Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [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 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 4 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 5 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 6 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 7 | Now to move on to the next stage of the argument . |
| 8 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |