Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 2 | The Trinity Area , a serviceable enough place to live in the 17th century , was fast becoming a slum for the destitute . |
| 3 | How is it that this problem seems only to have emerged in the last few years . |
| 4 | So much had happened in the last few months . |
| 5 | Brendan Ormsby 's transfer from Leeds United to Cardiff City was called off yesterday after the defender decided he did not want to play in the Third Division . |
| 6 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 7 | of the value of the scholarship and not bother to apply in the first place , but the major scholarship was worth at its maximum a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 8 | Distillery sub Philip Dykes probably had the visitors best chance to score in the 66th minute but he headed a Tom Cleland cross well past when he should have done better . |
| 9 | But Truman did not hesitate to intervene in the next crisis in the Far East , when North Korean troops invaded the South Korean Republic on 25 June 1950 ( CORE , pp. 150–51 ) . |
| 10 | Tessa and Adam 's character Frank finally get married in the next series , in a magnificent old Russian church in St Petersburg . |
| 11 | Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole . |
| 12 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 13 | Both players easily held serve in the second set but Stich romped through the tie-break 7–2 , clinching victory in 82 minutes when Becker drove a backhand into the net . |
| 14 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 15 | As for tomorrow 's race , Jeremy ca n't realistically expect to finish in the first ten first time out . |
| 16 | Equal , originally due in December , is now scheduled to ship in the second quarter . |
| 17 | Equal , originally due in December , is now scheduled to ship in the second quarter . |
| 18 | We really do belong in the Second Division but this should not and need not be so . |
| 19 | Well indeed , and er , having got in , I suppose they proceeded to entertain your father with the music he did n't particularly want to hear in the first place ? |
| 20 | Despite the new marriage codes , common-law partnerships also remained popular — and may even have increased in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 22 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 23 | Yet the need is such that our spending at home and overseas has doubled in the last two years and still vital pieces of work in the U K and overseas await funding . |
| 24 | Consumption in period t + 5 will therefore be unchanged : But investment will fall again : Since investment falls and consumption stays the same , income in period t + 5 will be lower than in period t + 4 : So far in the analysis , the single increase in autonomous investment of £10 has caused income to rise from £1,000 to £1,025 in the first four time periods and then to start to fall in the fifth . |
| 25 | Timothy Dalton is officially contracted to star in the next Bond adventure but a legal row between MGM and producer Cubby Broccoli means no final casting decision will be made before Christmas . |
| 26 | Leeds eventually managed to score in the 85th minute , when Cantona pounced on a Lee Chapman nod-down , but by then it was far too late for them to make a miraculous recovery . |
| 27 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 28 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 29 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 30 | And then it would all be over — this crazy situation which should never have happened in the first place . |