Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend . |
| 2 | In an interview with William Hardcastle on BBC Radio 4 's ‘ The World This Weekend ’ , the text of which was published in the Irish News on 7 October , Craig introduced two themes which were to be repeated over and over during the next few days . |
| 3 | It really is not necessary to get bored with eating the same foods over and over during the next four weeks . |
| 4 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 5 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |
| 6 | No , it 's it 's used it 's used in situations where an abbreviation can be made , or er , er , erm , an abstract symbol can be made , but again , this this was used normally in print , even in printing of novels and sermons and erm , and important documents , right up , u you know , up and well into the nineteenth century , before it was considered that that was not formal enough , and that the word and had to be written out formally Are there any words in this section which you ca n't find a modern English version of easily ? |
| 7 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 8 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 9 | For a moment she had lain stunned , then had vowed to herself she would be out and away by the next morning . |
| 10 | The piston itself is a rectangular hardwood board 15½ × 8 × ¾in , which moves back and forth in the first chamber , pushed ( or pulled ) by two ½in rods which extend through one end of the bellows and are joined on the outside by a handle . |