Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’
2 On about the third day there was a bit of excited chatter between himself and Jim Thom ( the manager ) on the subject of obtaining a £100 Scottish banknote .
3 The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects .
4 When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss .
5 Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual .
6 We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty .
7 I walked in at the first door I saw .
8 If you move through into the next room you 'll find the area you 're to work .
9 The first one will keep the rope taut as you move offstage and run round the back and take over from the second helper who has been keeping the ‘ load ’ end taut .
10 And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there .
11 It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her .
12 You know and it even went through to the next floor you know into the bedroom like .
13 We 're ready we believe to move forward from delivering primarily the solutions through to the next stage which is what we 've termed enterprise-wide client server .
14 I was one of 15 who got through to the third stage which is a five day winter course .
15 Over to the next stone she went , boldly .
16 On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents .
17 I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection .
18 I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’
19 Up to the eleventh hour he would n't go .
20 The nucleotide sequence of the left end of fragment RO , up to the first Xba I site , has been previously reported ( 20 ) .
21 but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health
22 But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further .
23 The real tussle was going on within the fourth dimension itself — the dimension of time — between ITN and BBC .
24 He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in .
25 the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good .
26 Yeah , I know he 's admitted it already that does n't mean we 're not gon na get you back for the first time you fucking did it !
27 As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door .
28 But Jones said : ‘ He was moping around in training this morning whether it was because he was left out of the first team I 'm not sure .
29 We took his four- poster bed down that he wanted taking down that he cherished for some peculiar reason , and then we moved all the other bits of furniture , and as we w were sort of getting most of the furniture out of the first bedroom he said Do n't forget the loft will you ?
30 She was suddenly aware of approaching hurried footsteps , and scurried back into the last room she had passed , which was n't locked and turned out to be a storeroom for spare cables and bulbs for the lighting system .
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