Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 2 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 3 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 4 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 5 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 6 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't tempt me , ’ she said with a wry laugh , and picked up the next file . |
| 8 | After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies . |
| 9 | When the selected pile alone remained , he switched on a powerful reading spotlamp above the table , took a jeweller 's loupe from his pocket , a pair of tweezers in his right hand , and held up the first stone to the light . |
| 10 | Being obliged to earn a living without intermission , Jane had no time to pick and choose , but snapped up the first offer — on a woman 's magazine . |