Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
2 | on for the first time yesterday |
3 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |
4 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
5 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
6 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
7 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
8 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
9 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
10 | Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD . |
11 | If you could just turn over to the next card now Bill . |
12 | If you 've got signs on the main line saying traffic point , traffic censors ahead , you 're gon na have people saying oh sod that I 'll get off at the next junction instead |
13 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
14 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
15 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
16 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
17 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
18 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
19 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
20 | But if your item weighs a half a kilo , we 'll round it up to the first kilo so that 's any valid for fifteen pounds . |
21 | The Pompeian house does , of course , only depict the Roman home of up to the first century A.D. and in later years , as can be seen at Ostia , the plan was developed . |
22 | At school , you start off , you integrate with everybody right up to the third year so that , in the third year or the fourth year , your friends or who you know as friends , they might call you a ‘ black bastard ’ . |
23 | Well full details of most of these games coming up over the next hour here on Talking Sport , now though the leading local results : League division two ; Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil ; the Beezer Homes League southern division ; Witney one , Erith and Belvedere nil ; the Vauxhall League division two south ; Harefield two , Abingdon Town two ; the South Midland League premier division ; Langford one , Thame two ; the O'Brien Trophy ; Tring three , Oxford City one ; the Hellenic League premier cup ; Banbury one , Carterton two ; Bicester two , Milton nil ; Didcot one , Almondsbury nil ; Wantage nil , Bishops Cleve one ; the premier division ; Hounslow three , Headington Amateurs one ; Swindon Athletic one , Abingdon United nil ; the Combination League ; Portsmouth Reserves four , Oxford United Reserves two ; and the south-east Counties League ; Oxford United one , Swindon nil ; now for the classified football results , here 's Headley Feast . |
24 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
25 | Science clambered out of the 19th century more respected than anything else around . |
26 | ‘ Gary showed great courage in coming back in the second half even though the injury was very painful . ’ |
27 | A memo by a lieutenant-colonel on the staff ( whose signature is illegible ) to the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ gives an insight into what was in the pipeline for L Detachment , ‘ which went out on the last operation hurriedly and ill organised . |
28 | He says I 'd like to get this technology out to the third world as quickly as possible . |
29 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
30 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |