Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outside-half thereby became only the second player , after Neil Bennett in the 1970s , to score 300 points in a season for Bedford . |
| 2 | Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius . |
| 3 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 4 | The various forms seem to increase by division of the bulbs — and clumps can get both dense and reluctant to flower — so divide up every second season or so . |
| 5 | It was , therefore , with a certain displeasure , that I received , one Friday evening , Nigel 's announcement that he had been sent details of a converted mill in Wales and we 'd better drive up the next morning to take a look at it . |
| 6 | He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs . |
| 7 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 9 | His three marriage break-ups have been traumatic , but he does not rule out a fourth attempt . |
| 10 | For Christine , a nursery school teacher living near Manchester , now that most the ‘ teething troubles ’ with Anna are over , there is only one sadness : that she did not bring back a second child . |
| 11 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
| 12 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 13 | The book has already sold out a sixth edition . |
| 14 | Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items . |
| 15 | Blaina always felt that they had the ability to go up last season so , to ensure that they do not miss out a second time , a new team manager was recruited and given the task of harnessing the club 's talent . |
| 16 | Now six months behind in getting version one out the door , SAG has just pulled together the first snapshot of technologies which the specification will use . |
| 17 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 18 | Some would have said that he had not taken even the first step , since he had been invested irregularly with his pastoral staff by the king . |
| 19 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 20 | PETER EBDON yesterday became only the third player to compile two 147 breaks in professional snooker tournaments . |
| 21 | However , some way or other , it was always washed out the next day and back to normal . ’ |
| 22 | They always knew where the next offensive was because they were making maps for them . |
| 23 | Rapidly gulping down the first drink ( or starting on spirits before changing to beer or wine ) may be indicative of craving for the " feel " of alcohol . |
| 24 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |
| 25 | He would have a lot more wired down the next day . |
| 26 | And the company also rolled out the second generation of its fault-tolerant Redundant Array of Inexpensive Systems environment , which it claims extends the RAID redundant disk array to a higher level . |
| 27 | And the company also rolled out the second generation of its fault tolerant Redundant Array of Inexpensive Systems ( RAIS ) environment , which it claims extends the RAID redundant disk array to a higher level . |
| 28 | The outside painting was thoroughly carried out every seventh year , the two downstairs rooms — the front room and kitchen , every fourteen . |
| 29 | At the DOS prompt ( > ) pressing F3 will automatically bring up the last line you typed . |
| 30 | If it is run twice on similar data , it will probably work better the second time . |