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

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1 If you attempt to pass the SPR on for the seventh time or to the same user twice , LIFESPAN will display an error message and you will not be allowed to pass it on .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come
8 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 " .
9 ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Kolchinsky sat down on the second chair and handed Philpott a brown packet .
13 Each person transmits culture down to the next generation and out through his or her network of relationships .
14 She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny .
15 So that they float down to the next district and you do n't have to report them ? ’
16 So that they floated down to the next district and they would n't have to bother . ’
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 First the St Sebastian triptych , all finished , down to the last arrowhead and gobbet of blood .
20 So you go along to the next D and there 's no Os there , so you come down , D , no Os , so you keep going along the lines and every time you get to a D you stop
21 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 .
22 It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered .
23 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 .
24 ‘ We managed to shepherd five down at the second attempt but one straggler broke free .
25 He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill .
26 I 've got it I 've got it at home I can bring it in at the next meeting or whatever .
27 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 .
28 Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield .
29 Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long .
30 Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers .
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