Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 2 | I expect further applications to come in during the next year and , with time , a growing number of applications as the benefits are seen to come through . |
| 3 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 4 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 5 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 6 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 7 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 8 | Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory . |
| 9 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 10 | Kolchinsky sat down on the second chair and handed Philpott a brown packet . |
| 11 | Each person transmits culture down to the next generation and out through his or her network of relationships . |
| 12 | She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny . |
| 13 | So that they float down to the next district and you do n't have to report them ? ’ |
| 14 | So that they floated down to the next district and they would n't have to bother . ’ |
| 15 | If you were designing the ultimate holiday resort for Club 18–30 , you would copy San Antonio right down to the last bar and grain of sand . |
| 16 | First the St Sebastian triptych , all finished , down to the last arrowhead and gobbet of blood . |
| 17 | People were coming out from Palm Sunday Mass at the church of Ognissanti , pausing to chat to families going in to the last service and then passing under his window carrying sprays of olive leaves . |
| 18 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 19 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 20 | Every September we have the small ad hoc Cabinet committee known as the ‘ Star Chamber ’ [ MISC 62 ] in which Lord Whitelaw sits down and tries to bang heads together , and then the Prime Minister comes in at the last minute and bangs heads together even more . |
| 21 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 22 | Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers . |
| 23 | Or Jagger would come over from the next hotel and we 'd have late night ‘ looning ’ sessions , and then Angie and I would go off again with Zowie . |
| 24 | We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge . |
| 25 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 26 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 27 | From 1981 the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome has contributed material from its bibliographical and photographic archives , expanding the scope of the Census through to the mid-sixteenth century and to include architecture . |
| 28 | Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond . |
| 29 | Carry over : Try not to carry part of a sentence over to the next page and if at all possible leave paragraphs intact as well . |
| 30 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |