Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [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 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 3 | He quickly ran over to the first hangar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … . ’ |
| 6 | You know and it even went through to the next floor you know into the bedroom like . |
| 7 | The lift halted at the twelfth floor for the girls to get out , then whispered on towards the fifteenth . |
| 8 | He ordered the driver and two officers to get out … and then drove off with the third towards London . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He introduced Whitlock and Sabrina to Bailey who then sat down on the second black leather sofa and took a cigar from his pocket . |
| 13 | We therefore moved over to the second limb of the permanency strategy , the strategy of placement in substitute new families preferably for adoption . |
| 14 | 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 . |