Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 2 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 3 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 4 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 5 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 6 | The series was alight — only for it to be thoroughly dampened in Guyana when relentless rain washed out the second Test completely , for only the fifth time in Test history . |
| 7 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 8 | Kapil had a frustrating day yesterday as a light drizzle washed out the fourth day 's play in India 's first Test against South Africa in Durban . |
| 9 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 10 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 11 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 12 | Indeed , in November , 1915 , American radio engineers on the tower picked up the first broadcast voices beamed across the Atlantic from Arlington , Virginia . |
| 13 | The chief rubbed out the seventh mark in the earth ; at the look on his face , Kit did not press his demand . |
| 14 | And Per Tjerssen , the founder , had impoverished his life , his family , until his Spiderglass Company put out the first shoots towards immortality . |