Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Last March he suffered a second agonising defeat in the Gold Cup when Cool Ground proved just too good , and he then lost his French crown when the ground at Auteuil for this July 's Grand Steeplechase came up unsuitably soft and he could only struggle round in eighth place .
2 Cos he , he 's , he 's only stood about for first hour anyway .
3 She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning .
4 Supply landing operation already laid on to last detail with Mid .
5 Several of the changes Mr Major announced will not come in until next year , and their effects will hardly be noticed for a while after that .
6 Nenna 's children neither showed any interest in where she had been nor in why she did not come back until next morning .
7 Conversely , a long period may restrict the purchaser should he wish to make changes to the vendor management team ( either because they do not live up to first impressions or because he wishes to promote them within the enlarged group ) .
8 Wilson did not write back until 1st February , 1858 .
9 Vauxhall just held on to second spot ahead of Rover with 24,376 sales to Rover 's 23,251 .
10 United have now dropped back into 15th place in the 1st division .
11 Yes , I mean it 's not the whole of the market , admittedly , and we are still encouraging our own countrymen to take a holiday in this country erm but if one 's blunt about it , yes , it 's erm a large sector of the market and one that is , one we 've got to get back to come up to last year 's levels .
12 ‘ We 're not there yet , because it 's not mathematically certain we can stay up , ’ insisted manager Ian Branfoot , whose team have now crept up to 17th place .
13 The research will seek to show how the Council , originally set up in mid-nineteenth century when medical practice was greatly different from today , has responded to the changed circumstances .
14 The story is now taken up at second hand .
15 ca n't go round till next go .
16 But they , they sailed sort of first thing in the morning and did n't come back till last thing at
17 But I do I think that would be very useful but we 've got to make sure that we get this assessment started , so , if we do n't get round to eighth year then that 's tough !
18 ‘ We did n't get out of second gear , ’ he said , ‘ but we are looking to get into third gear and , hopefully , top for next Saturday . ’
19 Money cascaded on to Henry Cecil 's filly , including one individual bet of £50,000 to £55,000 , but in the end she was even edged out of second place by Line Of Thunder .
20 Recognising that Uganda permits barter deals , General Motors Trading Corporation in Kenya , for example , negotiated the export of Isuzu buses ( assembled in bond in Kenya ) in exchange for hides and skins which it then sold on to third parties .
21 We 've never quite got on to first name terms , Emily and I. Even in our respective retirements .
22 The correct feeling must be one of turning away sufficiently and then staying turned away , holding the right side back and making the clubhead win the race , followed by the hands and with the body action then pulled through in third place .
23 Although the second- and third-years do n't officially come back until next week , Puddephat 's tutees have been called back early so they can be allocated to new people quickly .
24 The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work .
25 Something , done a robbery at nine thirty two precisely , a lady did er actually walk out of next door 's house
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