Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 2 | And so generally buy the first thing that actually fits . |
| 3 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 4 | I I 've only ever seen the first film of it . |
| 5 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 6 | The reaction to female ministers is a prime example of how the Church is only now entering the 20th Century kicking and screaming . |
| 7 | Because the leaflets are the enquiries are going to be answered today because only today did the second leaflet come . |
| 8 | In retrospect , this may have been a deliberate gimmick as she so embarrassingly outclassed the first half 's performances by The Bruvvers , Chris Montez , Len Barry and Johnny Tillotson . |
| 9 | However , as we shall see , in other modes , because does not necessarily introduce the first event . |
| 10 | In the result , the proceeds from that sale were not enough to discharge the first mortgage , let alone the subsequent ones . |
| 11 | However it just so happens the last time an election was n't on a Thursday was in er I think it was nineteen thirty one when it was held on a Tuesday . |
| 12 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 13 | The government not only gave the second TV channel to the BBC but slapped the excess profits levy onto ITV . |
| 14 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 15 | They not only allowed the third party an action which would have been impossible at civil law , but also permitted specific performance . |
| 16 | They have not long entered the twentieth century and in many ways still live in the past . |
| 17 | It contains allegations which do not directly involve the third defendant . |
| 18 | As Geoffrey le Bel said in the preamble to one of his charters , ‘ whatever happens at one point of time will scarcely ever reach the next generation in a reliable and true account unless it is committed to writing . ’ |
| 19 | When one has the misfortune to make war in the interior of one 's own country , pure strategy can not always have the last word . |
| 20 | In these circumstances , as de Thomasson remarks , ‘ pure strategy can not always have the last word ’ Finally , could the nation morally survive the shock of losing Verdun , with all its legendary mystique ? |
| 21 | In 1963 ( I believe ) was appointed Director of the Communication research Centre , and soon after became the first Professor of Linguistics at U.C.L. ( as I soon came to know him ) was a charismatic teacher and delightfully friendly person , and I benefitted greatly from close contact with him in 1963–4 , when he was Director of the Communication Research Centre , and I was Assistant Director . |
| 22 | The journey was long but pleasant , although I did not really enjoy the last leg from Kuala Lumpur to Perth . |
| 23 | In the morning Miss Honey said to them , ‘ One or two of you did not particularly enjoy the last occasion when the Headmistress took the class , so let us all try to be especially careful and clever today . |
| 24 | I 'm not even taking the next game for granted . |
| 25 | Erm the constant frequency generator is not actually delaying the first flight , the , the first aircraft will not have a constant frequency generator on board it . |
| 26 | Stephen was already mentally tackling the next task in a crowded schedule , riffling through the papers on his desk . |
| 27 | I was still gingerly buffing the first sentence |
| 28 | Like Racine , he creates a terrible sense of the screw turning tighter with every scene — you end up positively dreading the next entrance because of the terrible things you know the characters are going to say . |
| 29 | The transliteration of the original with qwt , in line 3 , reasonably accurately represents the first letter ( which might also be represented as a figure nine if nine has a straight back stroke ) . |
| 30 | have to pass them round and mark them instantly then start the next section . |