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

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1 But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning .
2 She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died .
3 The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power .
4 Nicholson was in awe of Minnelli ; this was , after all , his first experience of a mainstream director of Minnelli 's vintage , and he began to worry after the first day when it was suggested he might get his hair cut .
5 Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then
6 I do n't really want to comment on the last issue really , I think we 've probably said enough on that , er the the issue of the effect on West Yorkshire .
7 I 'm just I 'm just going to I 'm just going to talk about the second thing anyway .
8 THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth .
9 But it is going to be necessary because , by the time the later subjects come on stream , there will certainly be a need to look at the first ones again , such as maths and science .
10 The headmaster would not allow them to go into the sixth form here .
11 For the celebration , soldiers of his Army had been forbidden to shave for the last month so that their faced would more nearly represent those of warriors of old .
12 In the year of revolutionary upheaval It had seen some of its predictions fulfilled , and a movement created which , as it developed , had less and less to do with the first publication out of the underground .
13 Earlier this week , the college announced plans to extend to a second campus either in the Grassmarket or near Leith .
14 They also had former Everton player McDonald to thank in the 28th minute when he booted a Matthew Jackson header off the line .
15 They also had former Everton player McDonald to thank in the 28th minute when he booted a Matthew Jackson header off the line .
16 In fact everything was going to plan until the third day when the crowd got to him .
17 [ he ] … began to understand for the first time just how much there was in this business of being a ship 's officer .
18 ‘ With the 715 , ’ John reflects , ‘ Trace have gone for volume in a small box , with no hook-up opportunities — these seem to start on the next model up .
19 She rang again and was about to ring for a third time when the door was pulled abruptly open .
20 The loss of Simpson makes Oxford 's fight to stay in the second division even harder .
21 Obviously , it is easier for them to develop in the Second Division rather than the First Division . ’
22 Has not the time come for the Government to commit themselves unequivocally to legislate in the next Parliament so that those who wish to shop on Sunday and exercise their free choice to do so are enabled to do so by total deregulation of the law ?
23 They were lucky to survive in the 40th minute when Taylor headed against the crossbar , but Wycombe 's Steve Thompson saw a 49th-minute header was cleared off the line by Paul Raven .
24 Finally , and to return to the first century AD , although Christianity inherited much from its Judaic roots , it did not embrace the need for circumcision .
25 Crusaders had nothing of note to show in the first half apart from a drive lofted over the bar by Stephen Lynch from Burrows ' free kick in the second minute and a double save by Distillery keeper Steve Collins from Steven Livingstone in the 31st minute .
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