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 . |