Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their eyes open around the ninth day . |
| 2 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 3 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 4 | Moreover , its attempts to weed out the next Barlow Clowes are not considered impressive . |
| 5 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
| 6 | His spectacular saves kept out the first division leaders , Manchester United , in a thrilling Rumbelow 's Cup semi-final at a packed Ayresome Park . |
| 7 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 8 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 9 | Will then organise conference at which present problems can be cleared and principles laid down The next day , 22 May , AFHQ replied to Eighth Army [ KP 22 ] ] : " Policy discussions on questions indicated your U 128 now being considered this HQ . |
| 10 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 11 | Dissension among France 's enemies broke up the Second Coalition , though not before Russia 's most revered commander , Suvorov , had temporarily driven the French from northern Italy and conducted a legendary retreat through the Swiss Alps . |
| 12 | We have even seen lecturers complete their lectures and leave the room while the students have had to sit for another few minutes taking down the last load from the blackboard ! |
| 13 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 14 | Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 . |
| 15 | Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years . |
| 16 | If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items . |
| 17 | Brian Wisenden and Miles Keenleyside , of the University of Western Ontario , have spent the past two years studying the convict cichlid Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum ( named for its distinctive stripes ) , a species already known to have the common cichlid habit of forming monogamous pairs to bring up the next generation . |
| 18 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 19 | Six candles went out the first time , the remaining three the second time . |