Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Dissent in the county nonetheless survived powerfully through the eighteenth century in the persons of Phillip Doddridge and his followers .
3 He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat .
4 The visitors deservedly went ahead in the 19th minute when Gary Blissett fired home from 12 yards .
5 He quickly ran over to the first hangar .
6 I nearly crashed twice in the first lap .
7 His departure , combined with those of Chris Kearney and Jason Fogerty who both fouled out in the last five minutes , proved crucial to the outcome .
8 They nearly went ahead in the 13th minute .
9 And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time .
10 The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin .
11 The inclusion of Butler ( Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons ) was typical : omitted from the original membership he simply turned up to the first meeting , according to Hugh Thomas , ‘ and of course was allowed to stay … . ’
12 You know and it even went through to the next floor you know into the bedroom like .
13 The lift halted at the twelfth floor for the girls to get out , then whispered on towards the fifteenth .
14 He ordered the driver and two officers to get out … and then drove off with the third towards London .
15 Blood glucose concentration was held at 5 mmol/l for 40 minutes by simultaneous infusion of 20% glucose ( Baxter Health Care , Thetford , Norfolk ) and then reduced stepwise over the next 220 minutes to a low of 2 mmol/l ; then the concentration was restored to 5 mmol/l and held there until 260 minutes .
16 England then pulled away over the last three ends to increase their advantage to 113-106 .
17 The older industrial regions of the North , North-West , and Yorkshire and Humberside enhanced their population shares during the nineteenth century then fell back in the twentieth .
18 Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window .
19 I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter .
20 And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well .
21 The leading group became 16 riders at Alsager , after 30 miles , and then split again on the first big climb of the day 15 miles later .
22 He introduced Whitlock and Sabrina to Bailey who then sat down on the second black leather sofa and took a cigar from his pocket .
23 We therefore moved over to the second limb of the permanency strategy , the strategy of placement in substitute new families preferably for adoption .
24 Well , actually I left school , I think it was the either tenth or eleventh of November nineteen thirty one and I went straight into the Transport Department and I think my record will show that I actually started there on the twelfth of November nineteen thirty one .
25 Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years .
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