Example sentences of "[num ord] go [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ponty skipper Nigel Bezani was first to go for a high tackle in which he elbowed centre John Apsee , but the Bridgend man admitted : ‘ I was surprised he was sent off . ’
2 To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars .
3 Phillips was first to go after an off-the-ball incident that escaped the attention of most people in the ground .
4 " Very well ; but , as we are going to the islands where there is such a darkness that a spoon might stand up in it , we must first go to the bright home of the sun and ask for one of his rays . "
5 I first go through the odd numbers in a seemingly random fashion 1 , 5,3,7 , 11 , 9 and then downwards with the even numbers 12 , 8 , 10 , 6,2,4 .
6 My hair jumps as I first go into the deep end
7 Unfortunately it is a very barren group , and when I first went to the southern hemisphere I had difficulty in identifying the pole star , Sigma Octantis , which is only of magnitude 5.5 , and is none too easy to see with the naked eye unless the sky is really dark and clear .
8 It next goes to a small sample of the real consumers for testing .
9 When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room .
10 They had last gone through the pointless business in the visitors ' room of a police station .
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