Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 2 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 3 | the water got up to the second step from the top , but , when , instead of turning right into my road if you 'd keep straight on |
| 4 | It was non-stop activity as one event moved on to the next , together with a feast of fizzy drinks , buckets of ice cream , crisps and many balloons . |
| 5 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 6 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 7 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 8 | Crosby-born Shirli-Ann Siddall put up a courageous fight against third seed Mary Joe Fernandez , but the French Open finalist edged through to the second round with a 6–4 7–5 victory . |
| 9 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 10 | Only Chelsea 's £105,000 bill in 1991 for payments to former captain Graham Roberts tops the penalty dished out to the Third Division promotion-chasers yesterday . |
| 11 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 12 | The chapel went back to the thirteenth century ; in the Restoration of Charles II Archbishop Frewen gave the house a façade to the river and built a magnificent dining room ; and during the eighteenth century Archbishop Drummond added a Gothic gatehouse and made the surround a charming bit of eighteenth-century Gothic . |
| 13 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
| 14 | Ian Woosnam is the other seed sent through to the second stage . |