Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] on [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Chelmsford 's confidence was dented , a missing a chance to go one up on the 12th and then losing the next two holes as hope of taking the trophy back to the Widford clubhouse evaporated .
2 And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known .
3 But I do n't think it 's fair to take it out on the next person .
4 My master 's plan was so successful that he arranged to show me again on the next market day .
5 You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’
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