for a programme called Super DJ On Line . |
| 27 | Given the decision to opt out of the social charter in Europe can the Prime Minister confirm that he is planning to fight the next general election on the slogan ’ Vote Tory for the lowest wages , least consultation and worst employment protection in Europe ’ ? |
| 28 | Abroad , he has already attained a high respect internationally for the manner in which he is endeavouring to help the third world and to play a responsible part in eastern Europe . |
| 29 | Paul has an enviable record in both his sales and sales training performance , and he is endeavouring to become the fourth Fellow of the Professional Sales Guild . |
| 30 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |