Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Railways still in a mess after the air raids — they were so delayed they missed the last ferry connection . |
| 2 | Take a rest and try again — it is amazing how much better you do the second time around . |
| 3 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 4 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |
| 5 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
| 6 | No sooner had we caught the first heady whiff of the East and altered the chemistry of our food with it than we made a quantum leap in our cultural and artistic range as well . |
| 7 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
| 8 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 9 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 10 | Please could you also let me have the last two cheques debited to the account . |
| 11 | What happens now do we try the next all play ? |
| 12 | They do n't even know who built the first engine ? |
| 13 | Well d' ya remember the first party we had ? |
| 14 | Please help them go the last mile , by sending as much as you can . |
| 15 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |
| 16 | ( g ) The notes are also useful for the preparation of any report on title that may be required for your client 's bank , building society or other mortgagee , the form of which sometimes requires you to state the last purchase price , etc. ( h ) Your notes on title will help you deal with any possible requisitions by the Land Registry and will also indicate at a glance deeds containing restrictive covenants , easements or plans , which should be retained after registration as giving fuller information and exact wording on matters of possible dispute . |
| 17 | She would stay until the first intermission , then leave him to watch the last complete performance alone . |
| 18 | These arguments then lead us to support the third of the options for change set out in the 1992 Green Paper . |
| 19 | In fact , she would have ideally wanted them to spend the next day and a half in bed together , and hang the consequences . |
| 20 | It certainly makes me regard the next car commercial with a new pair of eyes . |