Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 2 | BARRY LANE produced a best-of-the-week 66 to come from eight behind to force a tie with Jose-Maria Canizares ( 74 ) in the Rome Masters at windswept Castelgandolfo yesterday , only to lose out at the fourth play-off hole . |
| 3 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 4 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 5 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 6 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
| 7 | Well there there are three there are three organizations or companies there that I think you 'd be er happier in especially going out for the first time and also er your style . |
| 8 | Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation . |
| 9 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
| 10 | These themes constantly recur up to the First World War . |
| 11 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 12 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 13 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 14 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 15 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 16 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 17 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 18 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 19 | You do n't turn the page over , just look over to the next column |
| 20 | ‘ So if you want to hear the most wretched sound ever invented , just look out for the next album … ! ’ |
| 21 | Just pass on to the next decision . |
| 22 | Less-damaging coolants than CFCs are being developed , and an international agreement signed in June 1990 will ensure that all CFCs are progressively phased out over the next few years . |
| 23 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 24 | Caballeros and Bugner were just coming up onto the 18th green to prolonged applause from the huge crowd in the three grandstands . |
| 25 | But the way he 's going he could just end up as the next Vinnie Jones . |
| 26 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 27 | You have to just get on with the next board . |
| 28 | As it turned out the final Report , published in 1889 after almost five years of investigation , did embody a number of recommendations regarding the education of deaf children in future Education Acts , thus setting out for the first time proper legislation with regard to compulsory entry , ages of admission , the length of education , the size of classes , and even that Principals/Headmasters of boarding institutions had to reside on the premises . |
| 29 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 30 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |