Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 2 | ‘ We managed to shepherd five down at the second attempt but one straggler broke free . |
| 3 | Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long . |
| 4 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 5 | So we see that if you have a school that goes up to the ninth grade , the Ministry covers the costs up to the sixth grade but the other years are paid for by parents . |
| 6 | Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game . |
| 7 | there was an appeal for a penalty late on in the 2nd half but it was turned doen . |
| 8 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |
| 9 | Stevie Gallagher 's shot was brilliantly saved by Andy Blackwood as Dunmurry came back in the second half but the visitors went two ahead through a penalty by Andy McMenamin and the cross from the right was turned in by Gareth Healey for the third with eight minutes left . |
| 10 | The tests are due to be carried out over the next fortnight but parents will face a six-week wait for the results . |
| 11 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |