Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1	But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage .
2	They 'll all come off in the first wash .
3	A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney .
4	At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half .
5	No doubt one could find some of that ilk in the Labour party , but I am sorry to tell Ministers , who greatly outnumber their indians seated behind them , that defence will not figure prominently in the next general election .
6	( A couple of drunks do eventually square up in the third base bleachers , but by Stamford Bridge standards it is almost a mating ritual ) .
7	His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division .
8	But its overall role as a credible world community of faith and love , a body that can be ignored by no one , a living tradition that combines humanity and the most sophisticated rational understanding with divinity and mystical insight , will simply dwindle away in the twenty-first century , leaving the Church as a narrowing fellowship upon the margins of history .
9	Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath .
10	To make sure that he does n't fade again in the second part of the season , Zeelenberg 's pre-season training regime has been a lot tougher .
11	‘ If Sir Henry does n't come out in the next quarter of an hour , the path will be covered by the fog .
12	Well he , he did n't play well in the second half though did he ?
13	But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century .

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