Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 2 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 3 | Guillimont equalised midway through the first half from the penalty spot , while Manor were unlucky not to regain the lead when the referee blew for half-time just before a Lee Clutterbuck shot crossed the line . |
| 4 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 5 | Mark Newbould scored twice in the first half for Stockton , Mark Gill added two more and Mark Briscow got the fifth after a run from halfway . |
| 6 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 7 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 8 | Spenser dwells longest on the first , revealing it filled with ‘ infinite shapes of things dispersed thin' ( II , IX , 50 ) . |
| 9 | Although the Bluebird appeared only in the last act , Shaw 's performance was widely considered the highlight of the evening 's entertainment ; and his brisees volees — little beats of the feet as he appeared to fly through the air — amazed even the Russians , on the company 's original visit to the Maryinsky . |
| 10 | Chalford suffered again during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 11 | Hereford equalised early in the second half through richard Jones . |
| 12 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 13 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 14 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 15 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 16 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 17 | Scotland has steadily declined throughout ; Northern Ireland fell steeply in the nineteenth century since when it has been relatively stable . |
| 18 | It could be argued that had England scored faster on the second day they would have won comfortably , but having controlled the game from the beginning they were desperately unlucky to lose out to the weather ; and for the fans listening at home it was especially frustrating that it was a beautiful evening in England . |
| 19 | Heather went there on the tenth of September , you know , to see Rex Cunningham . ’ |
| 20 | It was at this point that Mrs Crumwallis spoke aloud for the first time . |
| 21 | Steve Winn gave Marske the lead early in the game , with Archie Stephens equalising midway through the second half . |
| 22 | Carter and the Shah met again for the second and final time only a few weeks later , It was New Years Eve in Teheran , Carter was on a hectic world swing and Teheran was a convenient resting place between Warsaw and New Delhi . |
| 23 | Banbridge tried hard to get back into the game but Dungannon stuck again in the 75th minute when Denver beat Hanley with a neat lob to complete his hat-trick . |
| 24 | The first identifiable phase of occupation of the gravel terrace above the River Thames began early in the fifth century and consisted of a dense settlement within which three periods of rebuilding were observed . |
| 25 | Grant blazed forward in the ninth with a big right and left and Graham was down . |
| 26 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 27 | Delaney peered closer at the last one , the view spoilt by the fast upward flickering of the frame . |
| 28 | KEVIN COOMBS Norman Lamont arrives yesterday for the first meeting of the Cabinet since the Budget |
| 29 | At a press conference held on April 30 Lee acknowledged officially for the first time the existence of a CCP-led government in Beijing . |
| 30 | Rosenthal then restored Liverpool 's advantage with a stinging shot in the 44th minute before Wimbledon replied again in the 65th minute when Clarke converted another Miller cross . |