Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SO WE have The Last Wilderness in the Northern Pennines an area of outstanding natural beauty . |
| 2 | Below we publish the first part . |
| 3 | Off we went the next day and had nearly got to the shop when Dad spotted a relief officer . |
| 4 | Will you please try and act it out like we did the Twelfth Night the bit with Mrs , and see whether you can revive your idea of why Johnson , what is the nature of , of Johnson 's comic art . |
| 5 | Thankfully we had the last laugh when that french fellow ( I ca n't remember his name ) scored the winner . |
| 6 | Now we have the Next Steps initiative and the Citizen 's Charter Unit . |
| 7 | Today we have the first spring rain , which the Chinese regard as very precious . |
| 8 | Here we get the first hint of why those in the occult and the New Age of paganism use special techniques and paraphernalia . |
| 9 | Here we print the last selection . |
| 10 | Here we encounter the first attempt to undo the category of ‘ man ’ , an enterprise which has caused more distress than most in the recent history of the social sciences . |
| 11 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 12 | And then we have the third issue which is site selection and here they are at one with the local communities when they say this particular er selected site has been driven by economic consideration and not environmental consideration . |
| 13 | We just do the first thing and then we do the second thing . |
| 14 | There we go the last wee drop . |
| 15 | Remember how we missed the last bus because I was kissing you — we did n't know where we were , or what we were doing , did we ? |
| 16 | I mean you 'll spend just what you wan na spend in Spain , I mean like we , the night , when we went the first time , we took an ice box , but oh , we |
| 17 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 18 | Here is where we get the first hint of dialogue between the atmospheric gases and the radiations from the sky : for the radiations provide the energy for many of these reactions to occur . |
| 19 | We wanted to see the place where we thought the 20th century had begun . |
| 20 | It is also worth noting here that the only mid-Tertiary movements in northern Europe that can be called an orogeny are in Spitsbergen , where we find the last expression of an Atlantic compressive line clearly preserved down the west coast , presumably reflecting the continued grinding together of the northernmost tip of the European plate with that of Greenland . |