Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 2 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 3 | Yes , he said , I should go , and he would n't come , cos he ai n't got no answer to it you see , anyway I went and I started back the next morning , he called me back . |
| 4 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 5 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 6 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
| 7 | And he set up the third , after 44 minutes , with a 20-yard effort that Strakosha could only shove out . |
| 8 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 9 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 10 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 11 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 12 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 13 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 14 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
| 15 | When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte . |
| 16 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 17 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 18 | I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’ |
| 19 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 20 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 21 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 22 | As they drove out the next funeral cortège was coming up the drive . |
| 23 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 24 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 25 | Naturally he he wanted to keep his place open and when he got up the next morning somebody had painted the side of the van completely over . |
| 26 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 27 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 28 | The combination roared along Castle Walk , echoing into the empty courtyard of the Berkeley Hunt kennels as it careered up the last hill into the tiny village . |
| 29 | As he strode down the 18th in the morning alongside Parry , the pair looking like the leaders of the Lilliput Open , he appeared every inch of his 64 ( to Parry 's 66 ) a champion . |
| 30 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |